RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Primary Care Extension Program: A Catalyst for Change
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 173
OP 178
DO 10.1370/afm.1495
VO 11
IS 2
A1 Robert L. Phillips, Jr
A1 Arthur Kaufman
A1 James W. Mold
A1 Kevin Grumbach
A1 Molly Vetter-Smith
A1 Anne Berry
A1 Bridget Teevan Burke
YR 2013
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/2/173.abstract
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.