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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices-012424.html
February 01, 2024 - Webcasts
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Best Practices … Slides
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About the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
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This webcast detailed best practices … Project Director
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Best Practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices-012424.html
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/primary-care-practices-delivering.html
October 01, 2023 - AHRQ leaders
During National Primary Care Week, AHRQ Celebrates the Tradition of Primary Care Practices … Perhaps most important, primary care practices offer continuity of care across a patient’s lifetime, … AHRQ pays tribute to the nation’s primary care practices for their unique and critical contributions … AHRQ looks forward to future advances as primary care practices build upon their tradition as Americans … https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/primary-care-practices-delivering.html
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr-text.html
April 01, 2019 - (Text Description)
AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … Cooperatives assessed practices’ electronic health record (EHR) and data capabilities, which are in … What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs Before EvidenceNOW? … What Types of Organizations Provided EHR Support to Practices Before EvidenceNOW? … Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs to share Data and Monitor Quality?
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/practices-and-practice-facilitators
December 01, 2011 - PCMH Resources for Practices and Practice Facilitators
In an effort to create a high-quality health … QI requires practices to assess performance continually, to plan changes and monitor their effects, and … External organizations that support primary care practices to build and sustain QI capacity may be QI … Ways practices and practice facilitators can work together to improve performance in primary care … PCMH Resources for Practices and Practice Facilitators
Tip Sheet
How a Practice Facilitator
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module3/module3_slides_best-practices.pptx
June 16, 2017 - Best Practices in Fall Prevention
Best Practices in
Fall Prevention
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Module 3 … Best Practices
Best practices are those care processes—based on literature and expert opinion—that … How to incorporate these practices into a Fall Prevention Program.
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Which Practices Should Be Used … The practices selected and used need to be tailored to your hospital and the type of patients and care … of best practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/health-it/opioids.html
September 01, 2022 - Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Abuse in Rural Primary Care Practices … We can expand access by engaging primary care practices—the places where most rural Americans receive … Doctors and nurses in these practices are trusted members of the community. … The practices involved in the initiative will provide access to MAT to over 20,000 individuals struggling … The team will provide primary care practices with comprehensive training and support for delivery of
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/Engaging-practices-in-QI-exec-summary.pdf
March 01, 2015 - Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality
Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators
In an … .1 QI requires
practices to assess performance continually, to plan changes and monitor their effects … External organizations that support primary care practices to build and sustain QI capacity
may be … The professionals from these
organizations who support practices have a variety of titles; the term … Build trusted relationships with practices.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/ptsafetyuptp.html
July 01, 2023 - review, and to select which practices received in-depth reviews and which received brief reviews. … In-depth reviews assessed practices on the following domains:
How important is the problem? … , and those practices that were "encouraged" for adoption. … Results: From an initial list of over 100 patient safety practices, the stakeholders identified 41 practices … and 25 practices had at least "moderate" evidence of how to implement them.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/model/index.html
March 01, 2023 - The EvidenceNOW Model recognizes that small- and medium-sized primary care practices, which represent … Engage with primary care practices . … By allowing practices, and teams within practices, to gauge their performance relative to other similar … The extension service is a continuous resource for the practices with which it partners. … Practices may participate in some, but not all, of the initiatives led by the service.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs4/index.html
April 01, 2024 - Making Healthcare Safer IV
A Continuous Updating of Patient Safety Harms and Practices … Making Healthcare Safer reports I, II, and III have shown a positive impact of patient safety practices … This review will serve as a baseline for the evidence of harms and patient safety practices to prevent … A technical expert panel (TEP) was convened to prioritize which topics and patient safety practices, … A set of tables compares the patient safety practices among the reports.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/index.html
April 01, 2021 - Primary care practices also need to know how to collect and analyze their own data to make sure they’ … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … The EvidenceNOW Model recognizes that small- and medium-sized primary care practices, which represent … Linking hundreds of practices to regional health information exchanges. … and how to assist practices in using this research to deliver better care to their patients.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/care-management.html
November 01, 2019 - Tools & Resources
Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices … Resource: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 5.5 … MB, 111 page)
This guide, based upon research on successful strategies used in practices with documented … outcomes, helps primary care practices implement care management. … November 2019
Internet Citation: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
July 01, 2023 - that can improve patient safety across the healthcare system—from hospitals to primary care practices … The inaugural report consisted of 50 patient safety practices in eight categories encompassing commonly … That report added new evidence-based safety practices while updating some practices with new evidence … , and contained 41 patient safety practices. … A set of tables compares the patient safety practices among the reports.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/index.html
September 01, 2022 - In recent decades, primary care practices have been hampered by fragmentation of the healthcare system … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … Together they worked with more than 5,000 clinicians at more than 1,500 practices that serve about 8 … Together, the six grantees are expected to work with more than 700 primary care practices. … They will build statewide networks of primary care practices and provide selected practices with the
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/practice-facilitation/index.html
February 01, 2023 - Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make … Practice facilitation can:
Increase practices’ capacity to implement the best clinical evidence. … Connect practices to information, resources, and strategies to improve care. … Help practices overcome EHR challenges and optimize their EHR for meeting quality improvement goals. … Help practices harness patient and practice data to identify gaps in care and effects of improvement
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/quality/qipc/index.html
November 01, 2020 - What external supports can help practices with quality improvement? … , 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 … of reaching many practices at once
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/diy-run-chart.html
July 01, 2022 - 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
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr.html
April 01, 2019 - Incontinence
Tools for Change
A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices (PDF, 1.2 MB) … originally created December 2018
Internet Citation: A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/diagnosis/index.html
June 01, 2021 - Develop and Improve Stewardship Program
Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing
Best Practices … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Best Practices in the Diagnosis … and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of … difficile Infections
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis
Best Practices in
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/description.html
October 01, 2020 - 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.