Care Coordination - How can we measure it? (21) from indicators definition healthcare Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 10 min 53 sec
✓ Published: 01-Jun-2016

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Dr. Karen Kinder, Johns Hopkins University, USnnIn the definition of primary care put forward by Dr. Barbara Starfield, primary care refers those health-related needs of people “too uncommon to maintain competence and coordinates care when people receive services at other levels of care” (1) nnPatients with poorly coordinated care are likely to have more costly and lower quality health care due to factors such as excess utilization resulting from redundant investigations, potentially harmful