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Back to Basics: The Perioperative Surgical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is designed to improve care for patients, decrease health care costs, and transform the way in which clinicians deliver primary care. This article discusses how the model originated and provides a how-to guide and strategies for success in implementing this model of care.

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Why the Perioperative Surgical Home Makes Sense for Veterans Affairs Health Care

The purpose of this article is to examine the applicability of the Perioperative Surgical Home model to the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system.

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The Perioperative Surgical Home: An Innovative Clinical Care Delivery Model

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model was created to improve medical care of patients, in an effort to improve the widespread concerns of growing medical care costs and variable quality of care. In this editorial, we highlight five major components of the PSH as they relate to key, essential elements of the existing PCMH model.

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The Perioperative Surgical Home: How Anesthesiology Can Collaboratively Achieve and Leverage the Triple Aim in Health Care

This article posits that the PSH can serve as the needed integrator for achieving and leveraging the IHI Triple Aim for surgical patients.

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Turning Value-Based Health Care into a Real Business Model

The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of procedures.

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