Patient Centered Medical Home

Foundational Articles

These foundational articles — identified by leading researchers and policymakers — were instrumental in shaping the thinking of the Director of AHRQ’s Center for Primary Care. This list provides key sources of information from the published and gray literature on the development and implementation of the PCMH concept. They may serve as a starting point for learning about the medical home and its components.

American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, & American Osteopathic Association. Joint principles of the patient-centered medical home, 2007. (PDF - 36.80KB) PDF Help

American Academy of Pediatrics ad hoc task force on definition of the medical home. The medical home. Pediatrics 1992 Nov;90(5):774. (PDF - 330.62KB) PDF Help

Berenson RA, Hammons T, Gans DN, et al. A house is not a home: Keeping patients at the center of practice redesign. Health Aff (Millwood) 2008 Sep-Oct;27(5):1219-30. (PubMed®)

Bodenheimer TMD, Grumbach KMD, Berenson RAMD. A lifeline for primary care. N Engl J Med 2009 Jun 25;360(26):2693-6. (PDF - 430.29KB) PDF Help

Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care. The patient centered medical home: History, seven core features, evidence and transformational change. Washington DC: Robert Graham Center, 2007. (PDF - 383.88KB) PDF Help

Grumbach K. The outcomes of implementing patient-centered medical home interventions: A Review of the evidence on quality, access and costs from recent prospective evaluation studies, August 2009. Washington, DC: Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative. (PDF - 108.67KB) PDF Help

Homer CJ, Klatka K, Romm D, et al. A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needs. Pediatrics 2008 Oct;122(4):922-37. (PubMed®)

O'Malley AS, Peikes D, Ginsburg PB. Making medical homes work: moving from concept to practice. Washington, DC: Center for Studying Health System Change, 2008. (PDF - 685.70KB) PDF Help

Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Fisher ES. Primary care and accountable care - two essential elements of delivery-system reform. N Engl J Med 2009 Dec 10;361(24):2301-3. (PubMed®)

Zuckerman S, Merrell K, Berenson R, et al. Incremental cost estimates for the patient-centered medical home. New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund; 2009. (PDF - 691.85KB) PDF Help