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Specialties include family medicine/practice, internal medicine and multi-specialties in which 50% or more of the care provided is primary care. [citation needed] In 2006, TransforMED announced the launch of the National Demonstration Project aimed at transforming the way primary care is delivered in our country.
An emerging model of direct primary care involves the medical practice contracting with self-insured (or self-funded) employers who offer the direct primary care option as a means of accessing care for free or drastically reduced office visit fees. This is also known as onsite health. The employer pays the membership fees on behalf of the ...
Direct primary care (DPC) is a term often linked to concierge medicine. While the two terms are similar, concierge medicine encompasses many different health care delivery models, including direct primary care. Both are variants of traditional primary care common in the United States, typically based on health insurance.
Primary care may be provided in community health centres. Primary care is a model of health care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimise population health and reduce disparities across the population by ensuring that subgroups have equal access to services.
A primary health care worker in Saudi Arabia, 2008. The ultimate goal of primary healthcare is the attainment of better health services for all. It is for this reason that the World Health Organization (WHO), has identified five key elements to achieving this goal: [11]
Collaborative care is a related healthcare philosophy and movement that has many names, models, and definitions that often includes the provision of mental-health, behavioral-health and substance-use services in primary care. Common derivatives of the name collaborative care include integrated care, primary care behavioral health, integrated ...
The Guided Care model was first tested in a pilot study in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. area during 2003–2004. Patients who received Guided Care rated their quality of care significantly more highly than patients who received usual care, [3] and the average insurance costs for Guided Care patients were 23 percent lower over a six-month period.
Most of the MCDA models used today in health care were developed for non-medical applications. This has led to many instances of misuse of MCDA models in health care and in shared decision-making in particular. A prime example is the case of decision aids for life-critical SDM.