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This section includes tools and resources that ÂÜÀòÊÓƵdeveloped, in collaboration with experts in primary care, to advance primary care research and improve the quality and safety of primary care. These tools and resources help researchers and evaluators to design and evaluate primary care research, decision makers to implement practices for primary care transformation, and clinicians to enhance the delivery of primary care by improving care teams, care processes, and achieving best practices.
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1 to 25 of 26 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis resource provides guidance for existing programs that seek to become financially sustainable.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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This handbook provides in-depth information and techniques to help primary care practices use electronic health records and other health IT for quality improvement efforts. It features helpful tips, examples, and use cases to support the use of health IT for QI efforts.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
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The CDS Connect Project is a program of grants and contracts aimed at helping healthcare providers move patient-centered outcomes research evidence into practice through clinical decisionmaking.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Program
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These free, interactive training modules introduce some of the basic skills that practice facilitators need. They give new facilitators a solid foundation and give experienced facilitators a refresher on specific people and technical skills.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Training
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ePROs in Clinical Care Toolkit helps healthcare systems develop and apply electronic patient-reported outcomes to improve patient care.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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This project presents findings on how to configure and pay for the workforce that is needed to deliver fully comprehensive, high-quality care across the U.S. population.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Resource
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The EvidenceNOW key driver diagram shows what practices need to do to achieve the aim of successfully translating evidence into improved care. Learn about the six key drivers—big changes that practices make to keep pace with changing evidence—and their associated change strategies—specific actions that support the achievement of that key driver.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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This toolkit provides information and resources to help physicians' offices, clinics, and other ambulatory care facilities assess and improve the laboratory testing process in their offices.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Toolkit
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The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit is a resource to help clinicians and clinical informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the CAP clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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This primary care transformation initiative redesigned its care teams and their workflows. Under this "Delegate Model," physicians assign tasks that they used to perform to trained care team medical assistants (CTMAs). The goal of delegation was to reduce the physicians' administrative burden, boost clinic capacity, and better support prevention and chronic disease management.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Resource
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This survey helps health care providers better understand the kind of organizational environment that supports positive patient experience, and provides strategies to improve the patient experience.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Survey
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AHRQ’s Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum (PCPF) is designed to be used by practice facilitation programs in the training of new practice facilitators. Each of the 32 modules contains a Trainer’s Guide, and a list of readings and activities designed to develop basic knowledge and skills.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Training
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The ÂÜÀòÊÓƵPBRN Resource Center has created a new resource document to facilitate the expansion of business relationships between PBRNs and outside organizations including accountable care organizations (ACOs), public health departments, and other health-related entities. In the ever-evolving health care landscape, these health-related entities are increasingly required to initiate, assess, and report quality improvement (QI) efforts. With their experience designing, executing, and evaluating QI activities, PBRNs are well positioned to provide their expertise to others via training or technical assistance. This document describes existing and anticipated QI synergies between PBRNs and ACOs and similar organizations.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
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The Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) Resource Center developed this resource document to help PBRNs align their infrastructure and activities to support physicians in meeting MOC Part IV (quality/practice improvement) requirements. so they can engage in quality/practice improvement as a part of their commitment to patients.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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The Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) Resource Center developed this document that provides resources and advice for conducting rapid-cycle research to identify problems that need to be solved, solutions that work in real world settings and study methods that can accelerate the research cycle.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records examines features needed in pediatric electronic health record systems to ensure quality care for children.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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How a Practice Facilitator Can Support Your Practice educates primary care practices interested in getting started with quality improvement activities about the benefits of working with a practice facilitator (quality improvement coach).
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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This guide shows practice facilitators strategies on how to engage primary care practices in quality improvement.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This white paper describes factors that support the use of health information technology for quality improvement in primary care, discusses exemplary cases, and makes recommendations to support and increase the use of health IT to improve care delivery and population health outcomes.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: White Paper
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This white paper describes approaches practice facilitators can take to engage primary care practices in ongoing quality improvement (QI) activities.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: White Paper
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Primary care practice facilitation training programs.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Case Study
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The ÂÜÀòÊÓƵAcademy offers numerous tools and resources to help integrate behavioral health and primary care, including playbooks, measures, and lexicons.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
This survey assesses both adult and pediatric patients' experiences with healthcare providers and staff in doctors' offices. Survey results can be used to improve care provided by individual providers, sites of care, medical groups, or provider networks and to equip consumers with information to choose providers.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Survey
Publication Date: Ongoing
A comprehensive resource and guide for organizations that produce and disseminate reports to consumers on the quality of care provided by health care organizations (e.g., hospitals, health plans, medical groups, nursing homes) and individual physicians.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
State-specific healthcare quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
