Patient-Centered Medical Home Decisionmaker Brief: Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home
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• Focus evaluations on quality, cost, and experience. • Include comparison practices. • Recognize that the PCMH is a practice-level intervention and account for clustering. • Include as many intervention practices as possible. • Be strategic in identifying the right samples of patients to answer each evaluation question. • Rethink the number of patients from whom data are collected to answer key evaluation questions.
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