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Home Research Research Library The Need for Coaches in the Clinical World The Need for Coaches in the Clinical World 2021 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine Five papers in this issue could be read with hope and despair about change in clinical care, but I believe they all call for coaches—the need for facilitation in practice transformation. These studies offer important insights about facilitating behavior change, the importance of culture, respecting complexity, and the real risk that our nation’s quality payment program is mass delusion. Starting with the most promising, EvidenceNOW is an important, largescale test of change facilitation in frontline practice (Cohen et al). The integration of an evaluation plan (ESCALATES) and intense intention to learn was certainly part of its secret sauce, producing dozens of useful studies along the way. The manuscript in this issue reports on the role of practice conditions and facilitation on improving blood pressure and smoking cessation, finding that smaller and physician-owned practices are more likely to have sufficient agency and capacity for translating motivations into change and improvement than larger or system-owned practices. The authors find practice facilitation to be an important ingredient for change, but particularly in the latter clinics. This is an important lesson given the rapid shifts in practice ownership and health system consolidation. The paper adds to evidence for federal and state investments in practice facilitation and is also testament to a decade of careful, thoughtful investment by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in learning how to support practice transformation. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States 2021 Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification Go to Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification 2013 Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery Go to Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Practice Organization / Ownership Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2018 Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States 2021 Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification Go to Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification 2013 Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery Go to Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
2018 Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States Go to Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States
2021 Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification Go to Factors Associated with Time Spent Practicing Sports Medicine by Those with a Certificate of Added Qualification
2013 Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery Go to Measures of social deprivation that predict health care access and need within a rational area of primary care service delivery
2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence