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101. Enroll Now for Program on Improving Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

102. Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention (doc file)
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     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.

103. Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need? | PCMH Resource Center
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     October 01, 2011 - of 20 practices with 100 patients each. … Although including more comparison practices for a given number of intervention practices makes it slightly … (with 10 control practices). … MDEs fall as the number of practices increases, but even a study with 100 intervention practices (Figure … practices is likely to be difficult.

104. Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

105. 3. What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

106. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs—Program Snapshot: The Safety Net Medical Home Initiative (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Some work in teams while most work individually with practices Location of Services On site at practices … Eligible Practices Primary care safety net practices that applied to RCCs. … Qualis Health and MacColl observe how facilitators and practices interact and how practices are responding … Practices can follow them too.” … Facilitators also assess their practices using an additional tool that tracks practices’ overall transformation

107. Ensuring That Patient-Centered Medical Homes Effectively Serve Patients With Complex Health Needs | PCMH Resource Center
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     October 01, 2011 - Question: How can decisionmakers help smaller primary care practices become effective patient-centered … Supporting programs that collaborate with primary care practices to enhance their clinical capacity and … Primary care practices face many barriers to providing PCMH care to patients with complex needs. … Innovative programs support primary care practices to improve care for patients with complex needs. … Placing case managers/care coordinators in primary care practices.

108. Contact Us | PCMH Resource Center
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     January 08, 2021 - health quality improvement agency, AHRQ does not provide guidance or direct support to help individual practices … Although the National Resource Center is oriented toward pediatric practices, much of the information … applies across all types of primary care practices.   … How do I identify primary care practices in my state/area that are PCMHs? … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) does not maintain a list or database of practices

109. AHRQ EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity: Interim Evaluation Report II (pdf file)
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     January 31, 2024 - information to other practices. … The ACC lost one practice, both the HHOI and HH4M lost two practices, and the THHN lost four practices … HH4M PFs have been intentional about meeting practices where they are by letting the practices decide … recruit practices; whether practices are new to the cooperative or have collaborated in the past … • Communication among practices Modes, styles, and means of communicating among practices; examples

110. EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - The initiative builds on AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Model of external support to help primary care practices … Program Goals This project aims to use the EvidenceNOW Model of external support to primary care practices … outcomes research findings to improve nonsurgical treatments for UI among adult women in primary care practices … awarded 3-year grants to implement the goals to disseminate and implement the evidence in primary care practices … Urinary Incontinence Care for Women A range of resources, tools, and methods to support primary care practices

111. Disseminating Evidence into Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - Disseminating Evidence into Practice AHRQ disseminates the most up-to-date evidence and tools into practices … so that they can implement evidence-based practices to improve the care of their patients. … EvidenceNow Projects : AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW projects use practice facilitation to help primary care practices … EvidenceNOW Tools for Change : This curated repository of tools and resources helps primary care practices

112. Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - This website features evidence, examples, and lessons learned from primary care practices that have transformed … Policymakers, researchers, practices, and practice facilitators can access evidence-based resources about … resources  for implementing the PCMH model based on promising interventions made by leading primary care practices … Practice facilitators are typically external agents who work with primary care practices to make meaningful … resources for organizations that are interested in providing practice facilitation services to primary care practices

113. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs—Overview (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - • Transforming safety net primary care practices into patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) … • Building regional QI capacity • Transforming primary care practices into PCMHs • Supporting … On site at practices Technical assistance support from national hub is provided virtually by webinar … , phone, and email; on site PF services provided to practices in each of 5 regions On site at practices … ; facilitators are permanently assigned to practices Program Size 49 full-time equivalent (FTE)

114. Origin | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - Practices also need to know how to collect and analyze their own data to make sure they’re delivering … those changes while also caring for patients is challenging, especially for small- and medium-sized practices … where 88 percent of office visits take place. 1 Large practices and those affiliated with large health … Small- and medium-sized practices have fewer resources to keep up with these changes, but with support … as well as an opportunity to identify effective methods for increasing the capacity of primary care practices

115. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs—Program Snapshot: Vermont Blueprint's EQuIP Program (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Schedule and Duration Twice monthly visits to practices; facilitators are permanently assigned to practices … to 8-10 practices Eligible Practices Any primary care practice in the State that applies to participate … of the primary care practices in the State. … which currently allows the program to reach 125 practices. … The program aims to reach 200 practices, or 90 percent of the primary care practices in the State, by

116. 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.

117. Making Patients Part of Conversations About Their Care: Integrating Patient-Generated Health Data into Electronic Health Records | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - patients can easily collect their own health data outside of the clinical setting, many ambulatory care practices … a new guide on increasing the use of PGHD, one that provides practical tools for ambulatory care practices … To highlight the availability of this new guide with primary care practices and others, AHRQ will sponsor … mind, AHRQ will continue to support a research agenda to assess potential solutions and develop best practices

118. Efficient Orthogonal Designs: Testing the Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Components | PCMH Resource Center
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     March 01, 2013 - The orthogonal design method is implemented by randomly assigning each of the practices participating … Including all possible combinations, called a “full factorial design,” would require 2n practices. … Enables practices to test options of interest. … Requires relatively homogenous practices. . … Engaging practices in selecting what to test can help increase their willingness to participate.

119. Efficient Orthogonal Designs: Testing the Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Components (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - Including all possible combinations, called a “full factorial design,” would require 2n practices. … The smaller the number of practices used to estimate a given number of effects, the more “efficient” … Ascertain the number of practices available for the intervention. 2. … Enables practices to test options of interest. … Requires relatively homogenous practices.

120. EvidenceNOW: A Model for Heart Health and Beyond (pdf file)
     pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-story.pdf
     September 01, 2021 - As a result, many primary care practices struggle to adopt evidence-based practices to prevent and … For example:  Practices across the Cooperatives dramatically improved the number of QI strategies …  In almost e very Cooperative, practices with lower baseline QI capacity made larger improvements … than practices that started with higher capacity …  Independent, physician-owned practices are often more adaptable than those in larger systems.