Patient-centered medical home implementation and use of preventive services: the role of practice socioeconomic context.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care is being implemented in a wide variety of socioeconomic contexts, yet there has been little research on whether its effects differ by context. Clinical preventive service use, including cancer screening, is an important outcome to assess the effectiveness of the PCMH within and across socioeconomic contexts.

Objective

To determine whether the relationship between the PCMH and cancer screening is conditional on the socioeconomic context in which a primary care physician practice operates.

Design, setting, and participants

A longitudinal study spanning July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2012, using data from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Physician Group Incentive Program was conducted. Michig

SUBMITTER: Markovitz AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4860609 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature