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Sustaining the Medical Home In analyzing national claims data, the PROMETHEUS Payment developers found that a significant percentage of total cost of care spent today on six chronic diseases is attributable to "Potentially Avoidable Complications."	Reports	05/08/2009
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients Policy-makers and insurers are searching for strategies to improve care coordination and reinvigorate primary care as a critical component of reforming the U.S. health care system. Published In: Annals of Internal Medicine	Journal articles	02/17/2009
Scope of Care Coordination Daunting for Physicians Treating Medicare Patients Typical primary care physician must coordinate care with 229 other physicians in 117 practices.	News releases	02/17/2009
An Electronic Linkage System for Health Behavior Counseling (from Redesigning Primary Care Practice to Incorporate Health Behavior Change) A feasibility evaluation examines the effects of an electronic linkage system (eLinkS) on health behavior counseling rates. Published In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Supplement)	Journal articles	02/05/2009
Patient Experiences with Coordination of Care This article addresses the extent to which patients' health care is coordinated between primary care physicians and specialists. Published In: Journal of General Internal Medicine (Online)	Journal articles	01/12/2009
PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 1 The inaugural issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment's newsletter provides brief updates on the program's recent achievements.	Reports	12/16/2008
Making Medical Homes Work This policy perspective identifies operational issues that can make or break medical homes-a physician practice committed to organizing and coordinating care based on patients' needs and priorities. Published In: Policy Perspective: Insights into Health Policy Issues	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	12/11/2008
Practice-Level Approaches for Behavioral Counseling and Patient Health Behaviors (from Redesigning Primary Care Practice to Incorporate Health Behavior Change) Primary care practices that had tools for identifying unhealthy patients, such as health-risk assessment surveys and linking strategies for physical activity counseling, were more likely to have patients who reported exercising regularly. Published In: American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Supplement)	Journal articles	12/09/2008
National Priorities Partnership Sets Action Agenda to Improve Health Care Convened by NQF and supported by RWJF, the Partnership released an action agenda to improve the quality and safety of health care. Published In: test	Stories and articles	11/21/2008
Measuring the Medical Home Infrastructure in Large Medical Groups Using data from the 2006-2007 National Study of Physician Organizations, the authors examine the extent of adoption of medical home infrastructure components among large primary care and multispecialty medical groups and their association with medical group size and... Published In: Health Affairs	Journal articles	09/09/2008

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