With the advent of national health reform, millions more Americans are gaining access to a
health care system that is struggling to provide high-quality care at reduced costs. The …

Background: The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) describes mechanisms for
organizing primary care to provide high-quality care across the full range of individuals' …

Background Patient‐centred care is now ubiquitous in health services research, and
healthcare systems are moving ahead with patient‐centred care implementation. Yet, little is …

Funders of programs in public health and community health are increasingly concerned
about the sustainability of changes they initiate. Despite a recent increase in sustainability …

Abstract The Cardiometabolic Think Tank was convened on June 20, 2014, in Washington,
DC, as a “call to action” activity focused on defining new patient care models and …

Importance In 2010, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began implementing the
patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) …

PURPOSE This study was a systematic review with a quantitative synthesis of the literature
examining the overall effect size of practice facilitation and possible moderating factors. The …

Doctor/patient interaction has been the object of various reform efforts in Western countries
since the 1960s. It has consistently been depicted as enacting relationships of dominance or …

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is four things: 1) the fundamental tenets of
primary care: first contact access, comprehensiveness, integration/coordination, and …

Importance Interventions to transform primary care practices into medical homes are
increasingly common, but their effectiveness in improving quality and containing costs is …