Background: Primary care attributes (PCAs) encompassed by patient-centered medical
homes may increase receipt of preventive care, though national studies are lacking …

There is debate about the value of preventive visits in primary care, and multiple policy
trends during the past fifteen years may have influenced the likelihood of US adults …

Introduction There is an increasing need for the development of new methods to understand
factors affecting delivery of preventive care. This study applies a new measurement …

Objectives. Evidence is building that primary care is associated with quality of care and cost
effectiveness. Still, little is known of the contribution of specific attributes of primary care to …

Background Primary care visits can serve many purposes and potentially influence health
behaviors. Although previous studies suggest that increasing primary care provider numbers …

Objectives. We examined preventive care use by nonelderly adults (aged 18–64 years)
before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and considered the contributions of insurance …

Introduction Lack of health insurance coverage has been shown to reduce use of some
preventive services. However, even when care is free or fully covered by insurance, clinical …

Abstract This issue of Research Briefs examines health centers' role in reducing disparities
in preventive health care access by medically vulnerable and high risk populations. The …

Objectives. This study ascertained the separate and combined effects of having insurance
and a usual source of care on receiving preventive services. Methods. Descriptive and …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Despite data suggesting that patientcentered medical homes
(PCMHs) improve preventive service use, limited nationally representative evidence exists …