Volume 47 | Number 6 | December 2012

Abstract List

Grant R. Martsolf Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N., Jeffrey A. Alexander Ph.D., Yunfeng Shi, Lawrence P. Casalino M.D., Ph.D., Diane R. Rittenhouse, Dennis P. Scanlon Ph.D., Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.


Objective

To examine the relationship between practices' reported use of patient‐centered medical home () processes and patients' perceptions of their care experience.


Data Source

Primary survey data from 393 physician practices and 1,304 patients receiving care in those practices.


Study Design

This is an observational, cross‐sectional study. Using standard ordinary least‐squares and a sample selection model, we estimated the association between patients' care experience and the use of processes in the practices where they receive care.


Data Collection

We linked data from a nationally representative survey of individuals with chronic disease and two nationally representative surveys of physician practices.


Principal Findings

We found that practices' use of processes was not associated with patient experience after controlling for sample selection as well as practice and patient characteristics.


Conclusions

In our study, which was large, but somewhat limited in its measures of the and of patient experience, we found no association between processes and patient experience. The continued accumulation of evidence related to the possibilities of the , how is measured, and how the impact of is gauged provides important information for health care decision makers.