The financial impact of team-based care on primary care.

Objectives: Although team-based care can improve coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors and is considered cost-effective from a healthcare system perspective, little is known about the financial impact of team-based primary care for secondary prevention of CHD. The purpose of this study was to define the impact of team-based care for CHD on utilization, costs, and revenue of a private primary care practice.

Study Design: Interrupted time series analysis.

Using Principles of Complex Adaptive Systems to Implement Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Primary Care.

Context: Primary care practice.

Objective: To test whether the principles of complex adaptive systems are applicable to implementation of team-based primary care.

Design: We used complex adaptive system principles to implement team-based care in a private, five-clinic primary care practice.