RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Practice Innovation for Care Integration, Opioid Management, and Quality Measurement in Family Medicine
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 1
OP 3
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160349
VO 30
IS 1
A1 Neale, Anne Victoria
A1 Bowman, Marjorie A.
A1 Seehusen, Dean A.
YR 2017
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/1.abstract
AB Ringing in the new year 2017! This may finally be the year of real practice improvement after many false starts. Research into practice transformation has informed both local work and national policy. Human factors and payment structures are key. And payment structures depend on how quality is measured. Large gaps between practicing physician recommendations for the most important quality measures and those currently imposed externally are exposed in this issue. Also see information on in-practice social work consultations and their outcomes and recommendations from innovators in integrated care, and for chronic opioid therapy management based on visits to many family medicine offices. Visit entropy is negative for hospital readmissions. Another article reaffirms the importance of family physicians in rural obstetrics, including Cesarean deliveries. Two articles address changing Latino health care access. New Mexico's innovative health extension agent implementation now includes research in ways that benefit all. And a glass half-full: the growth in the diversity of family medicine faculty is above average, but is not occurring as quickly as in the general population.