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41. Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Change Search for Tools & Resources Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices … Search for Tools & Resources Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices … Resource: Do It Yourself Run Chart  (XLSX, 86 KB) Primary care practices can use this Excel … By creating a visual display of their quality improvement progress, this tool can help practices use … originally created October 2018 Internet Citation: Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices

42. Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families in Evidence-Based Care and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Practices need to know how to identify patients who are affected by new evidence, communicate clearly … Practices can also convene groups of patients and families, as well as other members of the community … Some practices obtain feedback by administering brief surveys. … Practices should train staff in these skills and consider periodic refreshers. … Practices can establish protocols to identify affected patients as they come for appointments.

43. Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Small practices can start simply, using common sense and a can-do attitude to get the process going. … Practices that are part of larger systems may have more QI resources to draw on and likely will need … What matters is that practices choose at least one, learn how to use it, set goals, and start making … However, practices should recruit team members to lead QI work and carve out time to plan and execute … In very small practices, the QI Team may encompass the entire staff.

44. Making Healthcare Safer III | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer III reviews 47 practices that target patient safety improvement in hospitals, … primary care practices, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare settings. … and disinfection interventions to prevent HAIs, and several practices designed to prevent medication … Access a list of the 47 patient safety practices and the report’s executive summary  and structured … A set of tables  compares the patient safety practices among the three reports.

45. Key Driver 3: Optimize Health Information Systems to Extract Data and Support Use of Evidence in Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Practices may have focused their data efforts on producing information related to payment incentives … Practices gain efficiency by having a point person for data, a Data Coordinator, who has learned the … Small practices may have one person doing the Data Coordinator job on a very part time basis. … Larger practices may have more than one person serve as Data Coordinators. … Although practice-level data are useful, practices that link patients with individual clinicians and

46. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - medicine, and 26% pediatric medicine, mostly independent practices. 32 practices had more than 7 clinicians … All participating practices reported monthly clinical quality measures. … 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. … A number of practices added an EHR, or replaced/upgraded their existing EHR, during this project.

47. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Even before the pandemic, primary care practices were struggling with a healthcare landscape of practice … Deborah Cohen and others, revealed that, overall, primary care practices participating in EvidenceNOW … But given the scope of the initiative—we enlisted 1,500 small- to medium-sized primary care practices … EvidenceNOW also provided several insights on whether small- to medium-sized primary care practices would … EvidenceNOW Tools for Change is a collection of over 100 tools for primary care practices, practice

48. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism Venous Thromboembolism 16-1 16. … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices https … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices

49. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 12. Infusion Pumps (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 12. Infusion Pumps Infusion Pumps 12-1 12. … M.P.H., and Olivia Bacon Introduction In this chapter, we discuss two system-level patient safety practices … However, there is still limited research on best practices for reducing errors and improving infusion … Methods for Selecting Patient Safety Practices Initial literature searches for patient safety practices … Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

50. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 13. Alarm Fatigue (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 13. Alarm Fatigue Alarm Fatigue 13-1 13. … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Nurses’ perceptions and practices related to alarm management: A quality improvement initiative. … Nurses’ perceptions and practices related to alarm management: A quality improvement initiative. … and systems/operational practices to be key drivers of alarm frequency.

51. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 15. Care Transitions (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 15. Care Transitions Care Transitions 15-1 15. … Initial literature searches for patient safety practices (PSPs) in the harm area of care transitions … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices

52. 4. How Do We Implement Best Practices in Our Organization? (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - How Do We Implement Best Practices in Our Organization? … How do we pilot test the new practices? … How can we help staff learn new practices? … To help staff accept the new bundle of practices fully, ensure that they understand that those practices … test the new practices?

53. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical Home Recognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - practices; and practices affiliated with larger groups or owned by a hospital/health system. … All of the practices had fewer than five physicians, and one third were solo practices. … practices. … The resources available to the practices varied, even for those practices that had access to demonstration … information systems as higher barriers than Level 3 practices.

54. Health Care Transformation Among Small Urban Practices Serving the Underserved | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2015 - All the practices had five or fewer physicians; two thirds were solo practices and a majority were independent … Each of the practices served a diverse and disadvantaged patient population. … The practices implemented elements of the PCMH using existing resources, reflecting their small size … Many of the practices also implemented QI efforts to improve patient satisfaction. … The remaining practices did not pursue recognition.

55. Aseptic Catheter Insertion Practices in the Emergency Department | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - CAUTI in Hospitals Information for Specialty Audiences Aseptic Catheter Insertion Practices … Today's topic is aseptic catheter insertion practices in the ED. … I'm just so delighted to be with you today talking about aseptic catheter insertion practices in the … practice is recognized and rewarded, then everyone is more in-line and in agreement with performing practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/aseptic-catheter-practices-ed-transcript.html

56. Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety with Evidence-based Management Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2022 - “With AHRQ funding, I have been able to look at how we can use management practices, rather than just … McAlearney and her team developed an AHRQ resource, Using Workforce Practices to Guide Quality Improvement … The researchers also developed a predictive model linking particular workforce practices and quality … Through an AHRQ contract, she explored the role of hospital management practices in facilitating adoption … These include a management practices toolkit that contains an organization-specific data dashboard for

57. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices … Goals The goals of the CUSP implementation projects are to promote the adoption of evidence-based practices … create a powerful tool for promoting the adoption of evidence-based practices to prevent HAIs. … Improving surgical safety by promoting implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance surgical … The CUSP projects translate evidence into practice by accelerating the adoption of evidence-based practices

58. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Home Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Ambulatory Care Toolkit Learn Best Practices … Ambulatory Care Toolkit Four Moments Learn Strategies for Communicating Learn Best Practices … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses – Slides … (PPTX, 5.7 MB) Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/skin-soft-tissue.html

59. Quality Improvement in Primary Care: External Supports for Practices (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2014 - important for primary care practices? … , lessons learned, and best practices and draw motivation and inspiration. … What types of organizations provide QI support to primary care practices? … • Supports practices in identifying and achieving improvement goals; helps practices prioritize and … reaching many practices at once

60. Medical Home Transformation in Pediatric Primary Care – What Drives Change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - practices in this project, including independent and hospital-owned practices, an academic clinic, and … The practices varied in size, serving between 528 and 27,597 patients each. … The practices also partnered with patients and families to identify goals and care strategies, which … All six practices scored above the mean on national benchmarks. … Two practices reported success in using EHR for care plans and that reporting was within reach.