MEDICAL HOME GAINS PROMINENCE WITH AAFP OVERSIGHT

Coordinating the medical home with hospitalist care.

THE MEDICAL HOME The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth, and adults.1 PCMH facilitates partnerships with individual patients, their personal physicians, and family. In pediatrics, PCMH is usually referred to as the Patient and Family Centered Medical Home, or just the Medical Home (MH). The MH was named over 40 years a...

American medical home runs.

Four primary care sites in the United States constitute "medical home runs" because their patients incur 15-20 percent less (risk-adjusted) total health care spending per year than patients treated by regional peers, without evidence of reduced quality. The sites achieved this result in a U.S. payment environment that usually penalizes physicians who invest to prevent costly near-term health cr...

Patient-Centered Medical Home

Medical anthropology at home.

Modelling asymmetric similarity with prominence.

This paper introduces and discusses a geometrically based model, the relative prominence model, which is inspired by Tversky's finding that a factor behind asymmetric similarity seems to be 'relative prominence'. The model proposes that the experienced directed similarity from I to J is proportional to some symmetric similarity measure between I and J, and the quotient between the 'prominences'...