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The Quadruple Aim as a Framework for Integrative Group Medical Visits

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Integrative group medical visits (IGMVs) are a compelling health service delivery innovation for complementary and integrative health care (CIH). As explored in the recent JACM special issue on group-delivered services, IGMVs create an opportunity to expand access to CIH. Group medical visits (GMVs) emerged at the intersection of several concerns in U.S. health care: rising prevalence of chronic health conditions, with notable disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status; extremely high health care costs compared with other industrialized countries, and high rates of clinician burnout. GMVs combine medical care, health education, and peer support to treat a wide variety of health conditions. Although billable medical care in GMVs does not differ substantially from standard individual care, the presence of peers appears to provide additional benefits. IGMVs add CIH to existing GMV models, in response to CIH’s inaccessibility to many people due to limited insurance coverage and high out-of-pocket costs.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/t7t8-9c15

Authors: Thompson-Lastad, Ariana, Roth, Isabel, Thomas, A. Udaya

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies

Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health