Wender Richard C, Altshuler Marc
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Prim Care. 2009 Dec;36(4):845-58; table of contents. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2009.07.009.
Addressing our current health care crisis will demand 2 forms of health care reform: reform of health care coverage and transformation of health care delivery. Most policy makers have accepted that primary care must play a prominent role in a new health care delivery vehicle. A new concept, the medical home, has emerged as a possible model of how primary care can improve performance and help control costs. Although the medical home concept has not yet been applied to cancer care, elements of the concept have the potential to improve cancer prevention efforts and to help coordinate care of individuals diagnosed with cancer. This article explores the possible role of the medical home in the war on cancer.
医疗保险覆盖范围的改革和医疗服务提供方式的转变。大多数政策制定者都认为，初级保健必须在新的医疗服务提供模式中发挥突出作用。一个新的概念——“医疗之家”已经出现，它可能成为初级保健改善服务绩效并帮助控制成本的一种模式。尽管“医疗之家”的概念尚未应用于癌症护理，但该概念的一些要素有可能改善癌症预防工作，并有助于协调对癌症确诊患者的护理。本文探讨了“医疗之家”在抗癌斗争中可能发挥的作用。
