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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202302.html
September 01, 2023 - Effective Health Care Program systematic reviews to inform a number of guidelines advising best treatment practices … practice guidelines, ACOG offers tools and resources to help OB/GYNs implement the guidelines into their practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sdoh/practice-improvement.html
August 01, 2023 - Its toolkit includes the four electronic health record (EHR) tools, technical resources, best practices … Learn about a tool to help primary care practices screen and refer patients for social needs such as
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Engaging-Patients-Presentation-020615.pdf
January 05, 2015 - design discussions
– Planning meetings and materials assistance (eAAP)
– Participate in meetings with practices … //www.fowlersgroup.com.au/blog/2012/10/finding-the-right-balance-for-you/
Engaging Patients and Practices … Engaging Patients and Practices
Results: Timeliness Challenges
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/tools.html
February 01, 2018 - The Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition can help primary care practices reduce … Brief for Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings explores fundamental questions about patient safety practices … disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections in dialysis patients by following clinical practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/AHRQ_PBRN_Webinar_Adaptive_Trial_Design_8.18.15.pdf
September 10, 2015 - – 9 primary care practices and 2 mental health centers
• Practices varied on the evidence-based strategies … Understanding Care Integration from the Ground Up: Five
Organizing Constructs that Shape Integrated Practices … Clinician Staffing, Scheduling, and Engagement Strategies among
Primary Care Practices Delivering Integrated … • Including control practices, when feasible, adds
rigor
Innovative Features
• Blends quality … 3: Assess multi-level contextual and explanatory factors�
�Principle 4: Audit and feedback to help practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursing-home-workplace-safety-resources.pdf
January 01, 2023 - CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All
Settings … https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/core-
practices/index.html? … The practices were selected from existing Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations … Civility Best Practices for Nurses
https://www.nursingworld.org/~4afd0d/globalassets/practiceandpolicy … • Best practices for promoting mental health and emotional well-being among nursing
home staff.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/putoolkit_module5_tools.docx
August 02, 2017 - Toolkit
Module 5 Tools
Action Plan Tool to Measure Pressure Ulcer Rates and Pressure Ulcer Prevention Practices … Ulcer Prevention Program
Module 5 Tools 1
Action Plan Tool to Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices … analysis is conducted for each fall with at least moderate level of injury
Measure Fall Prevention Practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/index.html
February 01, 2024 - million and funded three grant initiatives to better understand the challenges faced by primary care practices … Care Practice (TPC) grants that were funded to understand the "natural experiments" that primary care practices … funded 17 State-level initiatives to work together to build a support system to assist primary care practices … Stakeholders included independent primary care practices, health care systems, health care payers, and
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar01/sl_fuzzyset.ppt
May 14, 2013 - but not all primary care practices are PCMHs” “PCMHs are a subset of primary care practices”
Developed … For example, the fuzzy set of practices with NCQA PCMH certification may look like:
PCMH Certification … Scored practices on each feature, then inserted notes and later quotations
Patient access to program … Nesting of practices within PO’s; Is there variation by practice within a PO? … If all practices within a PO act similarly then use the PO level
Our decision - Separate by program
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Go to: AHRQ Tools
Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement:
Curricular … Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/KeyDriver_onepager.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Diagram
The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram shows six key drivers – big changes – that primary care practices … Seek and implement EvidenceImprove health care quality by
increasing the capacity of primary
care practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/about.html
November 01, 2018 - with the overarching aim of improving health care quality by increasing the capacity of primary care practices … advance the adoption of clinical and organizational evidence in small- and medium-sized primary care practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/index.html
October 01, 2022 - the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices … your practice, learning strategies for communicating about antibiotic prescribing, and learning best practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
December 01, 2015 - Ready for Change Self-
Assessment (Tool A.3)
• Improvement Methods Overview
(Tool D.1)
• Best Practices … Two tools were critical to gaining physician support: Best Practices for Central Venous Catheter
(CVC … The
results of the gap analysis revealed the areas in which the hospital’s practices diverged from … recognized best practices. … colleagues are exploring how this approach could work in
other clinical areas and as a way to improve practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/webinar/slides.html
June 01, 2018 - Guide
Six sections:
Hospital readiness for change
Managing change
Choosing fall prevention practices … Implementing best practices
Measuring fall rates and fall prevention practices
Program sustainability … Slide 15
Tool: Action Plan (2F)
Improvement Objective: Implement standard fall prevention practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement
These Advancing Pharmacy … Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement modules help pharmacy faculty integrate health
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-section-6a.pdf
July 27, 2017 - Finally, medical practices often realize cost and efficiency savings. … Implementation of This Model
The literature on open access suggests that medical practices can implement … To facilitate this difficult task, practices may want to set a target date and agree
that visits will … Some practices rely on
mathematical models for predicting demand, with mixed success. … To do this, the
group may need to see more patients each day for 6 to 8 weeks.7 A study of practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/sect4part2.html
January 01, 2020 - Practice Facilitators
Another common challenge for physician practices is not having the expertise, … PFs are full or part-time personnel hired or contracted to help medical practices evaluate and build … Disseminating best practices and innovative ideas. … Engaging primary care practices in quality improvement: Strategies for practice facilitators . … Practice enhancement assistants improve quality of care in primary care practices .
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/prevention/chronic-care/index.html
July 01, 2019 - and Techniques to Best Provide Affordable Care Act Covered Preventive Services addresses successful practices … ensure these efforts are successful, there is a need to build and sustain the ability of primary care practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/aspirin-use-pcor.pdf
November 01, 2016 - The EvidenceNOW goal is to have at least 70 percent of eligible
patients cared for in primary care practices … Healthcare Research and Quality grant initiative dedicated to helping small- and
medium-sized primary care practices … ,
Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management, and Smoking cessation—while helping primary care practices