Minnesota’s Early Experience with Medical Home Implementation: Viewpoints from the Front Lines

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 899-906

  Fontaine, Patricia ^a   Whitebird, Robin ^a   Solberg, Leif I ^a   Tillema, Juliana ^a   Smithson, Angela ^b   Crabtree, Benjamin F ^c  

^a HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MANAGER; NURSE; PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOME; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MINNESOTA; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE FINANCING; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MINNESOTA; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84931566685     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3136-y     Document Type: Article

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