The expert panel of speakers:

Deborah Peikes Mathematica (Moderator)	Kristin Geonnotti Mathematica	Mimi Huizinga Vanderbilt University Medical Center	David Meyers Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Discussant)	Chad Boult Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (Discussant)	Aparajita Zutshi Mathematica

Leading health care experts discussed how methods used in engineering, political science, and clinical trials research could be applied to health services research. Forum speakers illustrated how these novel evaluation methods could be used to obtain rapid-cycle feedback; more generalized findings; and a better understanding of which features of the intervention, patients served, and organizational setting make a difference. In conjunction with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), researchers from Mathematica and other organizations also developed a series of briefs,that were presented at the forum, that explore how a combination of traditional health services research and these novel methods could be used to improve evaluations of patient-centered medical homes.