Early Evidence On The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Final Report

February 1, 2012
In February 2012, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a review of 498 studies published or disseminated from January 2000 through September 2010 on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Inclusion criteria for an evaluation included: (1) study tested a primary-care, practice-based intervention with three or more of five key PCMH principles; and (2) study used quantitative methods to examine effects on either (a) a triple aim outcome [quality of care, costs (or hospital use or emergency department use, two major cost drivers), and patient and caregiver experience], or (b) health care . . .