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Community Resources

PDCM Oncology Community Resources

Website

Medical Home Portal

Website with information about many pediatric chronic health conditions and tips about how to build a family centered medical home. It is an excellent resource for professionals and family members

Medical Home Portal

Article

The METER: A Brief, Self-Administered Measure of Health Literacy

From PubMed Central

PMC The METER: A Brief, Self-Administered Measure of Health Literacy

Article

Patient Centered Medical Home Articles

The Group Health Medical Home at Year Two: Cost Savings, Higher Patient Satisfaction, And Less Burnout For Providers

From PubMed. Reid RJ, Coleman K, Johnson E, Fishman P, Hsu C, Soman MP, Trescott CT, Erikson M, Larson EB. Health Affairs. May 2010
Value and the Medical Home: Effects of Transformed Primary Care

From PubMed. Geisinger Health System PCMH Implementation. Gilfillan RJ, Tomcavage J, Rosenthal MB et al. American Journal of Managed Care. August 2010
Driving Quality Gains and Cost Savings through Adoption of Medical Homes

From Health Affairs. Fields, D, Leshen, E. Patel, K. Health Affairs. May 2010

Tools

IHI Quality Improvement Resources

From the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA

How to Improve: A Description of the Improvement Model
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet

Tools

Plain Language Medical Dictionary

Online tool created through the University of Michigan to help patients search medical terms in plain language

U-M Library Plain Language Medical Dictionary

Article

RWJF Synthesis Project: Care Management of Patients with Complex Health Care Needs

A synthesis paper that defines care management and looks at the evidence and explores the potential for care management to improve quality of care and reduce costs for people with complex health care needs. Bodenheimer, T; Berry-Millett, R. Robert Wood Johnson Research Synthesis Report No. 12 December 2009

Care Management of Patients with Complex Health Care Needs

Tools

HICM Care Manager Activity Tracking Worksheet

A concise tool to track the care manager's work with an individual patient and includes list of billing codes

Website

Lean for Clinical Redesign Clinical Quality Initiative

Web site provides Lean background, tools, videos, websites, and highlights Michigan Practices Lean Collaboratives.

Lean for Clinical Redesign

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Health Literacy Articles

Improving Communication with Older Patients.pdf

Improving Communication With Older Patients: Tips From the Literature

From the Family Practice Management journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians

The Health Literacy and Plain Language Resource Guide.pdf

The Health Literacy & Plain Language Resource Guide

From Health Literacy Innovations for the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies
New Federal Policy Initiatives To Boost Health Literacy

From Health Affairs. New Federal Policy Initiatives To Boost Health Literacy Can Help The Nation Move Beyond The Cycle Of Costly ‘Crisis Care’

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