Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
Annals of Family Medicine
  • My alerts
Annals of Family Medicine

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Follow annalsfm on Twitter
  • Visit annalsfm on Facebook
Research ArticleOriginal Articles

A Positive Deviance Approach to Understanding Key Features to Improving Diabetes Care in the Medical Home

Robert A. Gabbay, Mark W. Friedberg, Michelle Miller-Day, Peter F. Cronholm, Alan Adelman and Eric C. Schneider
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2013, 11 (Suppl 1) S99-S107; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1473
Robert A. Gabbay
1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
MD, PhD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: rgabbay@hmc.psu.edu
Mark W. Friedberg
2RAND, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
MD, MPP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Michelle Miller-Day
3Chapman University, Orange, California
PhD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Peter F. Cronholm
4Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Center for Public Health Initiatives, and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MD, MSCE
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Alan Adelman
1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
MD, MS
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Eric C. Schneider
2RAND, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
5Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
MD, MSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Published eLetters

If you would like to comment on this article, click on Submit a Response to This article, below. We welcome your input.

Submit a Response to This Article
Compose eLetter

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Author Information
First or given name, e.g. 'Peter'.
Your last, or family, name, e.g. 'MacMoody'.
Your email address, e.g. higgs-boson@gmail.com
Your role and/or occupation, e.g. 'Orthopedic Surgeon'.
Your organization or institution (if applicable), e.g. 'Royal Free Hospital'.
Statement of Competing Interests
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.

Vertical Tabs

Jump to comment:

No eLetters have been published for this article.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

The Annals of Family Medicine: 11 (Suppl 1)
The Annals of Family Medicine: 11 (Suppl 1)
Vol. 11, Issue Suppl 1
May/June 2013
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Annals of Family Medicine.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
A Positive Deviance Approach to Understanding Key Features to Improving Diabetes Care in the Medical Home
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Annals of Family Medicine
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Annals of Family Medicine web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
14 + 1 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
A Positive Deviance Approach to Understanding Key Features to Improving Diabetes Care in the Medical Home
Robert A. Gabbay, Mark W. Friedberg, Michelle Miller-Day, Peter F. Cronholm, Alan Adelman, Eric C. Schneider
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2013, 11 (Suppl 1) S99-S107; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1473

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Get Permissions
Share
A Positive Deviance Approach to Understanding Key Features to Improving Diabetes Care in the Medical Home
Robert A. Gabbay, Mark W. Friedberg, Michelle Miller-Day, Peter F. Cronholm, Alan Adelman, Eric C. Schneider
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2013, 11 (Suppl 1) S99-S107; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1473
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • INTRODUCTION
    • METHODS
    • RESULTS
    • DISCUSSION
    • Acknowledgments
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • A qualitative positive deviance study to explore exceptionally safe care on medical wards for older people
  • Identifying positively deviant elderly medical wards using routinely collected NHS Safety Thermometer data: an observational study
  • Detecting organisational innovations leading to improved ICU outcomes: a protocol for a double-blinded national positive deviance study of critical care delivery
  • Physician and other healthcare personnel responses to hospital stroke quality of care performance feedback: a qualitative study
  • What methods are used to apply positive deviance within healthcare organisations? A systematic review
  • Supporting Patient Behavior Change: Approaches Used by Primary Care Clinicians Whose Patients Have an Increase in Activation Levels
  • Positive deviance: a different approach to achieving patient safety
  • Aiming for Ideal Care: A Proposed Framework for Cancer Quality Improvement
  • Challenges of Medical Home Transformation Reported by 118 Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Leaders
  • Context Matters: The Experience of 14 Research Teams in Systematically Reporting Contextual Factors Important for Practice Change
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Cultivating Engaged Leadership Through a Learning Collaborative: Lessons From Primary Care Renewal in Oregon Safety Net Clinics
  • Facilitators of Transforming Primary Care: A Look Under the Hood at Practice Leadership
Show more Original Articles

Similar Articles

Subjects

  • Domains of illness & health:
    • Chronic illness
  • Methods:
    • Mixed methods
  • Other research types:
    • Professional practice
  • Other topics:
    • Organizational / practice change
    • Patient-centered medical home

Keywords

  • primary care
  • quality improvement
  • patient-centered medical home
  • practice-based research
  • change
  • organizational
  • positive deviance

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Early Access
  • Plain-Language Summaries
  • Multimedia
  • Podcast
  • Articles by Type
  • Articles by Subject
  • Supplements
  • Calls for Papers

Info for

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Job Seekers
  • Media

Engage

  • E-mail Alerts
  • e-Letters (Comments)
  • RSS
  • Journal Club
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Subscribe
  • Family Medicine Careers

About

  • About Us
  • Editorial Board & Staff
  • Sponsoring Organizations
  • Copyrights & Permissions
  • Contact Us
  • eLetter/Comments Policy

© 2025 Annals of Family Medicine