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  Envisioning New Roles for Medical Assistants: Strategies from Patient-Centered Medical Homes

  Naughton D, Adelman AM, Bricker P, Miller-Day M, Gabbay R. Envisioning new roles for medical assistants: strategies from patient-centered medical homes. Fam Pract Manag. 2013 Mar-Apr;20(2):7-12. PMID: 23547608.

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  Expanding the Roles of Medical Assistants: Who Does What in Primary Care?

  Bodenheimer T, Willard-Grace R, Ghorob A. Expanding the roles of medical assistants: who does what in primary care? JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Jul;174(7):1025-6. PMID: 24820220.

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  High Plains Community Health Center—Redesign Expands Medical Assistant Roles

  Learn how one LEAP site has expanded the MA role. High Plains CHC in Colorado has three Patient Facilitators per care team who rotate front and back office tasks, coordinate referrals, do immunizations, and bring everything necessary to the patient into one room during visits.

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  The Teamlet Model of Primary Care

  The teamlet model of 1 provider with 2 MA health coaches is described in this article. Bodenheimer T, Laing BY. The teamlet model of primary care. Ann Fam Med. 2007. Sep-Oct;5(5):457-61. PubMed PMID: 17893389; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2000308.

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  Saving Time and Improving Efficiency with Team Documentation

  This article clearly articulates how well-trained clinical assistants (MAs, LPNs, or RNs) can help improve the practice with team documentation (their preferred word for "scribing" because the role involves contributing to clinical care, not just recording the visit). Hopkins K, Sinsky CA. Team-based care: saving time and improving efficiency.
  Fam Pract Manag. 2014 Nov-Dec;21(6):23-9. PubMed PMID: 25403048.

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