Associations of care continuity and care coordination with the overuse of healthcare services: a nationwide population-based study
Guann-Ming Chang, Hsien-Yen Chang, Wen-Yu Kuo, Yu-Chi Tung · 2024
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Guann-Ming Chang and co-authors examine whether steady, well-linked care cuts wasteful medical services, in this 2024 nationwide study from Taiwan. Seeing the same doctor over time is called continuity, while how closely a patient's doctors share work is called coordination. Past work linked each one to less overuse on its own. The team compared their relative weight using insurance data.
They studied about 1.46 million people sampled from Taiwan's national insurance rolls in 2015. Overuse was counted across eighteen services classed as low value. People with high continuity had notably lower odds of overuse than the middle group. High coordination also linked to lower overuse, by a smaller margin. The authors say helping patients keep steady, connected care may trim low-value services.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Guann-Ming Chang, Hsien-Yen Chang, Wen-Yu Kuo, Yu-Chi Tung |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |