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141. 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

142. Investing in Primary Care to Ensure High-Quality Care for All Americans | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW initiatives are engaging primary care practices across the country to help them … The Advancing Heart Health initiative boosted the capacity of primary care practices to improve quality … Heart Health , which is working in States with the highest rates of heart attack and stroke to help practices … Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use , another EvidenceNOW primary care initiative, is working with practices … Another grantee is examining the responses, challenges, and capacity of primary care practices made

143. Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home. (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act enable primary care practices … Funding the provision of technical assistance to primary care practices on PCMH transformation through … Targeted to Primary Care Practices Need Help To Successfully eligible primary care practices, RECs will … ONC’s REC practices’ adoption of the PCMH model. … RECs could be asked to articulate to practices the extent to which their services would prepare practices

144. Burnout in Primary Care: Assessing and Addressing It in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - in Primary Care  (PDF, 1.5 MB, 16 pages) Burnout is a serious and growing problem in primary care practices … Tools practices can use for assessing burnout. … Strategies practices can tailor to prevent and reduce staff burnout and increase well-being.

145. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2019 - 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.

146. Defining the PCMH | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - Although some medical home practices may bring together large and diverse teams of care providers to … meet the needs of their patients, many others, including smaller practices, will build virtual teams … Recognizing that patients and families are core members of the care team, medical home practices ensure … Medical home practices also excel at building clear and open communication among patients and families … Medical Neighborhood: Critical Components and Available Mechanisms (PDF, 715 KB) Engaging Primary Care Practices

147. Data Collection Instruments and Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - from the Change Process Capability Questionnaire (CPCQ) for all cooperatives to collect from their practices … The Northwest cooperative asked practices about the practice’s QI efforts , including: whether they … EvidenceNOW Practice Survey Challenges and Solutions Tried Challenges Solutions Unable to get practices … The practice member survey was relatively short, but posed challenges given the practices were small … They also asked cooperatives to report on recruitment strategy , practices’ motivations and expectations

148. Cooperatives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - organizations, and consumer groups, the cooperatives designed interventions to expand primary care practices … Each cooperative successfully recruited and engaged 200-250 small- and medium-sized primary care practices … and provided quality improvement support services usually not available to the practices because of

149. TeamSTEPPS® Dental Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - TeamSTEPPS's teamwork, leadership, mutual support, communication, and situation monitoring skills in their practices … ® 's teamwork, leadership, mutual support, communication, and situation monitoring skills in their practices

150. Workflow Analysis for Quality Improvement (QI) in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - Analysis for Quality Improvement  (PDF, 1.67 MB, 17 pages) This presentation explains how primary care practices … Practices can use these tools to involve staff in identifying processes that need improvement and for

151. Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Practices with little existing capacity for improvement will require more. …  Document exemplars and best practices and share with program, facilitation community, and practices … Settings range from small, private practices to large multispecialty group practices, from urban to … practices to adopt evidence-based guidelines. … The practices were randomly assigned to self-directed or facilitated change conditions.

152. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2017 - Increase practices’ capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. 3. … can find and share announcements, ideas, insights, and promising practices. … Update Virginia recruited 240 practices, 208 of which are still active. … It currently has collected data on the ABCS measures from 124 practices. … that practices could run their own data reports.

153. Module 17: Introducing a Practice to Facilitation (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Tell two stories that illustrate the activities of facilitators in practices. … How will you use this information with your practices? After the session. … Practices sometimes comment, “I wish I had understood sooner how to use the practice facilitator.” …  Tell stories about the work you’ve done with other practices. … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators.

154. Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology to Support Transformation to Proactive Primary Care - Contract No. 290-04-0016 (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2010 - Of the total, 10 interviewees were from practices with low IT adoption and 17 were from practices with … In analyzing their responses, we divided practices into three categories: (1) paper-based practices, … Within that section, the first row is for practices that are paper-based, the second row for practices … To fully engage in PBPH, practices need to be able to obtain data from outside of their practices. … Community-Based Practices .

155. Assessment and Management of the Resident With a Suspected Urinary Tract Infection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Moments Develop/Improve Stewardship Program Create a Culture of Safety Learn Best Practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/uti-assess.html  

156. Building Rapport with Patients: OARS Communication Skills | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - set of verbal and non-verbal communication skills that helps clinicians and educators in primary care practices … Driver 5: Engage with patients and families in evidence-based care and quality improvement , can help practices

157. Module 3: Best Practices in Fall Prevention—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - Name Here Module 3 Slide 2: Best Practices Best practices are those care processes—based on … ,” “best practices,” “measure,” “sustain,” and “tools.” … The piece labeled “best practices” is highlighted in blue. … Slide 4: Which Practices Should Be Used? … Slide 5: Tailoring Practices The practices selected and used need to be tailored to your hospital

158. All Papers, Briefs, and Other Resources on the PCMH | PCMH Resource Center
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     December 01, 2011 - This decisionmaker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especially smaller … Learn what outcomes to assess, why to include control practices, and why not accounting for clustering … This paper describes why and how to do this and what samples of patients and practices are needed for … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators ( PDF … and by primary care practices themselves to assess their own performance.

159. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
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     July 02, 2008 - How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates … Measuring pressure injury prevention practices. … Measuring pressure injury prevention practices may tell you how to improve care. … Are key practices to reduce pressure injuries being used consistently? … 35 Which Prevention Practices Should Be Measured?

160. Aspirin Use Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - How Did EvidenceNOW Evaluate Whether Practices Followed This PCOR Evidence? … (Measure ID: CMS 164) The EvidenceNOW goal for primary care practices in the study is to have at least … Resources for Practices EvidenceNOW PCOR Aspirin Fact Sheet This EvidenceNOW fact sheet provides an … Practice Facilitator This checklist and associated materials are designed to be used with primary care practices … Resources for Practices To Use With Patients Aspirin, Heart Disease, and Stroke This patient education