Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-3-2017
Abstract
Purpose
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) promotes the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model as a way to improve healthcare quality, the patient experience, and has identified nurse-led primary care as a mechanism meeting the increasing demand for quality primary care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation of a PCMH model in nurse-led primary care practices and to identify facilitators and barriers to the implementation of this model.
Methods
Data were collected through in-depth interviews with providers and staff in nurse-led practices.
Results
These data suggest two categories of processes that facilitate the integration of PCMH in the nurse-led practice setting: patient-oriented facilitators and organizational facilitators. In addition, a number of barriers were identified to implementing the PCMH model. Overall, these practices creatively engaged in the transformation process by structuring themselves as a complex adaptive system and building upon the core principles of nurse-led care.
Conclusion
Since the core principles of nurse-led care map onto many of the same principles of the PCMH model, this study discusses the possibility that nurse-led practices may experience fewer barriers when transitioning into PCMHs.
Recommended Citation
Frasso, R., Golinkoff, A., Klusaritz, H., Kellom, K., Kollar-McArthur, H., Miller-Day, M., ... & Cronholm, P. F. (2017). How nurse-led practices perceive implementation of the patient-centered medical home. Applied Nursing Research, 34, 34-39. doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2017.02.005
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Elsevier
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Comments
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Applied Nursing Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Applied Nursing Research, volume 34, in 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2017.02.005
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