title: Patient-centered medical homes: primer for pharmacists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) primer for pharmacists, including basic background information, key terminology, and examples of success stories.
  
  
  METHODS
  PCMH literature and resources obtained through search strategies by authors including but not limited to PubMed and Google Scholar.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PCMHs are a potential means of achieving cost reduction in health care and providing collaborative and comprehensive care, and they represent a promising option for achieving health care reform. Medication therapy management and collaborative drug therapy management are possible means for pharmacists to fulfill the goals of PCMHs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacists must become knowledgeable of standards of PCMH and their abilities to fulfill these standards. Advocacy at local, state, and national levels is needed to achieve recognition of the value of pharmacists in PCMHs.
authors.affiliation: jeanine.abrons@me.com
authors.forename: Jeanine P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Abrons
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D054539:Medication Therapy Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024382:Professional Role