Abstract

Practice coaching, also called practice facilitation, assists physician practices with the desire to improve in such areas as patient access, chronic and preventive care, electronic medical record use, patient-centeredness, cultural competence, and team-building. This issue brief clarifies the essential features of practice coaching and offers guidance for health system leaders, public and private insurers, and federal and state policymakers on how best to structure and design these programs in primary care settings. Good-quality evidence demonstrates that practice coaching is effective. The authors argue that primary care delivery in the United States would benefit from a more systematic approach to the training and deployment of primary care practice coaches.

Authors

Grumbach K, Bainbridge E, Bodenheimer T

Institution

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, USA. kgrumbach@fcm.ucsf.edu

Source

Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund) 15: 2012 Jun pg 1-14

MeSH

Canada
Delivery of Health Care
Family Practice
Great Britain
Humans
Netherlands
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Physician's Practice Patterns
Physicians, Family
Practice Management, Medical
Primary Health Care
Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care
United States

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22712103