The medical home, health services, and clinical family medicine research

This September/October 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine ( JABFM ) features a multifaceted discussion on the medical home, plus a selection of health services research and clinical research with a broad base of funding, investigators, and spectrum of primary care settings. Here we highlight studies that provide new/clarifying results, ^{1 – 5} mixed results, ^{6 – 8} and unexpected results. ^{6 , 7} Several reports provide information and data on major tenets of family medicine: Clark et al ⁶ studied continuity between prenatal care and infant care; Mainous et al ⁵ described the long-term personal history importance to future risk of disease; and Merenstein and Merenstein ⁹ provide patient feedback on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship.