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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/facilitation/qi-kickoff-checklist.html
April 01, 2021 - Primary Care Quality Improvement (QI) Kick-off Meeting Checklist
Resource: Kick-Off Visit Checklist
This resource presents a checklist to help practice facilitators prepare for, conduct, and follow up after a meeting to kick-off a quality improvement project. Developed by the University of Oklahoma Health S…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/facilitation/qi-tracking.html
April 01, 2021 - Primary Care Quality Improvement (QI) Tracking Worksheet
Resource: Clinic Intervention Tracking Sheet
This quality improvement intervention tracking sheet helps primary care practices and practice facilitators assess and monitor efforts to improve heart health outcomes. Designed for tracking interventions u…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/facilitation/qi-report.html
April 01, 2021 - Primary Care Quality Improvement (QI) Progress Tracker: Template
Resource: Practice Progress Notes Template
This reporting template can be used by practice facilitators to track progress on goals and measures for quality improvement projects. It can help facilitators plan their own work and keep the primary…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37752/psn-pdf
May 07, 2019 - Guidance for the Safe Use of Automated Dispensing
Cabinets.
May 7, 2019
Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/guidance-safe-use-automated-dispensing-cabinets
Drug dispensing systems have been adopted in hospitals to prevent medication errors, but accidents
associ…
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/intervention.html
June 01, 2021 - Choosing an Intervention and Measuring Change
A decision on an intervention should be informed by input from frontline staff and the antibiotic stewardship team. The Staff Safety Assessment Form and the Learning from Antibiotic-Associated Adverse Events Form will help your team obtain that information. Th…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/aspirin/detailing.html
August 01, 2018 - Aspirin Use Academic Detailing Guide for Practices
Resource title: Aspirin Use in Primary Care
Resource description: This facts-at-a-glance handout for clinicians summarizes evidence, risk, benefits, and recommendations for using aspirin for primary and secondary prevention of heart disease.
Document aut…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/aspirin/facilitator-checklist.html
August 01, 2018 - Aspirin Use Care: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource title: Aspirin Use Care: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource description: This checklist and associated materials are designed to be used with primary care practices to increase aspirin use for secondary prevention of cardiovascular dise…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/primary-prevention.html
September 01, 2018 - Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events With Statins
Resource title: Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Events with Statins
Resource description: This webinar slide deck and script reviews recommendations for lipid testing and CVD risk assessment, using assessment results and patient pre…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/facilitator-checklist.html
September 01, 2018 - Cholesterol Management: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource title: Cholesterol Management: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource description: This two-page checklist and associated materials provide information on working with primary care practices to address cholesterol management.
Documen…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/outreach.html
September 01, 2018 - Automated Outreach & Adherence to Cholesterol-Lowering Medication
Resource title: Automated Outreach to Increase Primary Adherence to Cholesterol-Lowering Medications .
Resource description: This journal article summarizes findings from a randomized controlled trial that evaluated an automated system for im…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/control-spn.html
September 01, 2018 - Control Cholesterol Numbers: Patient Education Booklet (Spanish)
Resource title: How To Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: How To Control Your Cholesterol Numbers (Spanish)
Resource description: This patient education booklet in Spanish and in the form of a fotonovela (an illustrated pamphlet popular in Mexi…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/control.html
September 01, 2018 - Control Cholesterol Numbers: Patient Education Booklet
Resource title: How To Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: How To Control Your Cholesterol Numbers
Resource description: This patient education booklet in the form of a fotonovela (an illustrated pamphlet popular in Mexico and Latin America) covers basics…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/smoking/facilitator-checklist.html
August 01, 2018 - Smoking Cessation: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource title: Smoking Cessation: Tasks for the Practice Facilitator
Resource description: This two-page checklist and associated materials outline working with primary care practices to increase the rate of smoking cessation counseling for patients wh…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/smoking/detailing.html
August 01, 2018 - Smoking Cessation Academic Detailing Guide for Practices
Resource title: Smoking Cessation in Primary Care
Resource description: This facts-at-a-glance handout for clinicians summarizes evidence, risks, benefits, and recommendations for counseling patients and choosing a treatment plan for smoking cessatio…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/health-coach-intervention.html
August 01, 2023 - Sustainability Plan for Health Coaching
Resource: Health Coach Intervention Sustainability Plan (PDF, 401 KB, 17 pages)
This document includes guidance and information (including CPT codes) that staff can use for Medicare reimbursement for the health coaching sessions that they provide for patients. Health …
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/faq/index.html
January 01, 2019 - guidance documents are designed to meet standards of informed consent and patient privacy consistent with institutional … Organizations requesting the dataset must submit Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of the proposed
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/hotline/eval4.html
May 01, 2016 - leaders, patient-relations leaders, legal staff, risk management staff (at one organization only), and Institutional … Contact made with the patient involved.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r18hs026432-03s1-rudin-final-report-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - The Institutional
Review Boards of MGB and the RAND Corporation approved all study procedures. … The Institutional Review Boards of
MGB and the RAND Corporation approved all study procedures.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/dementia-databases-methods_research.pdf
May 01, 2008 - across the settings was also
found despite the different method of measuring medication use, with institutional … The cost of
institutional care in Alzheimer's disease: nursing
home and hospital use in a prospective
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/pneumonia-antibiotic-treatment_executive.pdf
November 01, 2014 - stewardship
programs to employ to improve antibiotic use.37 In fact, the
IDSA guidelines for developing an institutional … Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology
of America guidelines for developing an institutional