Despite rising costs, health care often is of poor quality. 1-4 Current solutions to improving
quality may do more harm than good if they focus more on diseases than on people. 2, 5-9 …

Foreword The editors asked several experts to share their perspectives on the crisis in US
primary care. Their articles, which address this crisis from six different angles, follow. We …

Our experiences studying exemplar primary care practices, and our work assisting other
practices to become more patient centered, led to a formulation of the essential elements of …

In Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology, Barbara Starfield
presents evidence of the positive impact of primary care on the health of populations and …

QUALITY health care for all Americans has been viewed as an individual right rather than a
privilege. Today, many Americans lack access to an ongoing source of primary care and …

Despite contentious debate over the new national health care reform law, there is an
emerging consensus that strengthening primary care will improve health outcomes and …

Three decades ago, a renaissance helped create the foundations of primary care as we
know it today. In recent years, however, new challenges have confronted primary care. We …

Primary Care — Will It Survive? Page 1 Perspective The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of
MEDICINE august 31, 2006 n engl j med 355;9 www.nejm.org august 31, 2006 861 a confluence …

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are
health care professionals in your survey. Primary Care fills this gap with a detailed definition …

The Shattuck Lecture is delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical
Society. In the 111th lecture, Dr. Barbara McNeil discusses a core problem in health policy …