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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/interview-protocol-qi-ny.html
March 01, 2021 - This interview protocol was used by an EvidenceNOW Cooperative's staff to interview participating practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160315/rick-evans-slides.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Initiatives for Improvement
Cabinets – facility, divisional
Action plans with targets
– Use best practices … and team results
Leader bandwidth Link to other priorities
Provider cynicism and burnout Make best practices … learned and take-home points
Know your survey and your data
Pick the right evidence based best
practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module1/module1_fall-prevention.docx
March 01, 2013 - Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? (covered in Training Module 3)
4. … How do you implement best practices in your organization? (covered in Training Module 4)
5. … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices? (covered in Training Module 5)
6. … Track the newly redesigned practices and check to see if they are being done the right way. … Use critical thinking to include best practices in patients’ daily goals.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-1/guide.html
September 01, 2017 - (covered in Training Module 2)
Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? … (covered in Training Module 3)
How do you implement best practices in your organization? … (covered in Training Module 4)
How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices? … Track the newly redesigned practices and check to see if they are being done the right way. … Use critical thinking to include best practices in patients’ daily goals.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/index.html
March 01, 2017 - Includes: 25 indicator-specific best practices, a project charter, a gap analysis, and an implementation … Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvements
Includes introduction to the indicator-specific … best practices and detailed information on best practices for selected indicators
Introduction PDF … Gap Analysis
Includes a tool to help you understand how your organization's practices align with best … practices to identify potential areas for improvement
PDF [210.19 KB] Word [45.73 KB]
D.6.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/morse-fall-scale.html
July 01, 2023 - Which fall prevention practices do you want to use?
4. … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices?
6. … Tools and Resources
Appendix: Bibliography of Studies Implementing Fall Prevention Practices
References
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/strategy6a-openaccess.html
March 01, 2020 - Finally, medical practices often realize cost and efficiency savings. … Implementation of This Model
The literature on open access suggests that medical practices can implement … To facilitate this difficult task, practices may want to set a target date and agree that visits will … Some practices rely on mathematical models for predicting demand, with mixed success. … To do this, the group may need to see more patients each day for 6 to 8 weeks. 7 A study of practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/registry/community-physicians-network.html
January 01, 2012 - Encourage small and medium size practices in adoption of Electronic Medical Record ( EMR); e. … including HIV/AIDS, STDs*
Obesity*
Tobacco use and smoking cessation
Approximate Number of Practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/coordinating-care-for-adults-with-complex-care-needs-white-paper.pdf
January 01, 2012 - Smaller practices, however, face particular
challenges in coordinating care for these patients. … States work in practices of five or fewer
physicians (Hing, 2006). … than smaller practices to hire dedicated nurses or social workers as case
managers. … Small practices with one or two physicians might
have to share case-management staff across several practices … Implementing open access scheduling of visits in primary care practices.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/heart-health/cholesterol/facilitator-checklist.html
September 01, 2018 - This two-page checklist and associated materials provide information on working with primary care practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/es/programs/index.html
January 01, 2016 - Health System Performance Initiative to study how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices … factors that affect health systems’ use of patient-centered outcomes research and to identify best practices … It builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/programs/index.html
January 01, 2016 - Health System Performance Initiative to study how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices … factors that affect health systems’ use of patient-centered outcomes research and to identify best practices … It builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices and the science
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/index.html
December 01, 2020 - Initiative
Findings from a set of 10 grants on improving delivery systems and on spreading evidence-based practices … September 2013 AHRQ awarded 10 grants on delivery system research and the spread of evidence-based practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/866.html
May 01, 2023 - Research Funding Opportunities From AHRQ
AHRQ Webinars Coming in June
AHRQ Seeking Primary Care Practices … AHRQ Seeking Primary Care Practices for Program To Improve Cancer Diagnosis
Registration remains open … for primary care practices to join a free 12-month patient safety program to support the implementation … receive technical assistance, coaching and tools to help implement sustainable improvements in their practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-5-whys.pdf
May 17, 2021 - 1
Job Aid: 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagrams
Overview
The 5 Whys and fishbone diagrams help practices … Practices
then use this information to generate and prioritize ideas for improvement. … Practices can
create their own or use already existing category sets like this healthcare one: people
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/tools-implementing-pcmh
January 22, 2021 - practice facilitators in the knowledge and skills needed to support meaningful improvement in primary care practices … resources for organizations that are interested in providing practice facilitation services to primary care practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/learning-modules/index.html
March 01, 2023 - Staff
Nursing Home Residents’ Emotional Health
Leading by Example
Post-Vaccination Practices … Post-Vaccination Practices series
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/health-it/index.html
September 01, 2022 - Increasing Access to MAT of Opioid Use in Rural Primary Care Practices : AHRQ initiative to increase … medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse in rural primary care practices.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/building-capacity/EvidenceNOW-BSC-OH-profile.pdf
September 01, 2021 - improve heart health and help reduce cardiovascular
disease disparities by engaging with primary care practices … equity in primary care by working with health care organizations, public health, and
primary care practices … Collaboratives and seven medical
schools more efectively with the state’s network of primary care practices … The initiative will
establish the following QI services to support primary care
practices in priority
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/clabsi-tools/clabsi-tools-revised.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Purpose of the tools
These tools are designed to support your efforts to implement evidence-based practices … Third, raise awareness among unit staff members of evidence-based practices to eliminate
CLABSI. … Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections Fact Sheet at Appendix 2 that
outlines evidence-based practices … Make a point of recognizing providers who appropriately follow evidence-based practices. … A potential barrier to
compliance with evidence-based practices is that clinicians have to go to several