RT Journal
A1 O’Malley PG
T1 First things first: Getting primary care right
JF JAMA Internal Medicine
JO JAMA Internal Medicine
YR 2013
FD January 14
VO 173
IS 1
SP 13
OP 14
DO 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1124
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1124
AB 
First, we need to define primary care, as the specialty focused on the primary and comprehensive health care needs of the patient. Because it is patient focused and not disease focused, the permutations of complexities of problems, presentations, and scenarios are infinite. From a health policy perspective, primary care is defined as care that is accessible, comprehensive, coordinated, continuous, and longitudinal. This framework has been helpful in studying and evaluating how primary care is delivered.1- 2 We need to give highest priority in health care reform to making a system of primary care that serves as the prime interface of the most care for the most people.