Heare, There and All Over the Place: Defining and Measuring Continuity of Health Care

This paper was commissioned by the Canadian Health Service Reseah Foundation, the CanadianInstitute for Health Information and the Fedaral/Provincil/Territorial Advisory Committee on Health Services, as background information for a national workshop to develop measurement indicators for continuity of care. It explores the different concepts of continuity, their common themes and measurement approaches.