What Do You Mean by Medical Home? (editorial)

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16 February 2016

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• The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Associations With Health Care Quality and Utilization: A 5-Year Cohort Study

Ann Intern Med. 

 Keeping up with the medical home is difficult. Researchers have published dozens of studies on medical homes over the past few years, including an article in this week's Annals by Kern and colleagues, and we can expect dozens more. To complicate matters, these studies frequently disagree with each other. Some have found that medical homes have modest or no effects, whereas others have found desirable changes in quality, utilization, and costs of care. The editorialist believes that to better understand the contribution of each new medical home study, we must first ask how the researchers defined “medical home.”

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