Coordinating the medical home with hospitalist care.
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چکیده
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 ago as a way to maintain centralized medical records of children and has evolved over the years to the current concept. The MH should be accessible, continuous, comprehensive, patientand family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, community-based and culturally effective.2–4 The principles of the MH are:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Hospital pediatrics
دوره 2 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012