Medical home capabilities of primary care practices that serve sociodemographically vulnerable neighborhoods

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 938-944

  Friedberg, Mark W ^a,f   Coltin, Kathryn L ^b   Safran, Dana Gelb ^c   Dresser, Marguerite ^d   Schneider, Eric C ^a,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Health Quality Partners   (United States)

^e RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^f RAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77953720146     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.110     Document Type: Article

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