New Brief and White Paper from AHRQ: Complex Patients and the PCMH ► PCMH:Patient Centered

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PCMH:Patient Centered

AHRQ has produced a decisionmaker brief and white paper that discuss barriers and potential solutions for providing care to patients with complex needs within the patient-centered medical home.

The decision-maker brief, “Ensuring that Patient-Centered Medical Homes Effectively Serve Patients with Complex Health Needs,” offers specific strategies to help primary care practices, especially smaller ones, better deliver services to all patients, specifically those with the most complex health needs.

  

The white paper, “Coordinating Care for Adults with Complex Care Needs in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Challenges and Solutions,” discusses current barriers but also offers a more detailed look at strategies that are needed to help primary care practices perform as effective medical homes to coordinate such services for patients with complex care needs. Five innovative programs are profiled, and focus on serving patients well, while offering insights on ways decisionmakers and researchers can facilitate the path to primary care transformation for practices who wish to do the same.

 

You can access the brief and white paper by visiting the following links:

• Ensuring that Patient-Centered Medical Homes Effectively Serve Patients with Complex Health
• Coordinating Car for Adults with Complex Care Needs in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Challenges and Solutions

 

These and other white papers and decisionmaker briefs are available by visiting: http://www.pcmh.ahrq.gov/. You will find topics such as improving evaluations of the PCMH, care coordination, the medical neighborhood, health IT, and patient engagement, as well as a new guide for organizations that want to develop or improve a practice facilitation program for primary care quality improvement. Additionally, the website contains a searchable database of approximately 1,000 articles relating to the PCMH that is updated several times a year.

Thank you from AHRQ's Prevention and Chronic Care team. 

PCMH:Patient Centered