Publications and Resource Library

Below are links to key articles and resources on patient-centered care, quality improvement and other important topics.

Articles

• Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide, Picker Institute (2008)
• Case Study: Indian Health Council Creates a Medical Home for Patients (November 2008)
• Measuring the Medical Home Infrastructure in Large Medical Groups (September 2008)
• Continuous Innovation in Health Care: Implications of the Geisinger Experience (September 2008)
• A House Is Not a Home: Keeping Patients at the Center of Practice Redesign (September 2008)
• Strategies States Can Use to Support the Infrastructure of a Medical Home (May 2008)
• Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care (2007)
• Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults’ Health Care Experiences in Seven Countries (2007)
• Patient-Centered Care for Underserved Populations: Definition and Best Practices
• Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (March 2007)
• Patient-Centered Care: What Does it Take? (October 2007)

Tools

• NCQA’s Recognition Program for Patient-Centered Medical Homes
  This site houses NCQA’s Physician Practice Connections: Patient-Centered Medical Home™ resources, including the PPC-PCMH joint principles, standards and guidelines and assessment tools.
  
• TransforMED
  TransforMED™ provides a free medical home assessment for physicians and group practices. The survey asks for information in eight different domains: access to care, continuity of care, information systems, patient-centered care, point of care services, practice management, quality and safety, and team-based care. It then computes module-specific and summary scores, and provides links to resources and information.

Other Initiatives

• Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PC-PCC)