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.
Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM)
- Jill C. Shuemaker
- Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH
- Warren P. Newton, MD, MPH
Submitted on: November, 2021
COVID-19 altered the way the American public lived their lives; the way they worked, ate, socialized, traveled, and ultimately received their health care. Family Medicine largely closed its doors to face-to-face preventive and chronic care visits and made a large shift to telephone and online video visits. Ten days after the World Health Organization pronounced that the COVID-19 outbreak was a global pandemic, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced that CMS was granting exceptions from reporting requirements, “so the health care delivery system can direct its time and resources toward caring for patients.”15 Suddenly quality reporting requirements were optional, and clinicians who did not submit data would not be penalized, but instead receive neutral payment adjustments. This pause led the ABFM to ask, if current clinical quality measures are not valuable in a pandemic, what does that tell us about what we are measuring?
Read MoreProgress, Challenges, and Policies to Promote Primary Health Care — Harvard Health Policy Review
- Cynthia Haq
- Alison Huffstetler
- Andrew Bazemore
Submitted on: November, 2021
In a remarkable show of solidarity, health leaders from 194 nations recently gathered in Kazakhstan to renew their commitments to primary health care (PHC)1.Forty years earlier, in 1978, a similar group had gathered in Alma Ata to define PHC as a cornerstone of effective health care systems 2. Health leaders agreed that promoting health was a public good.
The effect of team-based care practice on productivity for family physicians
- Willis, Joel DO, PA, MA, MPhil
- Cawley, James F. MPH, PA-C, DFAAPA
Submitted on: October, 2021
About 60% of family physician practices employ PAs and/or NPs but gaps exist in the knowledge of the clinical effects on physician-PA and physician-NP teams. This review summarizes and comments on the significance of a recent report from the American Board of Family Medicine that compares the scope of practice of family physicians for family physicians practicing with either a PA, NP, or both.
