Medical Homes

Medical specialist attendance in nursing homes

The care in nursing homes was examined based on scientific studies. The analysis focuses on dementia and type II diabetes. There is evidence for deficits in the supply of medical specialist attendance to nursing home residents with these diseases in Germany. Compared with corresponding guidelines the medical care for nursing home residents may be too low or inadequate.

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...

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...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes in teaching practices--one strategy.