학술논문

Primary Care 2.0: A Prospective Evaluation of a Novel Model of Advanced Team Care With Expanded Medical Assistant Support
Document Type
article
Source
The Annals of Family Medicine. 19(5)
Subject
Health Services and Systems
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Health Sciences
Clinical Research
Health Services
Good Health and Well Being
Burnout
Professional
Humans
Patient Care Team
Patient Satisfaction
Physicians
Primary Care
Primary Health Care
Surveys and Questionnaires
burnout
healthcare team
healthcare workforce
organizational innovation
primary care team
Medical and Health Sciences
Studies in Human Society
General & Internal Medicine
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Health sciences
Human society
Language
Abstract
PurposeAssess effectiveness of Primary Care 2.0: a team-based model that incorporates increased medical assistant (MA) to primary care physician (PCP) ratio, integration of advanced practice clinicians, expanded MA roles, and extended the interprofessional team.MethodsProspective, quasi-experimental evaluation of staff/clinician team development and wellness survey data, comparing Primary Care 2.0 to conventional clinics within our academic health care system. We surveyed before the model launch and every 6-9 months up to 24 months post implementation. Secondary outcomes (cost, quality metrics, patient satisfaction) were assessed via routinely collected operational data.ResultsTeam development significantly increased in the Primary Care 2.0 clinic, sustained across all 3 post implementation time points (+12.2, +8.5, + 10.1 respectively, vs baseline, on the 100-point Team Development Measure) relative to the comparison clinics. Among wellness domains, only "control of work" approached significant gains (+0.5 on a 5-point Likert scale, P = .05), but was not sustained. Burnout did not have statistically significant relative changes; the Primary Care 2.0 site showed a temporal trend of improvement at 9 and 15 months. Reversal of this trend at 2 years corresponded to contextual changes, specifically, reduced MA to PCP staffing ratio. Adjusted models confirmed an inverse relationship between team development and burnout (P