Fragmented care can weaken continuity across decisions, while patients and informal carers may carry substantial integration and medication-management work between encounters.

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A systematic review of fragmented care in chronic illness documents the relevance of fragmentation to patient outcomes. A separate systematic review shows that informal carers perform substantial physical and cognitive work in medication management for people with long-term conditions.

These sources do not show that clinical specialization is harmful, that informal carers should replace clinicians, or that every fragmented-care arrangement produces poor outcomes.

Chapter 31 distinguishes specialization from fragmentation. The problem is not that clinicians answer bounded questions, but that continuity and integration can weaken across those boundaries, leaving patients and families to carry part of the connecting work.

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