Margaret M. Love, PhD Arch G. Mainous, III, PhD Jeffery C. Talbert, PhD Gregory L. Hager, PhD Lexington, Kentucky, and Charleston, South Carolina Submitted, revised, June 1, 2000. From the Department of Family Practice (M.M.L.) and the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration (J.C.T., G.L.H.), University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (A.G.M.). This project was presented at the 27th annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, San Diego, California, November 1999. Reprint requests should be addressed to Margaret M. Love, PhD, Department of Family Practice, University of Kentucky, K302 Kentucky Clinic 0284, Lexington, KY 40536-0284. E-mail: mlove@pop.uky.edu.
The Importance of Continuity for Adult Patients with Asthma
Continuity of care matters. Particularly for patients with asthma, continuity of care with an individual provider is linked to important aspects of health care delivery, specifically physician-patient interaction. Changes in health care systems that increasingly promote discontinuity with individual physicians may be especially disruptive for patients with chronic conditions.
Acknowledgments
Our study was funded in part by the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services.
