At its core, continuity in the context of medical care refers to seamlessly connecting patients, learners, and practitioners across time and space. Maintaining each of the types of continuity defined ...

It has become common, even fashionable, to speak of the times as disrupted. Some might even call this the cliche du jour. Of course, no one can deny that disruption describes our present condition.

Discontinuity of care puts older patients at higher risk of emergency hospitalization. Older patients who experience more discontinuity of care in general practice are at higher risk of emergency ...

Technological evolution is typically marked by gradual optimization, such as faster processors, smarter interfaces and more efficient workflows. Occasionally, a major disruption happens that ...

Immunology — though deeply experimental in everyday practice — is also a theoretical discipline. Recent advances in the understanding of innate immunity, how it is triggered and how it shares features ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these ...

Background: Antenatal corticosteroids reduce respiratory morbidity in preterm infants, but their use during late preterm gestation (34–36 weeks) is limited because their safety for longer-term child ...