It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them
Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Cost Reductions Limited to Complex Patients
From 2005 to 2009, improved clinical practice systems were associated with cost reductions only for medically complex patients.
Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization
Patients who often change medical groups have the highest healthcare costs. The improved coordination of an accountable care organization may reduce those costs.
Diabetes Care Quality: Insurance, Health Plan, and Physician Group Contributions
Reporting physician group performance in addition to health plan performance may stimulate greater improvement in diabetes care.
Is Integration in Large Medical Groups Associated With Quality?
Integrated care systems allegedly provide better care. This study of 97 large medical groups nationally provides suggestive evidence that this may be true.
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Preferences Regarding Advance Directives Among Patients of a Managed Care Organization
Adults 20 years or older were surveyed regarding advance directives (ADs); one third had completed an AD. Subjects were comfortable with provider initiation of the topic.
Practice Systems Are Associated With High-quality Care for Diabetes
The Physician Practice Connections-Readiness Survey can identify practice systems that are associated with higher rates of quality diabetes care.
Young Adult Smokers: Are They Different?
Use of Practice System Tools by Medical Groups for Depression
Practice Systems for Chronic Care: Frequency and Dependence on an Electronic Medical Record
