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- Title
Enhancing State Medical Home Capacity through a Care Coordination Technical Assistance Model.
- Authors
Berry, Susan; Barovechio, Patti; Mabile, Emily; Tran, Tri
- Abstract
Introduction A practice-based care coordination (CC) model was developed by Louisiana's Title V Children's Special Health Services (CSHS) program to meet the overwhelming needs of the New Orleans post-Katrina population. The pilot clinic demonstrated an improvement in medical home (MH) capacity over the course of 3 months. The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the replicability of the model and sustainability of MH improvement over at least 2 years, while identifying factors that may modify the effect of the intervention. Methods The CSHS CC model utilizing a practice based care coordinator was implemented in 15 academic primary care pediatric clinics. Increase in MH capacity was determined using the MH Index-Short Version (MHI-SV) tool. Results The analysis of the MHI-SV scores for the ten clinics with >2 years of data demonstrated a significant improvement with each of the ten MHI-SV indicators. The mean clinic MHI-SV score improved from 19.70 to 34.15 on a scale of 10-50. Characteristics associated with the greatest MHI score improvement were rural geographic location, having an electronic health record, and using social workers or nurses as care coordinators. Characteristics associated with lower MHI scores were physician or care coordinator turnover and using stand-alone databases rather than tracking CC activities within the central patient record. Conclusion This study provides a flexible framework for implementing CC services in pediatric, family medicine, and medicine-pediatric practices, and demonstrates the value of CC as a driver for improvement in medical home capacity.
- Subjects
LOUISIANA; CHILD health services; COMMUNITY health services; CONFIDENCE intervals; CUSTOMER satisfaction; CONTINUUM of care; DOCUMENTATION; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL needs assessment; MEDICAL screening; POPULATION geography; PRIMARY health care; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; RURAL conditions; SOCIAL workers; SURVEYS; PILOT projects; EVALUATION research; PATIENT-centered care; DATA analysis software; ELECTRONIC health records
- Publication
Maternal & Child Health Journal, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 10, p1949
- ISSN
1092-7875
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10995-017-2312-1