Does a patient-centered medical home based on primary care improve outcomes and reduce costs for patients with complex congenital heart disease?
Implementing a patient-centered medical home model in primary care settings may offer comprehensive benefits for patients with complex congenital heart disease.
The PCMH based on primary care for patients with complex CHD could result in improved clinical outcomes, improved patient satisfaction and quality of life as well as decreased healthcare costs. Policy and practice reform are required to increase CHD-patient access to a PCMH, based on primary-care settings.
Fernandes et al. (Sat,) studied this question.