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.
The Path to Coordinated Federal Leadership to Strengthen Primary Health Care
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
Submitted on: November, 2022
As the nation struggles to find a new equilibrium in health care services delivery and financing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it faces four foundational and interconnected population health challenges: a growing recognition of the toll of health inequities on vulnerable populations, pandemic recovery and future resilience, a resurgent opioid epidemic, and a growing mental health crisis, especially for children and teens.
Investment in primary care, which the 2021 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care named a common good, will help the US address each of these challenges. But aligning federal levers will be necessary.
Watch: The Past, Present and Future of Primary Care-Texas Primary Care Consortium 2022 Annual Summit
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
Submitted on: November, 2022
Radical Reorientation of the US Health Care System Around Relationships
- Christine A. Sinsky, MD; Tait D. Shanafelt, MD; and Alexandra M. Ristow, MD
Submitted on: October, 2022
Over the past several decades, health care has increasingly been conceptualized as a series of independent encounters (ie, transactions) that can be distributed nearly randomly among health care workers: any physician can round on the patient, any clinician can be on the other side of the telemedicine screen, any resident can cover “continuity clinic.” Although this is a factor in almost all specialties, this transactional mindset that treats physicians as interchangeable parts is particularly problematic in specialties where continuity and longitudinal care play a critical role (eg, primary care disciplines, neurology, oncology, and psychiatry).
