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Association of the Implementation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Quality of Life in Patients with Multimorbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has clinical benefits for chronic disease care, but the association with patient-reported outcomes such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is unexplored in patients with multimorbidity (two or more chronic diseases).

Objective

To examine if greater clinic-level PCMH implementation was associated with higher HRQoL in multimorbid adults.

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Participants

Twenty-two thousand ninety-five multimorbid patients who received primary care at 944 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinics.

Main measures

Our exposure was the Patient Aligned Care Team Implementation Progress Index (PI²) for the clinic in 2012, a previously validated composite measure of PCMH implementation. Higher PI² scores indicate better performance within eight PCMH domains. Outcomes were patient-reported HRQoL measured by the physical and mental component scores (PCS and MCS) from the Short Form-12 patient experiences survey in 2013-2014. Interaction of the outcomes with total hospitalizations and primary care visit count was also examined. Generalized estimating equations were used for main models after adjusting for patient and clinic characteristics.

Results

The cohort average age was 68 years, mostly male (96%), and had an average of 4.4 chronic diagnoses. Compared with patients seen at the lowest scoring clinics for PCMH implementation, care in the highest scoring clinics was associated with a higher adjusted marginal mean PCS (42.3 (95% CI 41.3-43.4) versus 40.3 (95% CI 39.1-41.5), P = 0.01), but a lower MCS (35.2 (95% CI 34.4-36.1) versus 36.0 (95% CI 35.3-36.8), P = 0.17). Patients with prior hospitalizations seen in clinics with higher compared with lower PI² scores had a 2.7 point greater MCS (95% CI 0.6-4.8; P = 0.01).

Conclusions

Multimorbid patients seen in clinics with greater PCMH implementation reported higher physical HRQoL, but lower mental HRQoL. The association between PCMH implementation and mental HRQoL may depend on complex interactions with disease severity and prior hospitalizations.

SUBMITTER: Schuttner L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6957610 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association of the Implementation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Quality of Life in Patients with Multimorbidity.

Schuttner Linnaea L Reddy Ashok A Rosland Ann-Marie AM Nelson Karin K Wong Edwin S ES

Journal of general internal medicine 20191030 1

<h4>Background</h4>The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has clinical benefits for chronic disease care, but the association with patient-reported outcomes such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is unexplored in patients with multimorbidity (two or more chronic diseases).<h4>Objective</h4>To examine if greater clinic-level PCMH implementation was associated with higher HRQoL in multimorbid adults.<h4>Design</h4>A retrospective cohort study.<h4>Participants</h4>Twenty-two thousand nine ...[more]

PMID: 31667750

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Association of the Implementation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Quality of Life in Patients with Multimorbidity.

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Objective

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Conclusions

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