Diabetes

Quality of care not enhanced by provider continuity

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 20th, 2003

It is often assumed that continuity of care should lead to improved quality of care, especially for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus, which require significant medical management.

Contrary to expectation, however, continuity of care does not result in improved quality of care for diabetic patients, according to findings by James M. Gill, MD, MPH, and colleagues in the September/October 2003 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.

The researchers found that diabetic patients who concentrated their outpatient visits with the same healthcare provider were no more likely to have received standard monitoring tests recommended by...

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