Evidence-Based Care Across The Continuum: Its Time Is (Finally) Now

Healthcare industry leaders are likely to relate to einstein’s observation. achieving optimal patient outcomes by planning and coordinating clinical care across the entire continuum always has been a challenge. Nothing new about it.

A confluence of industry forces, however, is creating an increased sense of urgency for reaching this long-standing goal. Understanding why there is a need for change is easy; it’s the “how” that’s difficult.

Indeed, the real challenge for healthcare leaders rests in navigating the myriad challenges associated with the move toward the delivery of standardized evidence-based healthcare across the continuum of care. The results, however, are apt to be well worth the effort as the utilization of best practices across the continuum is expected to exponentially result in better patient outcomes, improved processes, and reduced costs.

A Long Held Care Concern

Continuity of care refers to the degree that care is coherent and linked. The value associated with coordinating care across the continuum has been recognized for quite some time. In fact, a British Medical Journal literature review that examined publications dated from 1996 to 2001 identified 2,439 unique documents related to the subject. (1)

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