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Incorporating Patient- and Family-Centered Care Into Practice: The PA Medical Home Initiative
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Incorporating Patient- and Family-Centered Care Into Practice: The PA Medical Home Initiative

Salini Mohanty, Nora Wells, Richard Antonelli and Renee M. Turchi
Pediatrics (Evanston), v 142(3)
01 Sep 2018
PMID: 30135086
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https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-2453View
Published, Version of Record (VoR)Maybe Open Access (Publisher Bronze) Open

Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Pediatrics Science & Technology
The medical home model is the standard of health care delivery in primary care that is used to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients by enhancing access to care, increasing patient satisfaction, and improving health outcomes.(1,2) Promoting effective partnerships between families and clinical practice teams by engaging parents as partners in their children's care ensures that families receive all the needed services by creating mechanisms for parental and/or caregiver input.(3) and embodying the quadruple aim of the health care framework (assessing patient and family experience, provider experience, reduced costs, and population health outcomes).(4) Engaging parents and/or caregivers as partners promotes patient-and family-centered care, which is associated with better health status (psychological functioning, quality of life, and symptom severity) and family functioning (cost and parents' missed work days).(1,3) Understanding experiences and models of engaging parents and/or caregivers in clinical practice can be useful to pediatricians and clinical providers.

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