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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/north-carolina.html
March 01, 2021 - Many practices have shown significant improvements, regardless of which measures the practices chose … Prescribing for statins is up by 50 percent across participating practices. … as well as baseline practice member surveys from 86 percent of the final enrolled practices. … All practices are now submitting at least two ABCS measures and more than 90 percent of practices have … Over 90 percent of practices have access to CVD risk stratification tools.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight13.html
June 01, 2015 - Facilitators in all nine States visited practices, were available by telephone, and provided practices … practices compared with 5.44 for comparison practices).
… and March 2012 for the comparison practices; Time 2 (T2) is November 2012 for the participating practices … and comparison practices. … with Medical Home Index-Revised Short Form scores for comparison practices (8 practices at T1, 9 practices
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-28-using-the-ahrq-care-model.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Use the toolkit to support improvement work with practices. … • Share parts of the toolkit with practices when working on those key changes. … • Train the practices to use the toolkit as a resource. … Test the links in the
toolkit before you ask practices to use them. … Suggestions for Using the Care Model Toolkit With Practices
Reference
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/evidence-now-snapshot-practices.pdf
August 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices … Demographic data show the range of
diversity among the practices across a variety of
characteristics … Across these practices, 99% use electronic health records. … Across these practices, 99% use electronic health records. … Patient characteristics represent averages across practices.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/best-practices.html
January 01, 2013 - Hospitals Training Program
Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit
Tool 3P: Best Practices … Which fall prevention practices do you want to use?
4. … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices?
6. … Tools and Resources
Appendix: Bibliography of Studies Implementing Fall Prevention Practices
References … Best Practices Checklist
Practice
Date Completed
Identify a set of best practices
Create
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/index.html
February 01, 2024 - Which fall prevention practices do you want to use?
4. … Which fall prevention practices should you use?
3.2. … Checklist for best practices 4. … How do you put the new practices into operation?
4.4. … Checklist for implementing best practices 5.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight01.html
March 01, 2019 - , and appropriate for busy practices. … and timely information about child-serving practices’ performance on selected measures. … Involving practices in data collection . All of the States are relying on data from practices. … How involved the practices are in data collection depends on the measure. … Provide support to practices actively participating in data collection.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/national.html
March 01, 2021 - The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to help … What were practices' experiences with the support they received? … What changes did practices make? … Why were practices able to make changes in their quality and capacity, or why not? … Visiting so many practices located across the US presents both a challenge for the national evaluation
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity/obpcp-why.html
May 01, 2014 - Reports and Other Publications
Funding Opportunities
Integrating Primary Care Practices … Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based … potential for improving eating and physical activity behaviors by effectively linking primary care practices … Over a 2-year period we worked with eight primary care practices and community-based health coalitions … tailored to rural settings, we anticipate that many of the strategies will be beneficial for urban practices
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen4a.html
April 01, 2018 - To recruit these practices, LVHN study staff needed to contact 43 practices, for a successful recruitment … to the practices as intended. … for all practices. … We only compared the card rates in these practices to those in the other intervention practices. … , large practices, and suburban practices.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/opioids/implementing-what-works/compendium-intro.html
January 01, 2024 - The participating practices were a mix of academic medical centers focusing on geriatrics, mid-sized … Based on the experience of participating practices, we refined and finalized the Compendium. … Innovative resources and tools developed by the practices that participated in the learning collaboratives … Practices can select any HLC that reflects their priority and any, or all, strategies and activities … We strongly encourage practices and systems to engage patients in the quality improvement process using
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/responsibilities.html
January 01, 2013 - Preventing Falls in Hospitals
Tool 4A: Assigning Responsibilities for Using Best Practices … Which fall prevention practices do you want to use?
4. … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices?
6. … Tools and Resources
Appendix: Bibliography of Studies Implementing Fall Prevention Practices
References … What practices will we use?
Who will be responsible?
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/evidence-now-improving-capacity.pdf
January 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Helping Small Primary Care Practices Build Capacity for Quality Improvement … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Helping Small Primary Care Practices
Build Capacity for Quality Improvement
One … of the main goals of EvidenceNOW is increasing the capacity of primary care practices to implement evidence … For example, practices with capacity for quality improvement are eager to learn from mistakes, create … but had
room for growth.
69%
Over two thirds of
practices already use
teams to focus on
quality
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.html
July 01, 2015 - enhanced payments based on the practices’ PCMH recognition scores. … Helped practices obtain PCMH recognition. … Community health teams working with pediatric practices and care coordinators within the practices told … Helped practices use electronic data to improve care. … The electronic registry was most useful for practices without EHRs.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/gabbay.html
October 01, 2015 - This project included 25 adult primary care practices, including private practices, Federally Qualified … Health Centers, and practices belonging to health systems. … Approaches to PCMH transformation varied across the 25 practices. … least-improved practices. … practices.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/cost/app-a.html
July 01, 2015 - Out of 76 practices participating in the program, 25 (33%) achieved 2008 NCQA PCMH recognition; 22 practices … PCMH practices. … centers
Practices participated in a 3-year demonstration project, which engaged primary care practices … The extent of PCMH transformation varied across practices. … care practices
The six participating practices were already providing or considering whether to offer
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/characteristics.html
February 01, 2017 - Out of 76 practices participating in the program, 25 (33%) achieved 2008 NCQA PCMH recognition; 22 practices … PCMH practices. … centers
Practices participated in a 3-year demonstration project, which engaged primary care practices … The extent of PCMH transformation varied across practices. … care practices
The six participating practices were already providing or considering whether to offer
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/resources.html
July 01, 2022 - Practices can have their own personalities. … care practices’ capacity to make changes needed to implement heart health evidence. … Tables, Graphs, Dashboards, & Reports: Data Visualization Best Practices (PDF, 711 KB) offers best practices … Practices Excel spreadsheet to create run charts to track their progress in QI. … skills taught in the module Helping Practices Scale Improvements.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen3.html
April 01, 2018 - Assignment was by a mixture of cluster allocation of practices to either the intervention (15 practices … practice business services from LVHN, H for LVPG practices, M for MATLV practices, S for unaffiliated … Three control practices (CHA, CHB, and CUA) and seven intervention practices (IHA, IHE, IHF, IHH, IHI … practices). … within these practices nor compare them with pre-post differences in intervention practices.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/index.html
September 01, 2023 - However, many primary care practices continue to struggle to find and incorporate the best evidence from … The availability and types of QI support differ significantly across States, which leaves many practices … Having QI support systems in place may be particularly beneficial for practices in States with higher … Build a network of primary care practices and related stakeholders across the State that can use the … comprehensive, evidence-based approach for a heart health improvement project involving 50 or more practices