Ensuring Progress in Primary Care -- What Can Health Care Reform Realistically Accomplish?

doi:10.1056/NEJMp0909345

Volume 361:e43		November 12, 2009		Number 20

Ensuring Progress in Primary Care — What Can Health Care Reform Realistically Accomplish?

Dave A. Chokshi, M.D.

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In the current political environment, forging consensus on healthcare reform has proven challenging. Yet the value of a strengthenedprimary care infrastructure is one apparent zone of agreementamong policymakers. Leading professional societies have convergedupon principles for restructuring primary health care in theirsupport of the patient-centered medical home (see Table 1).¹In addition to this reorganization of primary care delivery,experts have recommended three other areas of improvement: paymentreform, augmentation of the primary care workforce, and bettertracking of care coordination between primary care physiciansand specialists.²^,³

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Table 1. Timeline of Consensus Development on the Medical Home . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center — both in Boston.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0909345) was published on October 28, 2009, at NEJM.org.