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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. Conclusion CFHA believes that MBC is a critical process that guides, informs, and enhances clinical practices at all levels of integrated care systems. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18(1), 104–110.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Sadly, when all medical waste is somebody's income, there is little enthusiasm in the medical-industrial complex or on Capitol Hill in allocating the $3 trillion the U.S.