Person-Centered
Primary Care Measure
This measure assesses crucial elements of primary care, facilitating quality enhancement and driving performance improvement.
PCPCM
PCPCM is an 11-item patient-reported measure that assesses primary care aspects rarely captured yet thought responsible for primary care effects on population health, equity, quality, and sustainable expenditures.
These include: accessibility, comprehensiveness, integration, coordination, relationship, advocacy, family and community context, goal-oriented care, and disease, illness, and prevention management.
A New Comprehensive Measure of High-Value Aspects of Primary Care, published in the Annals of Family Medicine, explains the process taken to develop the PCPCM, as well as its reliability and validity.
Partnership
For your own research
Explore opportunities to utilize the PCPCM Fielding Kit for conducting independent research studies. This kit provides guidance and resources for implementing the PCPCM measure in your research projects, allowing you to gather valuable insights into primary care effectiveness
Working with a health system
Collaborate with health systems to implement the PCPCM measure and assess its impact on healthcare delivery. By partnering with health systems, you can explore how PCPCM can improve patient outcomes, enhance care coordination, and optimize resource allocation within healthcare organizations.
Quality improving tools
Engage in the development of quality improvement tools connected to PCPCM to enhance primary care services. By creating tools that leverage PCPCM data, you can identify areas for improvement, implement targeted interventions, and monitor progress towards achieving quality care standards.
Are you interested in collaborating with us on the measure? There are various partnership opportunities
PCPCM
This PDF contains an 11-item patient-reported measure.
The file is available for download in multiple languages.
New languages are added all the time, please contact us if you need another language or would like help with translation.
Download the File in multiple languages
Using the PCPCM
Implementation
Suggested QI Activities
Implementing the PCPCM to Improve Care in Action/Reflection Cycles - outlines how regular completion of the PCPCM by a sample of patients through action/reflection cycles can focus attention on what matters and foster health care improvement.
How Using the PCPCM Can Support Value in Primary Care - Context Matters - describes the effects of the PCPCM's implementation across multiple levels
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Sharing your results
Fielding and Reporting Kit
The English version of a 4 page document that includes background on the measure, the measure itself for public use, and a 1 page template for sharing your results with the measures team in order to improve the measure.
Please get in touch with us if you need another language or would like help with translation.
Download the Simplified Kit in multiple languages
Resources
Evidence
Measuring What Matters in Primary Care:
The Person-Centered Primary Care Measure - published in Family Practice Management by the AAFP, this infographic concisely explains the tool, how to use it, and its relationship to other patient reported measures
Person-Centered Primary Care Measure - Executive Summary
One page summary outlining the PCPCM's statistical validity and 11 constructs
Measuring Primary Care Across 35 OECD Countries
Assesses the psychometric properties and scores of the PCPCM in 28 languages and 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries
A New Comprehensive Measure of High-Value Aspects of Primary Care
Published in the Annals of Family Medicine, explains the process taken to develop the PCPCM, as well as its reliability and validity
Developing Measures to Capture the True Value of Primary Care
Outlines a number of conceptual frameworks developed to monitor performance of primary care in health systems
Simple Rules That Guide Generalist and Specialist Care
Discusses three simple rules describing the generalist approach: (1) Recognize a broad range of problems/opportunities; (2) Prioritize attention and action with the intent of promoting health, healing, and connection; and (3) Personalize care based on the particulars of the individual or family in their local context.
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Starfield Summit III
Begin/evolve a set of key criteria to inform measure development
Revise/refine a framework for primary care measures based on what matters most
Consider/advance a set of essential primary care measures
Meaningful Measures for Primary Care was a working conference held October 4-6, 2017 in Washington, DC that brought together a small, powerful collective of experts and stakeholders with the goal to:
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