Objectives To conduct a systematic review to identify studies that describe factors and
interventions at primary care practice level that impact on levels of utilisation of unscheduled …

Background As healthcare reimbursement shifts from being volume to value-focused, new
delivery models aim to coordinate care and improve quality. The patient-centered medical …

PURPOSE We aimed to advance the internal and external validity of research by sharing
our empirical experience and recommendations for systematically reporting contextual …

Evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD are often underused. The objective of this mixed-
method study was to identify organizational and clinic factors that promote high levels of …

Reducing avoidable emergency department (ED) visits is an important health system goal.
This is a retrospective cohort study of the impact of a primary care intervention including an …

A small percentage of emergency department (ED) visitors account for a disproportionate
portion of ED visits. Little is known about their relationships with their primary care providers …

Background: Physicians have traditionally been reimbursed for face-to-face visits. A new
non–visit-based payment for chronic care management (CCM) of Medicare patients took …

Study objective Patient-centered medical homes are primary care practices that focus on
coordinating acute and preventive care. Such practices can obtain patient-centered medical …

We examined how emergency department (ED) visits for potentially preventable, mental
health, and other diagnoses were related to same-day access and provider continuity in …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The Veterans Health Administration (VA) Patient Aligned Care
Teams (PACT) initiative is designed to deliver a medical home model of care associated …