Barriers and facilitators to team-based care in the context of primary care transformation.
The patient-centered medical home model relies on team-based care for meaningful practice transformation. This article adds to the literature on the importance of teams in primary care by exploring the barriers and facilitators to establishing high functioning teams during a patient-centered medical home transformation process.
Center for Community Health and Evaluation (Ms Cromp and Dr Hsu), Group Health Research Institute (Mss Coleman and Ehrlich, Drs Fishman and Reid, and Messrs Johnson and Ross), Seattle, Washington; Primary Care, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington (Drs Trescott and Trehearne); and Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (Dr Liss).
DeAnn
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Cromp
Clarissa
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Hsu
Katie
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Coleman
Paul A
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Fishman
David T
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Liss
Kelly
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Ehrlich
Eric
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Johnson
Tyler R
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Ross
Claire
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Trescott
Barbara
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Trehearne
Robert J
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Reid
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