Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?

Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?

Published: Oct 30, 2011
Publisher: Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Authors

Deborah Peikes

Stacy Dale

Eric Lundquist

Janice Genevro

David Meyers

Evaluations of the patient-centered medical home, a model that redesigns primary care, should account for clustering of patients within practices. This paper describes why and how to do this, and what samples of patients and practices are needed for studies to achieve adequate statistical power.

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