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241. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2019 - In very small practices, the QI Team may encompass the entire staff. … Larger practices may have more than one person serve as Data Coordinators. … No one team size or structure will work for all practices. … In other cases, practices will need to provide additional training. … Some practices obtain feedback by administering brief surveys.

242. Vt-Spotlight (pdf file)
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     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 … • Helped practices use electronic data to improve care. … The electronic registry was most useful for practices without EHRs.

243. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children's health quality? Evaluation Highlight #13 (pdf file)
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     September 08, 2015 - practices compared with 5.44 for comparison practices). … Comparison Practices Figure 2. … and comparison practices. … with Medical Home Index-Revised Short Form scores for comparison practices (8 practices at T1, 9 practices … at T2, 10 practices at T3). 14.

244. EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - Accelerating the uptake and use of evidence by primary care practices has the potential to improve care … Goals The goals of EvidenceNOW are ambitious and include-- Helping primary care practices implement … evidence to improve the quality of heart health care Helping practices identify ways to build their … EvidenceNOW created 7 regional cooperatives working with more than 1,500 primary care practices across … Our goal is that each of these practices will meet the national target of 70 percent of all patients

245. AcademyHealth State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) Web Conference | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2016 - CHIPRA practices had higher performance on this measure than Medicaid overall in each year. … CHIPRA practices had higher performance on this measure than Medicaid overall in each year. … On average, practices has a 5.1 percent increase. … Among the 21 practices, 18 increased their vaccination rates. … It compares First STEPS Phase II practices to practices statewide for 3 time periods: May-July 2012,

246. Multimethod Evaluation of Physician Group Incentive Programs for PCMH Transformation (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Practices enrolled in the program worked to implement a PCMH model defined by BCBSM that encompassed … To aid practices in implementing the PCMH model, subject matter expert teams composed of physicians … Number and Type of Practices This project involved 2,432 primary care practices of varying structure … Practices included adult and pediatric populations, and 60% were solo practices. … Practices that were already struggling to address competing demands and small practices that were not

247. Module 8—Injection Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2022 - Injection Safety This module provides an overview of injection safety, along with a review of recommended practices … and the consequences of failure to follow safe injection practices. … module, participants will be able to: 1. define injection safety, 2. describe recommended safe injection practices … and the harms that can result from failing to follow them, 3. incorporate safe injection practices into … the infection prevention and control program, and 4. specify how to respond if unsafe injection practices

248. AHRQ Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT) Grants: A Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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     July 22, 2015 - and a chance for practices to share their experiences with QI. … Oklahoma engaged practices via the newly certified CHIOs. … HEROs link practices to needed resources by visiting practices, administering needs assessments, and … Nine practices participated in the Care Transitions Collaborative. 111 physicians and 39 practices … PCMH recognition was not the focus of participating practices.

249. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - with what we’re learning about putting evidence into practice, the experiences of small primary care practices … Care Landscape: Findings What does the state of primary care look like for small- and medium-size practices … by a trained individual or team who use a range of approaches and methods to build the practices’ capacity … Improving the ABCS of Heart Health: Findings EvidenceNOW was designed to assist primary care practices … Other Findings EvidenceNOW evaluators are exploring a wide range of issues that affect primary care practices

250. Physician Burnout | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - Researchers found that practices that implemented electronic health records saw in increase in stress … of Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, created the Mini Z Burnout Survey that lets practices … to advance heart heath, while also building the capacity of primary care practices to incorporate evidence … Through tailored practice facilitation that responds to the needs and challenges of individual practices … Conclusion Burnout takes a toll on physicians, their patients, and their practices.

251. New Resource Developed To Help Address Burnout in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2023 - AHRQ Grantee Provides Primary Care Practices With Quality Improvement Strategies . … Implementing effective strategies to address burnout that can be tailored to fit practices’ needs. … AHRQ Grantee Provides Primary Care Practices With Quality Improvement Strategies AHRQ grantee Abel … Kho has built multi-institutional collaborations to help smaller practices improve patients’ heart health … The training is open to adult and family primary care clinics, gynecology practices, community-based

252. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - Increase practices’ capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. 3. … can find and share announcements, ideas, insights, and promising practices. … Update Virginia recruited 240 practices, 208 of which are still active. … It currently has collected data on the ABCS measures from 124 practices. … that practices could run their own data reports.

253. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - In addition, practices participated in collaborative learning sessions, conference calls, and group … All participating practices reported monthly clinical quality measures. … Number and Type of Practices This project included 76 primary care practices across North Carolina … Smaller practices were disproportionately affected by the costs of implementation because larger practices … Only 50 percent of practices had an electronic health record (EHR) at the outset of this project.

254. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Primary care transformation is a process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … Motivation and readiness to transform vary across practices. … For these practices, embracing the changes necessary to become a PCMH was a relatively easy process. … For other practices, however, these changes required a dramatic shift in existing mental models about … ; therefore, most practices need supplemental funding to help support transformation efforts.

255. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Primary care transformation is a process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … Motivation and readiness to transform vary across practices. … For these practices, embracing the changes necessary to become a PCMH was a relatively easy process. … For other practices, however, these changes required a dramatic shift in existing mental models about … ; therefore, most practices need supplemental funding to help support transformation efforts.

256. Spotlight on Alaska -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - the facilitators also helped the practices to implement quality improvement (QI) activities. … Two practices built developmental screening templates into their EHRs. … and at the State level as well.2 The State— • Helped practices report quality measures. … • Encouraged practices to improve measure performance. … unable to connect participating practices to other clinicians through the HIE.

257. Reports from the States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2019 - 2014 to provide information on how statewide quality improvement has changed in Maine’s child-serving practices … and nearly two-thirds of all pediatric practices in Maine about how they use data, clinical guidelines … Within a Pediatric Medical Home The Massachusetts CHIPRA team produced this guide that will help practices … It outlines standards, resources, documentation requirements, and examples to help practices navigate … Baseline Results This report presents baseline results for Illinois CHIPRA quality demonstration practices

258. Key Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2015 - Definitions of High-Performance Work Practices Final Report: Executive Summary (continued … known to reduce or prevent HAIs and (2) whether implementation of these practices could be linked to … We found evidence of these practices as a critical component of CLABSI reduction efforts at all of the … Practices for acquiring and developing talent focus on improving the quality of the workforce through … These practices are an important component of the CUSP initiative, which emphasizes the importance of

259. Spotlight on Oregon -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - Oregon helped child-serving practices to enhance medical home features Oregon hired facilitators to … The facilitators worked individually with practices to guide QI activities. … Through a learning collaborative, the State also educated practices on the PCMH model and provided … Several practices reported that the staff responsible for care coordination had large caseloads. … • Practices hoped to maintain new care coordination and caregiver engagement strategies.

260. EvidenceNOW: Research Design and Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - 2) study if and how external quality improvement support helps small- and medium-sized primary care practices … EvidenceNOW also aimed to 3) determine what works best in developing practices’ capacity for continuous … Meyers et al., 2018 ] To achieve these goals, each cooperative was required to recruit at least 250 practices … , determine the PCOR findings to be disseminated to practices, propose an evidence-based approach to … QI support to practices, and design a rigorous evaluation to measure the effect of their external support