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Improving Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice

Improving Primary Care: Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice

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The authors of the worlds best-selling health policy text offer valuable insights and guidance to primary care practitioners

A Doodys Core Title!

Improving Primary Care offers frank appraisals and concrete recommendations for primary care practitioners on how to meet the huge, stress-inducing, challenges that they face on a daily basis. The authors offer innovative approaches and suggestions to dealing with primary care issues ranging from the latest electronic technologies to non-traditional options for the patient-physician encounter.

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McGraw Hill / Medical
45373
9780071447386
9780071447386

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Publication date
2006
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
400
Dimensions (mm)
152 x 229
Weight (g)
392

  • Preface
    Acknowledgments

    CHAPTER ONE

    The Primary Care Home

    The Primary Care Home
    What is Primary Care?
    Why Primary Care?
    The Value of a Primary Care Home
    The Endangered Primary Care Home
    Can Primary Care Fulfill its Vision?
    Putting the Primary Care House in Order

    CHAPTER TWO

    A New Practice Model for Primary Care

    Building the New Practice Model
    Is the New Practice Model Feasible?

    CHAPTER THREE

    Patient-Centered Care: Finding the Balance

    What is Patient-Centered Care?
    Patient-Centered Care in the Patient-Clinician Encounter
    Patient-Centered Care in the Primary Care Microsystem
    Patient-Centered Care in the Health Care Macrosystem
    Patient-Centered Care Meets Cultural Competence
    Barriers to Patient-Centered Care
    Conclusion: Patient-Centered Care is a Partnership

    CHAPTER FOUR

    Improving Primary Care for Patients with Chronic Illness

    The Chronic Care Model
    Implementing the Chronic Care Model
    Do Chronic Care Model Components Improve Clinical Outcomes?
    Does the Chronic Care Model Save Money?
    Changing Primary Care to Incorporate the Chronic Care Model
    Conclusion

    CHAPTER FIVE

    Self-Management Support for People with Chronic Illness

    Traditional Versus Collaborative Relationships
    Implementing Self-management Support in Clinical Practice: the 5 As
    Conclusion

    CHAPTER SIX

    Improving Timely Access to Primary Care

    Three Access Models for Primary Care
    Case Studies of Advanced Access
    Research on Advanced Access
    Confronting Problems
    How to Begin

    CHAPTER SEVEN

    Alternatives to the 15-minute Visit

    Group Visits
    Virtual Encounters
    Conclusion

    CHAPTER EIGHT

    Computerizing the Primary Care Home

    The Roles of Electronic Health Care
    Techies and Luddites
    The Benefits of Computerization
    Conclusion

    CHAPTER NINE

    Health Care Teams in Primary Care

    Groups and Teams
    A Brief History of Primary Care Teams in the United States
    Two Contemporary Primary Care Teams
    Building Teams
    Research Studies on Primary Care Teams
    The Problems with Teams
    Introducing Teams into Primary Care

    CHAPTER TEN

    Diagnosing and Treating the Primary Care Practice

    What is a Microsystem?
    Diagnosing the Primary Care Microsystem
    Treating the Primary Care Microsystem
    Conclusion

    CHAPTER ELEVEN

    Payment for Primary Care

    The Primary Care Specialty Income Gap
    The Key Role of Volume
    Fee-for-Service Payment and the New Practice Model
    What Could be done to Change the Situation?

    CHAPTER TWELVE

    Conclusion

    APPENDIX A

    Some Organizations and Resources Demonstrating Innovative Primary Care Practices

    APPENDIX B

    Assessing your Practice

    APPENDIX C

    Diagnosing Problems in your Practice

    APPENDIX D

    Primary Care Patient Survey

    APPENDIX E

    Primary Care Staff Satisfaction Survey

    APPENDIX F

    Resources on Cultural Competence Health Literacy

    APPENDIX G

    Office Visit Cycle Time

    APPENDIX H

    Interruptions in the Days Work

    APPENDIX I

    Group Visit Starter Kit

    APPENDIX J

    Resources Available from Improving Chronic Illness Care

    APPENDIX K

    Patient Assessment of Chronic Care

    APPENDIX L

    Self-management Support Tools

    APPENDIX M

    Self-management Support Assessment

    APPENDIX N

    Review of Evidence on the Chronic Care Model

    APPENDIX O

    Review of Evidence on Primary Care Teams Index
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