Our experiences studying exemplar primary care practices, and our work assisting other
practices to become more patient centered, led to a formulation of the essential elements of …

PURPOSE Peer health coaches offer a potential model for extending the capacity of primary
care practices to provide self-management support for patients with diabetes. We conducted …

BACKGROUND Peer health coaching is an effective method of enhancing self-management
support in patients with diabetes. It is unclear whether peer health coaching is equally …

Adult primary care in the United States faces a dilemma. Many patients report poor access to
their primary care clinician. Yet the growing demand for primary care leads to high levels of …

Introduction: Primary care is changing to a team-based model. A number of high-performing
primary-care practices in the United States have succeeded in making the transition to team-…

Background Although self-management support improves diabetes outcomes, it is not
consistently provided in health care settings strained for time and resources. One proposed …

… AMIREH GHOROB, MPH … On June 26 at 1 pm CDT, Amireh Ghorob, MPH, and Lauren
Scherer, MS,will present a one-hour online seminar titled "Health Coaching: Practical …

Everyone agrees that health care is a team sport. But creating and nurturing successful
teams has proven to be difficult. 1 Basketball enthusiasts and primary care team champions …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to explore the perspectives and roles of peer coaches,
who are patients with diabetes trained to provide diabetes self-management support (…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of peer coaches associated
with improvement in diabetes control among low-income patients with type 2 diabetes. …