Journal article
The Critical Role of Clerks in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Annals of family medicine, Vol.14(4), pp.377-379
07/2016
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1934
PMCID: PMC4940470
PMID: 27401428
Abstract
Research evaluating the effectiveness, function, and implementation of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) has found major socioprofessional transformations and contributions of primary care physicians and, to a lesser degree, nurses. Our longitudinal ethnographic research with teams implementing PCMH in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care identifies the important but largely underutilized contributions of clerks to PCMH outcomes. Although the relationship of high-performing clerical staff to patient satisfaction is widely acknowledged, PCMH can be further enhanced by enabling clerks to use administrative tasks as conduits for investing in long-term personalized relationships with patients that foster trust in the PCMH and the broader health care organization. Such relationships are engendered through the care-coordination activities clerks perform, which may be bolstered by organizational investment in clerks as skilled health care team members.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Critical Role of Clerks in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Creators
- Samantha L Solimeo - VISN 23 Patient Aligned Care Team Demonstration Lab, and Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IowaGreg L Stewart - VISN 23 Patient Aligned Care Team Demonstration Lab, and Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IowaGary E Rosenthal - VISN 23 Patient Aligned Care Team Demonstration Lab, and Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of family medicine, Vol.14(4), pp.377-379
- Publisher
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- DOI
- 10.1370/afm.1934
- PMID
- 27401428
- PMCID
- PMC4940470
- ISSN
- 1544-1709
- eISSN
- 1544-1717
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2016
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094517402771
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