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The patient-centered medical home model is being tested in the U.S. as a promising approach to delivering higher-quality, cost-effective primary care. The concept may help avert a crisis in primary care shortage areas, but some express concern that current standards are biased toward easily measurable criteria that may not solve barriers in expanding primary care. Also, it may be difficult for patients and physicians to make the transition to medical homes. Does the proposed model have merit?
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Re: Model Home for the Patient?
