Primary-care group faults medical-homes analysis
on Sun, 2012-12-02 19:00 admin
The Primary Care Collaborative is criticizing an Annals of Internal Medicine report that concluded there wasn't enough evidence to determine the patient-centered medical-home practice model's effect on clinical outcomes and costs. The collaborative asserts that the report overlooks more recent studies that "tell a far more encouraging story."The journal study, funded by the HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, identified some 5,731 studies for analysis, but its authors found only 19 that contained the effectiveness data the researchers sought.
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