Over the past 25 years, evaluators of social programs have searched for nonexperimental
methods that can substitute effectively for experimental ones. Recently, the spotlight has …

Efforts to redesign primary care require multiple supports. Two potential members of the
primary care team—practice facilitator and care manager—can play important but distinct roles …

Background The 4-year, multipayer Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative was started in
October 2012 to determine whether several forms of support would produce changes in care …

PURPOSE Despite growing calls for team-based care, the current staff composition of primary
care practices is unknown. We describe staffing patterns for primary care practices in the …

METHODS Twenty promising programs were identified using searches of published and grey
literature, conference presentations, and recommendations from a technical expert panel. …

… Deborah Peikes is currently employed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
However, this research commenced while Peikes was employed by Humana Inc. The views …

PURPOSE Practices in the 4-year Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative changed
staffing patterns during 2012-2016 to improve care delivery. We sought to characterize these …

Background Physician burnout is associated with deleterious effects for physicians and their
patients and might be exacerbated by practice transformation. Objective Assess the effect of …

The recent Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
legislation for adoption of health information technology (IT) in public insurance programs could …

Sickle cell disease (SCD) has a history of health inequity, as patients with SCD are primarily
Black and often marginalized from the health care system. Although recent health care and …