Traditional industrial QI does not work in primary care. A recent publication brilliantly makes this case on both theoretical and practical levels ;-). On a theoretical level, primary care is best thought of as a complex adaptive system, not a simple linear mechanical system. Think of complex adaptive systems as kind...
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In the AAFP’s Advanced Primary Care Alternative Payment Model document, the concept of population health management is a little more muddled, but it keeps rearing its head in different places in the document with different descriptors. From the definition of the primary care medical home, the phrase Planned Care and Population...
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