How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?

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How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?

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BACKGROUND Continuity of care is connected, coherent, and consistent care in relation to the patients’ health care needs and personal circumstances (Haggerty, Roberge, Freeman and Beaulieu, 2013). Continuity has been associated with improved health care, and is greatest when the patient establishes an ongoing relationship with a health care provider (Nies and McEwan, 2007). It is the key component to quality of care, and is becoming increasingly important for complex and vulnerable patients w...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

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Brebner, Tracy

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6392

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New Zealand / patients / rural / continuity of care / turnover / perspectives / interviews / Health sciences / Nursing / Acute care

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