No: Discontinuity can improve patient care
Western Journal of MedicinePublished 1 July 2001Open access
Robert M. Wachter
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The hospitalist movement, in which a separate physician assumes the role of providing general hospital care in place of primary care physicians, and the importance of advantageous and purposeful discontinuities is argued, shows that within-hospital continuity improves when hospitalists are involved.
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MedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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