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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/pdsa-worksheet.html
November 01, 2018 - Worksheet for Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle Planning
Resource: PDSA Worksheet (PDF, 162 KB, 2 pages)
This worksheet is for primary care staff to help plan a quality improvement (QI) Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, outlining the QI goals and how the practice will try to reach them, as well as providing sp…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/oars-model.html
November 01, 2018 - Building Rapport with Patients: OARS Communication Skills
Resource: The OARS Model: Essential Communication Skills
This short tool describes OARS—a set of verbal and non-verbal communication skills that helps clinicians and educators in primary care practices to engage and build rapport with patients and a…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/patient-perspective.html
November 01, 2018 - Questions to Elicit Patients’ Beliefs and Social Context
Resource: Eliciting the Patient’s Perspective (PDF, 76 KB, 3 pages)
This tool introduces respectful questioning as a way to help clinicians understand their patients’ cultural health beliefs, their socioeconomic circumstances and stressors, and barri…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/care-management.html
November 01, 2019 - Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices
Resource: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 5.5 MB, 111 page)
This guide, based upon research on successful strategies used in practices with documented outcomes, helps primary care practices imple…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/reporting-instructions-baseline-sw.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Baseline Data Reporting Instructions
Southwest Cooperative
Resource: Baseline … Instructions (PDF, 1.5 MB, 18 pages)
This document provides baseline data reporting instructions for an EvidenceNOW … Institution of origin: University of Colorado at Denver
Permissions: Used with the permission of EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: EvidenceNOW Southwest, DartNet Institute, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … EvidenceNOW Initiative
Date: November 30, 2015
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/staff-survey-6mon-post-intervention-sw.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Post Intervention Staff Survey
Southwest Cooperative
Resource: Practice Member … Month—Southwest Cooperative (PDF, 1,5 MB, 5 pages)
This practice member survey was fielded by an EvidenceNOW … Institution of origin: University of Colorado at Denver
Permissions: Used with the permission of EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: EvidenceNOW Southwest, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/practice-survey-6mon-post-intervention-sw.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Post Intervention Practice Survey
Southwest Cooperative
Resource: Practice Survey … , 15 Month—Southwest Cooperative (PDF, 1.18 MB, 15 pages)
This practice survey was fielded by an EvidenceNOW … Institution of origin: University of Colorado at Denver
Permissions: Used with the permission of EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: EvidenceNOW Southwest, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/cost-survey.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Cost Survey, National Evaluator
Oregon Cooperative
Resource: EvidenceNOW: Cost … regarding personnel, consultant, subcontracting, and other direct costs related to implementing the EvidenceNOW … origin: Oregon Health & Science University
Permissions: Used with the permission of ESCALATES, the EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: ESCALATES, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/index.html
March 01, 2024 - The Solution—EvidenceNOW
In 2015, AHRQ launched EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health with four goals … EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health provided external support through seven Cooperatives to 1,500 small … EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health demonstrated promising results with practices participating in the … The EvidenceNOW model proved effective even when some initial assumptions—anticipated payment reform, … Videos Tell the EvidenceNOW story and Reveal Promising Findings
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/index.html
April 01, 2022 - Access snapshot of EvidenceNOW practices (PDF, 838 KB). … Access practice capacity for EvidenceNOW practices (PDF, 782 KB). … What Approach Is EvidenceNOW Using to Measure Success? … How Will EvidenceNOW Cooperatives Evaluate What Works Locally? … Learn more about the EvidenceNOW evaluation measures .
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/recruitment-call-script-ny.html
January 01, 2019 - EvidenceNOW: Recruitment Call Script
New York City Cooperative
Resource: Recruitment Call … Script, HealthyHearts NYC (PDF, 125 KB, 4 pages)
This document provides an example of an EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: HealthyHearts NYC, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/mui-screening-toolkit.html
June 01, 2025 - Incontinence Screening: A Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 4.6 MB) This toolkit was developed by the EvidenceNOW … About the Initiative The EN:MUI initiative, established by AHRQ in 2022, applies the successful EvidenceNOW … Additional information and resources can be found in the EvidenceNOW Tools for Change repository .
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/intervention-tracking-notes-sw.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: Intervention Tracking Field Note Form
Southwest Cooperative
Resource: Field Note … Form—Southwest Cooperative (PDF, 151.3 KB, 5 pages)
This implementation tracking form was used by an EvidenceNOW … Institution of origin: University of Colorado at Denver
Permissions: Used with the permission of EvidenceNOW … Acknowledgements: EvidenceNOW Southwest, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/tools-tip-sheets.html
June 01, 2025 - Team – Northwestern Medicine’s screening invitation language (in English & Spanish) used in their AHRQ EvidenceNOW
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/podcast-business-case.html
February 01, 2025 - Initiative
Acknowledgements: Heart Healthy Ohio Initiative, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr-text.html
April 01, 2019 - A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices (Text Description)
AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: … Use of EHRs Before EvidenceNOW
Before EvidenceNOW:
93 percent of primary care practices used EHRs … What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs Before EvidenceNOW? … Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs to share Data and Monitor Quality? … For more information about EvidenceNOW, visit www.ahrq.gov/EvidenceNOW .
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/en-bsc-interim-report-2.pdf
July 01, 2024 - AHRQ EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity: Interim Evaluation Report II
EvidenceNOW BSC: Interim … Evaluation Report II June 2023 ▌2-1
AHRQ EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity
INTERIM … EvidenceNOW BSC: Interim Evaluation Report II June 2023 ▌ii
Interim Report 2
AHRQ EvidenceNOW Technical … EvidenceNOW BSC: Interim Evaluation Report II June 2023 ▌v
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Acronym Meaning
ACC Alabama … EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity Research Questions
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/index.html
April 01, 2021 - Learn more about the origins of EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health . … The EvidenceNOW Model: Providing External Support for Primary Care
The EvidenceNOW Model for providing … The EvidenceNOW Model of external support to primary care practices was implemented by the seven EvidenceNOW … EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health focused on improving heart health , but the EvidenceNOW Model … This blueprint is the EvidenceNOW model of external support.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/interim-reports.html
January 01, 2025 - Final Reports The Final Evaluation Report (PDF, 1.4 MB) details the mixed-method evaluation of the EvidenceNOW … Practice-Level Data Report (PDF, 2 MB) is part two of the final report of the mixed-methods evaluation of EvidenceNOW
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/pclandscape.html
September 01, 2021 - Navigating the Primary Care Landscape through EvidenceNOW
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health … improvement specialists provided practice improvement support to primary care practices participating in EvidenceNOW … This video describes the unique experiences, challenges, and successes of implementing EvidenceNOW across … https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pdfzzHxI-Fc
Navigating the Primary Care Landscape through EvidenceNOW