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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Therefore, identifying appointments at risk of being missed is a crucial prevention strategy to optimize care quality, ensure continuity, and reduce costs. for CA, 0.85

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. We modeled the odds of 2019 patient visits being with their PCP using a binomial generalized linear mixed model with a random PCP intercept. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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