RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The 10 Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 166
OP 171
DO 10.1370/afm.1616
VO 12
IS 2
A1 Thomas Bodenheimer
A1 Amireh Ghorob
A1 Rachel Willard-Grace
A1 Kevin Grumbach
YR 2014
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/2/166.abstract
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.