PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Phillips, Robert L.
AU  - Kaufman, Arthur
AU  - Mold, James W.
AU  - Grumbach, Kevin
AU  - Vetter-Smith, Molly
AU  - Berry, Anne
AU  - Burke, Bridget Teevan
TI  - The Primary Care Extension Program: A Catalyst for Change
AID  - 10.1370/afm.1495
DP  - 2013 Mar 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 173--178
VI  - 11
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/2/173.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/2/173.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2013 Mar 01; 11
AB  - The Affordable Care Act authorized, but did not fund, the Primary Care Extension Program (PCEP). Much like the Cooperative Extension Program of the US Department of Agriculture sped the modernization of farming a century ago, the PCEP could speed the transformation of primary care. It could also help achieve other goals such as integrating primary care with public health and translating research into practice. The urgency of these goals and their importance to achieving the Triple Aim for health care should increase interest in rapidly building the PCEP, much as the need to feed the country did a century ago.