Practice-site-level measures of primary care comprehensiveness and their associations with patient outcomes.

Ann S O'MalleyEugene C RichLisa ShangTyler RoseArkadipta GhoshDmitriy PoznyakDeborah PeikesMatt Niedzwiecki

Published in: Health services research (2020)

More comprehensive primary care practices had lower Medicare FFS expenditures, hospitalization, and ED visit rates. Both PCP and practice-site level comprehensiveness measures had strong construct and predictive validity; PCP-level measures were more precise.

Keyphrases

primary care
healthcare
emergency department
general practice
quality improvement