Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments
- Robert L. Phillips Jr.
Submitted on: February, 2023
There is increasing pressure on frontline clinicians, particularly those in primary care, to assess patients for social needs — for instance, poverty, housing instability, food insecurity, and unemployment — which can be potent drivers of health outcomes. While identifying these needs is important, without resources to address them directly or the ability to partner with community-based organizations, clinicians are left powerless. Being pushed to assess without resources can be a source of frustration and burnout for clinicians who are motivated to help their patients.
Scientists document and test new continuity of care
Submitted on: January, 2023
Continuity of care is essential to the clinician/patient relationship within family medicine. However, researchers have few ways to track continuity of care as a measurement of clinical quality. Researchers developed the Physician Level Continuity of Care Measure (or CoC measure for short), which only recently received full National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsement.
Watch: PCBH Corner, Episode 43: Implementing High-Quality Primary Care with Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH
Submitted on: December, 2022
Dr. Bauman sits down with Dr. Phillips to discuss his work with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s report on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care. Dr. Phillips takes us through the development of the report, as well as the importance of a contextual, person-centered approach to primary care that focuses on the relationships with patients, families, and communities.
