Implementation of the patient-centered medical home in the veterans health administration: Associations with patient satisfaction, quality of care, staff burnout, and hospital and emergency department use

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1350-1358

  Nelson, Karin M ^a,b   Helfrich, Christian ^a,c   Sun, Haili ^a,c   Hebert, Paul L ^a,c   Liu, Chuan Fen ^a,c   Dolan, Emily ^a   Taylor, Leslie ^a   Wong, Edwin ^b,c   Maynard, Charles ^a,c   Hernandez, Susan E ^a,c   Sanders, William ^d   Randall, Ian ^a,c   Curtis, Idamay ^d   Schectman, Gordon ^e   Stark, Richard ^e   Fihn, Stephan D ^a,b,d  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BURNOUT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AGED; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84905845225     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.2488     Document Type: Article

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