PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bodenheimer, Thomas
AU  - Ghorob, Amireh
AU  - Willard-Grace, Rachel
AU  - Grumbach, Kevin
TI  - The 10 Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care
AID  - 10.1370/afm.1616
DP  - 2014 Mar 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 166--171
VI  - 12
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/2/166.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/2/166.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2014 Mar 01; 12
AB  - Our experiences studying exemplar primary care practices, and our work assisting other practices to become more patient centered, led to a formulation of the essential elements of primary care, which we call the 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care. The building blocks include 4 foundational elements—engaged leadership, data-driven improvement, empanelment, and team-based care—that assist the implementation of the other 6 building blocks—patient-team partnership, population management, continuity of care, prompt access to care, comprehensiveness and care coordination, and a template of the future. The building blocks, which represent a synthesis of the innovative thinking that is transforming primary care in the United States, are both a description of existing high-performing practices and a model for improvement.