Person-Centered Primary Care Measure
The Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (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.
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PCPCM
Click here for a simple PDF containing only the English version of the 11-item patient-reported measure itself. It can also be downloaded in the languages below. New languages are continually being added, contact us if you need it in another language or would like to help with its translation.
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (British)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French (European)
- German
- German (Swiss)
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (European)
- Slovakian
- Slovenian
- Spanish (European)
- Spanish (Latin American)
- Swedish
- Turkish
Using the PCPCM (Implementation and QI)
Implementation
- 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
Suggested QI Activities
Sharing Your PCPCM Results with Us and Others
Click here for 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. A simplified version of the kit can also be downloaded in the languages below.
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (British)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French (European)
- German
- German (Swiss)
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (European)
- Slovakian
- Slovenian
- Spanish (European)
- Spanish (Latin American)
- Swedish
- Turkish
Resources (FAQs and Evidence)
- Coming soon
- 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
- 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
- Person-Centered Primary Care Measure - Executive Summary - one page summary outlining the PCPCM's statistical validity and 11 constructs
- 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
- Core Principles to Improve Primary Care Quality Management - assesses the state of quality management in primary care
- 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
- 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.
Starfield Summit III
Starfield III: 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:
- 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
Click here to learn more about the conference, participants, and products created.
Funded by: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (1R13HS025312-01), the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation, Family Medicine for America’s Health, the North American Primary Care Research Group, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
CMS and NQF Endorsement and Specifications
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