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PCMH:Evidence and Evaluation

AHRQ Releases Early Evidence on the Patient-Centered Medical Home

A new white paper from AHRQ, Early Evidence on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH),offers concrete suggestions for improving the evidence base about the PCMH through more rigorous evaluations. It was prepared in collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research and also summarizes findings from early evaluations of the PCMH. The American Journal of Managed Care recently published a concise version of the paper. An expanded version of the white paper that provides extensive methodological details will be released in late spring 2012. Resources are included in the white paper to help strengthen future research on the PCMH and build a solid evidence base. Resources include a brief for decision makers, titled Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home, which describes the importance of effective evaluations of the PCMH and how they can be achieved. A second resource, Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?, provides further information about why evaluations of the medical home should account for clustering of patients within practices, how this can be achieved, and how large patient and practice samples should be to achieve adequate statistical power. Select to access these resources. A copy of the reprint article, Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start is available by sending an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov

PCMH:Evidence and Evaluation
Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start