Health Affairs February 6, 2024
High-quality primary care is critical to promoting population health and advancing health equity, but the primary care system in the United States is in crisis with insufficient funding, growing workforce shortages, and declining access. The 2021 report “Implementing High-Quality Primary Care” from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) identified the need for primary care stakeholders to develop, compile, and disseminate a primary care scorecard for the United States that would pinpoint areas for improvement, advocate for essential policy changes, and establish heightened accountability to benefit patients and clinicians alike.
Much can be learned from experiences with primary care scorecards over the past decade and the recent release of national- and state-level scorecards in the US. Lessons from...
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