Interprofessional Education in Patient-Centered Medical Homes Implications from Complex Adaptive Systems Theory /

• Main Authors: Smith, C. Scott (Author), Gerrish, Winslow G. (Author), Weppner, William G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Internal medicine.; Practice of medicine.; Complexity, Computational.; Medicine & Public Health.; Practice and Hospital Management.; Internal Medicine.; Complexity.; Public Health.

This book discusses the application of complex adaptive systems theory to the design and evaluation of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs).  The three defining goals of PCMHs are to spread patient-care roles among healthcare team members, focus on disease prevention, and include the patient in th...

Table of Contents:

• The Argument for Interprofessional Education
• The Argument for the Patient-Centered Medical Home – Replicating Good Primary Care
• A Brief Introduction to Systems
• The Training Clinic as a System
• SHED: Four Important Sub-Theories that Help Us to ‘Bracket’
• Implications for Design
• Implications for Evaluation
• Implications for Institutions.