Patient-centered medical homes

摘要

As someone deeply involved in the process of achieving recognition as a patient-centered medical home for a clinic in the consortium that Robin Clarke and coauthors studied, I was disheartened to read their article (Mar 2012). First, the possibility that the work involved in achieving recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance may not actually result in improved health outcomes is disappointing, given the resources being expended on these efforts by community health centers and consortia nationwide.