Patients with chronic conditions

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Paraphrase brief and make it easily understand "A model that was developed by the American Academy of Family Practitioners to care for patients with chronic conditions, to encourage and facilitate a patient's (and family's) involvement in his or her own care. The premise encourages and facilitates the patient's (and family's) involvement in his or her own care. The PCMH also encourages a primary care physician approach to patient care. This is also the premise of many managed care insurance plans that require a "gatekeeper" to reduce redundancy and overutilization of testing and services and to provide overall more efficient and effective healthcare.

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