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Medical home

The medical home,[1] also known as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider[2] to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes.[3][4] It is described in the "Joint Principles" (see below) as "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults."[5]

The provision of medical homes is intended to allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health.[6][7][8][9]

The "Joint Principles" that popularly define a PCMH were established through the efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) in 2007.[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology and appropriately-trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their functions devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage further coordination.[10][11][page needed]

  1. ^ What is a Patient Centered Medical Home? An overview to Patient Centered Medical Homes for patients from the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). (primary source)
  2. ^ "H-160.919 Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home". American Medical Association Policy Finder. The American Medical Association. Archived from the original on 9 June 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Understanding the PCMH". American College of Physicians. Archived from the original on 2012-01-14. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Patient-Centered Medical Home, Definition of". American Academy of Family Physicians. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
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  10. ^ a b Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. "Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home". Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  11. ^ Committee on the Future of Primary Care, Institute of Medicine (1996). Donaldson, Molla S.; Yordy, Karl D.; Lohr, Kathleen N.; Vanselow, Neal A. (eds.). Primary Care: America's Health in a New Era. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/5152. ISBN 978-0-309-05399-0. PMID 25121221.

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