Abstract Background The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is a framework developed to redesign
care delivery for individuals living with chronic diseases in primary care. The CCM and its …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are an increasingly used
system-redesign strategy for improving access to and quality of chronic illness care. We …

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that for adults with prediabetes or
type 2 diabetes, medical nutrition therapy (MNT) provided by registered dietitian nutritionists …

Background: Compared with white persons, African Americans have a greater incidence of
diabetes, decreased control, and higher rates of microvascular complications. A peer …

Integrated multidisciplinary care is difficult to achieve between specialist clinical services
and primary care practitioners, but should improve outcomes for patients with chronic and/or …

Background: Group medical visits, whereby health care professionals meet with groups of
patients who have the same disease, have been introduced in primary care as a way to …

Abstract Background Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are doctor-patient visits in which
groups of patients are seen by one or more health care providers in a concurrent session …

Purpose To assess whether VA MEDIC-E (Veterans Affairs Multi-disciplinary Education and
Diabetes Intervention for Cardiac risk reduction [EM DASH] Extended for 6 months), a …

Purpose: To describe the roles of nurse practitioners (NPs) in a novel model of healthcare
delivery for patients with chronic disease: shared medical appointments (SMAs)/group visits …

The most successful health care systems offer ready access to high-quality primary care—an
approach that is embedded in the fundamental design of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care …