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Cultivating Internal Change Agents for Medical Home Transformation
Using the Practice Transformation Facilitator (PTF) model in medical home transformation.
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4 Steps for Starting a Patient and Family Advisory Council
A cross between a focus group and an improvement team, a patient and family advisory council (PFAC) is an effective way for a healthcare facility—be it a primary care practice or a hospital—to engage customers in improving the quality of care provided. The PFAC platform enables providers and patients to work side-by-side to discuss and…
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Why and How to Include the Patient-Family Voice in a Medical Home
At a recent medical appointment, my teenage daughter and I were offered an opportunity to complete a patient experience survey. My daughter was eager to provide feedback and happily answered the questions thoughtfully. She likes that movies play in the waiting room and doesn’t like when wait times in the exam room are long. She…
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Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program Model Protocol
Recommendations and strategies to improve care for individuals with sickle cell disease and trait.
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Using Patient Navigators to Help Adults with Sickle Cell Disease Obtain a Primary Care Home
Patient navigation program aids SCD patients in overcoming barriers to adult primary care.
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Sickle cell disease pain management and the medical home
This article provides a framework of pain management within the PCMH model.
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Review of Quality Measures of the Most Integrated Health Care Settings for Children and the Need for Improved Measures: Recommendations for Initial Core Measurement Set for CHIPRA
Better measures of care integration, care coordination, and integration of mental, developmental, and physical health into a comprehensive care system are high-priority topics for measure development.
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How to Scale Up Primary Care Transformation: What We Know and What We Need to Know?
Becoming a medical home is a radical change, requiring both a new mental model for primary care and the skills and resources to accomplish it.
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Comparing medical homes for children with ADHD and asthma
For primary care to be optimally effective in addressing the needs of children with ADHD, efforts to significantly strengthen these key dimensions are needed.
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A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needs
As other disciplines have begun to profess the need for and implement aspects of medical homes for all patients, this article will likely be of great significance.
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