Recommended core measures for evaluating the patient-centered medical home: cost, utilization, and clinical quality

Recommended core measures for evaluating the patient-centered medical home: cost, utilization, and clinical quality

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Data brief (Commonwealth Fund)
Author(s):
Rosenthal, Meredith B., author
Abrams, Melinda K., author
Bitton, Asaf, author
Contributor(s):
Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
Commonwealth Fund. Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators' Collaborative, issuing body.
Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, May 2012
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Benchmarking -- methods
Patient-Centered Care -- organization & administration
Quality Assurance, Health Care
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
The patient-centered medical home has emerged as a promising solution to address the significant fragmentation, poor quality, and high costs that afflict the U.S. health care system. The medical home model includes core components of primary and patient-centered care, recent innovations in practice redesign and health information technology, and changes to the way practices and providers are paid. There are initiatives across the country testing the promise of the medical home model. However, to properly evaluate and compare results that will aid in the implementation of these and other initiatives, researchers need a standard set of core measures. This brief describes the process and recommendations of more than 75 researchers who came together to identify a core set of standardized measures to evaluate the patient-centered medical home. It focuses on two domains of medical home outcomes: cost/utilization and clinical quality.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101586574 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101586574