The patient-centered approach sounds like a great way to personalize care. But how does longer visits and more collaborative care change outcomes, or attitudes? How to best help those with chronic ...

At a recent symposium concerning both saving money and improving patient care, Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer stated, “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality ...

Hundreds of years ago, a Polish astronomer sparked a scientific revolution with one simple observation: The sun—not the earth—was the center of the universe. A similar revolution is happening in ...

Kenneth Bertka, MD, is a family physician and vice president of physician clinical integration at Mercy, a seven hospital and physician group system based in Toledo, Ohio. Mercy is a member of ...

Care, comfort, compassion, and consolation are as important as finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD). For some healthcare professionals, the source of such values is patient-centered care 1 ...

A 12-month evaluation of a patient-centered medical home demonstration indicated improvement in quality of care without an increase in overall costs. Baseline (2006) and 12-month (2007) measures were ...

In this study, the Patient-Centered Medical Home was associated with improvements in patients' experience with access to care but not other domains of care. Although the Patient-Centered Medical Home ...