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121. EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2023 - support, the grantees will use practice facilitation to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices … for screening and treatment of unhealthy alcohol use in primary care practices across the United States … Program Goals Designed to help primary care practices use patient-centered outcomes research to address … The project is being implemented in small- and medium-sized primary care practices representing rural … , suburban, and urban practices that serve diverse communities of patients.    

122. EvidenceNOW | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     EvidenceNOW Model A model for providing external support to primary care practices … Practice Facilitation A key component of external support to primary care practices … care Tools for Change Tools to help primary care practices … EvidenceNOW Model The EvidenceNOW Model of external support to primary care practices … uses practice facilitation, expert consultation, and other services to help primary care practices implement

123. taylor.indd (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Facilita- tors, also known as quality improvement coaches, assist practices with coordinat- ing their … These complemen- tary roles aim to help primary care practices deliver coordinated, accessible, com- … They also often help practices become patient-centered medical homes. … Because facilitators work with multiple practices, they can provide “cross- pollination” of best practices … Although uncommon, practices may pay directly for facilitation services.

124. Recommendations from the Subcommittee to Inform the National Action Alliance to Advance Patient and Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Policies aimed at improving patient safety must be based on evidence-based practices and acknowledge … Engineering Safe Practices Aim:  Through partnership with technology vendors, FDA, ONC, and other relevant … and hard to follow less safe practices. … A new, scalable bundle of safe practices across the care continuum and phasing out of numerous current … for implementation of safety practices and strategies to overcome barriers to adoption.

125. Module 8: Approaches to Quality Improvement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Best practices research. Fam Med 2003 Feb;35(2):131-4. … How might you use best practices research with your practices to improve their processes? … Your goal will be to instill these as habits in your practices. … Best Practices Research Best practices research is a powerful but less well-known QI approach that … Best practices research is an approach that can help you identify exemplar practices appropriate to

126. 4. How do you implement the fall prevention program in your organization? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - How do you pilot test the new practices? … Implementing Best Practices: Locally Relevant Considerations Implementing best practices requires attention … 3 you reviewed best practices. … To help staff accept the new set of practices fully, ensure that they understand that those practices … Checklist for implementing best practices The checklist for implementing best practices can be found

127. The Medical Home: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know? A Review of the Earliest Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model. Table 2 | PCMH Resource Center
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     March 01, 2013 - Service and Managed Insurance Coverage Practice Setting Limited to Larger Delivery Systems Number of Practices … Use Electronic Health Records a Note: "Practices" also includes clinics and health centers. … Aetna’s Embedded Case Managers Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage   Yes     Practices … physician   Yes Yes   Moderate-sized primary care clinics (4 family medicine and 3 internal medicine practices … in the Boston area (4 private practices; 2 community health centers)   6   Veterans Affairs Team-Managed

128. Module 18: Assessing Practice Readiness for Change (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators. … Two categories of practices might receive little benefit from practice facilitation: those operating … undertaking improvement work and as a source of “best practices” to spread. … The two remaining levels, functioning practices and low-functioning practices, are most likely to benefit … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators.

129. Module 4: An Introduction to Practice Organization (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Special staffing issues in small practices. … Private or independent practices (IPs) are practices owned and operated by one or more physicians and … IPs vary in size from very small solo clinician practices to larger group and multispecialty practices … Nonprofit practices vary in size from the small solo practices to larger organizations with ten or … External Resources for Primary Care Practices Practices may also participate in and receive support

130. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs: Lessons Learned From Leading Models of Practice Facilitation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - LEADING MODELS OF PRACTICE FACALITATION Practice facilitation (PF) is one way to support medical practices … The concept of the learning community is applicable to both practices and facilitators. … EMRs are an integral part of high-functioning primary care practices, yet EMR implementation efforts … PF programs and their staff, like practices, should be assessed and reassessed for their capacity and … effectiveness in supporting practices in the transformation process.

131. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
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     February 02, 2023 - active physicians' current roles in the healthcare system and the corresponding relationships within practices … sources for 13 states and includes data elements related to characteristics of physicians and physician practices … Percent practices with single specialty APCD/CMS Claims 3P-RD Physician SING_SPEC_FLAG X X X X X X X … X X X X X X X X PCT_SING_SPEC Percent of practices in the zip code with a single specialty Num 8 Percent … X X X X X X X X X X X X X PCP_SPEC_1 Primary care specialty (PCP) most common among the ZIP code's practices

132. Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2018 - Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) Mission PBRNs are groups of primary care clinicians and practices … Settings of Care Primary care clinician and community-based practices. … capacity of these networks by educating the networks in primary care research and data collection best practices

133. 5. How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? … What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use? 4. … 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.

134. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - techniques to improve safety culture, teamwork, and communications, together with a checklist of proven practices … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery New This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices … Improve Antibiotic Use Three toolkits that help hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices … Using CUSP and other evidence-based practices, the toolkit helps ICUs assess their current CLABSI and … High-Performance Work Practices in CLABSI Prevention Interventions: Final Report, Executive Summary

135. Patient-Centered Medical Home Decisionmaker Brief: Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home | PCMH Resource Center
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     September 01, 2011 - Include comparison practices. … Include as many intervention practices as possible. … Rationale: Gathering data from comparison practices (practices that do not receive the intervention) … , because of systematic differences between the practices. … Include as many PCMH practices as possible.

136. Curriculum Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2021 - Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement Advancing Pharmacy Health … Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty is a set of modules to … CLABSI Tools These tools will help your unit implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central … It builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science

137. Methods and Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - In addition, the evaluations collected sizeable information on practices’ characteristics, infrastructure … Each regional cooperative employed different approaches to extract EHR data from practices. … Regional EvidenceNOW cooperatives also supported practices  to improve how providers input data into … Cooperatives offered five core services to support practices in their efforts to use clinical quality … How did EvidenceNOW cooperatives engage practices to share data for research purposes?

138. Module 25: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - How can a practice facilitator help practices determine which recognition program is most suitable? … Several major programs offer PCMH recognition or accreditation for medical practices. … Practices use evidence-based medicine and decision support tools to guide shared decisionmaking and … Practices use data-driven QI methodologies to continuously monitor performance in a variety of care … Other models  Administrative support to help practices transform.

139. Using Pragmatic Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models in Real-World Settings | PCMH Resource Center
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     March 01, 2013 - Similarly, rural practices may manage more of their patients’ care needs internally due to shortages … PCTs recruit practices from the community that do not traditionally participate in research. … In the PCMH context , a PCT approach would include smaller, independent practices—the practices that … However, we also need to know what happens in smaller, independent practices. … Using a large sample of practices allows evaluators to analyze how different practices adapt the PCMH

140. Using Pragmatic Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models in Real-World Settings (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - Traditional RCTs have limited external validity, or generalizability, if the patients and practices … PCTs recruit practices from the community that do not traditionally participate in research. … In the PCMH context, a PCT approach would include smaller, independent practices—the practices that … However, we also need to know what happens in smaller, independent practices. … Using a large sample of practices allows evaluators to analyze how different practices adapt the PCMH