RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Investigating Patient-Centered Care
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 169
OP 171
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2014.02.140009
VO 27
IS 2
A1 Bowman, Marjorie A.
A1 Neale, Anne Victoria
YR 2014
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/2/169.abstract
AB This issue provides many articles reporting on research pertinent to patient-centered care, with great richness in the variety of methods and settings. Topics include disparities in the availability of care and the type of care provided (including a randomized trial), affecting elective hospitalizations on future patient satisfaction, the effect of the specific content of the after visit summary, 2 articles related to aspects of shared decision making, 2 articles considering the effects of practice culture, plus a report on divergent views on how to integrate behavioral and primary health care. Differences between academic and nonacademic family medicine practice are finally documented, with important dissimilarities in patient-centered care. Family physicians are highly involved with dementia care. An exciting report documents a high negative predictive value for a new genomic expression test for coronary artery disease in family medicine that uses combinations of gene expression instead of individual gene testing.