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Defining And Measuring The Patient-Centered Medical Home., Kurt C Stange, Paul A Nutting, William L Miller, Carlos R Jaén, Benjamin F Crabtree, Susan A Flocke, James M Gill
Defining And Measuring The Patient-Centered Medical Home., Kurt C Stange, Paul A Nutting, William L Miller, Carlos R Jaén, Benjamin F Crabtree, Susan A Flocke, James M Gill
Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is four things: 1) the fundamental tenets of primary care: first contact access, comprehensiveness, integration/coordination, and relationships involving sustained partnership; 2) new ways of organizing practice; 3) development of practices' internal capabilities, and 4) related health care system and reimbursement changes. All of these are focused on improving the health of whole people, families, communities and populations, and on increasing the value of healthcare. The value of the fundamental tenets of primary care is well established. This value includes higher health care quality, better whole-person and population health, lower cost and reduced inequalities compared to …