The Patient and Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Patient-centered medical homes: primer for pharmacists.

OBJECTIVE To provide a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) primer for pharmacists, including basic background information, key terminology, and examples of success stories. DATA SOURCES PCMH literature and resources obtained through search strategies by authors including but not limited to PubMed and Google Scholar. SUMMARY PCMHs are a potential means of achieving cost reduction in health ...

Psychologists in Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs)

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an increasingly common model of health care delivery with many exciting opportunities for psychologists. The PCMH reflects a philosophy and model of care that is highly consistent with psychological science and practice. It strives to provide patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible, and quality and safetyoriented health ca...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the care principles.

(Fam Med 2007;39(10):697-9.) The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model for providing patients with the services they need. It also reflects our core values, but the vision of the PCMH can seem rather abstract and perhaps unrealistic and unattainable. Is it really possible to create a PCMH? What do the principles (personal physician, physician-directed medical practice, whole-person or...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the clerkship initiative.

Review of patient-reported experience within Patient-Centered Medical Homes: insights for Australian Health Care Homes.

Understanding patient experience is necessary to advance the patient-centred approach to health service delivery. Australia's primary healthcare model, the 'Health Care Home', is based on the 'Patient-Centered Medical Home' (PCMH) model developed in the United States. Both these models aim to improve patient experience; however, the majority of existing PCMH model evaluations have focussed on f...