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Your article on practice facilitators and care managers was very accurate in terms of delineating roles and reminding us why both types of professionals are vital for transforming the way care is delivered in the US.
These professionals are critical for primary care practices - particularly smaller ones - that serve a large proportion of low-income patients.[1] These practices are often under-resourced, disen...
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Thank you to Taylor et al. for this special report that continues to expand our current understandings and conceptions of these roles in primary care. This work addresses the complex nature of developing primary care teams. Having clearer understandings of facilitator/care manager roles and how they fit into the 'whole' is vitally important.
This report also highlights some interesting points about primary c...
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article by Taylor and colleagues on the roles of practice facilitators and care managers. There has been more than 20 years of practice-based research on facilitation. Despite this I have experienced numerous occasions in my own research where questions have been raised about the differences or benefits of an external versus an internal practice facilitator as well as ambiguity about the...
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I applaud this, yet another, great article on Practice Facilitators (PFs). We have really come a long way! In 2000, marking the new millennium, the Oklahoma Physicians Resource/Research Network (OKPRN) hired its first facilitator called a Practice Enhancement Assistant (PEA). Facilitation was hardly new even back then: we borrowed heavily from the British model going back to the early 1980's. Some other networks in the U...
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