Medical home
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The medical home,[1] also known as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider[2] to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes.[3][4] It is described in the "Joint Principles" (see below) as "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults."[5]
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The provision of medical homes is intended to allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health.[6][7][8][9]
The "Joint Principles" that popularly define a PCMH were established through the efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) in 2007.[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology and appropriately-trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their functions devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage further coordination.[10][11][page needed]