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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/index.html
April 01, 2022 - Research and Results: What We've Learned
The goal of EvidenceNOW is to assist primary care practices … The second goal of EvidenceNOW is to improve primary care practices' capacity for implementing evidence … Access snapshot of EvidenceNOW practices (PDF, 838 KB). … Access practice capacity for EvidenceNOW practices (PDF, 782 KB). … How external support is organized to help practices change and improve.
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pbrn.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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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/interim-reports.html
September 01, 2023 - barriers and facilitators to establishing a cooperative, and the strategies used to recruit participating practices … 1.8 MB) highlights barriers and facilitators to establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices … Key findings revealed by both reports:
Having prior relationships with practices is critical to formation … engaging these partners early would have improved the development process
Building a "network of practices … is a barrier to engagement and retention, and system affiliation of practices makes this particularly
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/index.html
June 01, 2023 - (ISCR) Toolkit helps hospitals improve patients' surgical experience by adopting enhanced recovery practices … Enhanced recovery practices are evidence-based processes that are supported by multidisciplinary teams … using enhanced recovery practices. … the scope, then implementing and measuring program impact, and finally sustaining enhanced recovery practices … perioperative team can download and use to standardize surgical techniques using enhanced recovery practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/impactaw/index.html
September 01, 2012 - This funding also is intended to further the expansion of existing programs, allowing primary care practices … current initiative by integrating lessons learned in teaching the Medical Home model, facilitating practices … will be tested in partnership with the PA Area Health Education Center (AHEC) network of preceptor practices … Information Technology Regional Extension Center to small and medium-sized independent primary care practices … Adopt quality improvement models and strategies by primary care practices.
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pbrn.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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pbrn.ahrq.gov/pbrn-registry/building-investigative-practices-better-health-outcomes-research-network
January 01, 2012 - PBRN Registry Map
Advanced Search
PBRN Summary Slides
Building Investigative Practices … Family Medicine Clinicians) Mission Statement: To transform a network of undifferentiated private practices … in to a community of reflective, investigative practices and their patients; thereby, enhancing the … Health risk assessment Approximate Number of PBRN Member Licensed Clinicians: 79 Approximate Number of Practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories.html
March 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW initiative has helped more than 1,500 small-and medium-sized primary care practices … One in three of these practices operates in medically underserved areas, 75 percent have five or fewer … Profiles of Primary Care
Explore these stories of EvidenceNOW primary care practices :
A solo urban … Get to know these and other primary care practices participating in EvidenceNOW—who they are, the challenges … positive impact EvidenceNOW has had in communities across the United States , including:
Helping practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/registry/building-investigative-practices-better-health-outcomes-research-network.html
January 01, 2012 - Funding Opportunities
About the National Center
Building Investigative Practices … January 1, 2005
Network Mission Statement:
To transform a network of undifferentiated private practices … in to a community of reflective, investigative practices and their patients; thereby, enhancing the … assessment
Approximate Number of PBRN Member Licensed Clinicians:
79
Approximate Number of Practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/administration.html
March 01, 2021 - key administrative aspects that were particularly challenging included recruiting and then retaining practices … some tips derived from the experiences of the EvidenceNOW Cooperatives on recruiting and retaining practices … AHRQ EvidenceNOW initiative set a goal of recruiting over 1500 small and medium sized primary care practices … The EvidenceNOW Tipsheet on Recruitment and Retention describes mechanics of identifying practices … , provides examples of value proposition statements, and ideas on how to keep practices engaged throughout
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/quality/index.html
September 01, 2022 - program used practice facilitation to improve delivery of heart health services among primary care practices … EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity : This program uses practice facilitation to help practices develop … EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use : This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices … Managing Urinary Incontinence in Women : This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices … Highlighted Resources
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change : Tools to help primary care practices and practice
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/precautions/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Edition
The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 3rd edition, can help primary care practices … This Toolkit contains 23 tools designed for busy practices. … The Toolkit can help practices with little or no experience addressing health literacy, as well as those … Toolkit Testing
Earlier editions of this Toolkit were tested in primary care practices and community … Just like these practices, your practice can benefit from this resource.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/results/index.html
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 … Practice Facilitation: Findings
Practice facilitation is a service provided to support primary care 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
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/index.html
December 01, 2023 - These resources range from networks of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer … how to integrate behavioral health and primary care, to practice facilitation support to primary care practices … Research Networks
Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs) are groups of primary care clinicians and practices … Practice Facilitation
Practice facilitation is an approach to supporting improvement in primary care practices … Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/midwest.html
March 01, 2021 - to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices … that provide a variety of quality improvement services typically not available to small primary care practices … The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to help … Reach
Number of Participating Practices: 216
Practice characteristics
Location
89.9 percent … Practices were assigned either to point-of-care strategies alone or point of care plus population management
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/telemedicine.html
January 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use is recruiting primary and urgent care practices … that use telemedicine for a no-cost, 18-month national program to strengthen antibiotic prescribing practices
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module3/module3_pu-bestpractices.docx
June 12, 2018 - Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention
Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury … Your current prevention program may include these best practices. … We talked about your current practices in the last module. … This slide shows best practices for preventing medical device-related pressure injuries. … tool, and reviewed optimal care planning practices for pressure injury prevention.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/index.html
March 01, 2023 - importance of providing high-quality care that relies on a culture of safety and evidence-based clinical practices … materials in one of three ways:
Assess Looking to understand your ICU's current clinical and safety practices … By including the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices, this … The first access point, Assess , supports teams to assess current practices and create a plan to move
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu3.html
October 01, 2014 - How do we implement best practices in our organization?
5. … How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices?
6. … How do we sustain the redesigned prevention practices?
7. … Educate staff as to best practices.
Improve care planning. … that to desired practices outlined on the clinical pathway.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/pediatrics.pdf
July 13, 2015 - Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) bring together
primary care practices, health services researchers … This
cross-sectional study with 19 pediatric practices in a Midwestern
PBRN, sought to describe the … For non-seasonal vaccines
recommended for adolescents, many GR-PBRN and CORNET practices reported using … Obesity prevalence varied among practices, from 7.5% to 26.9%. … in 1 State)
Building Investigative Practices for Better Health Outcomes
Research Network (BIGHORN