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pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/about.html
November 01, 2018 - with the overarching aim of improving health care quality by increasing the capacity of primary care practices … advance the adoption of clinical and organizational evidence in small- and medium-sized primary care practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/index.html
October 01, 2022 - the experiences of frontline clinical teams in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices … your practice, learning strategies for communicating about antibiotic prescribing, and learning best practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pcpf-module-20-creating-qi-teams.pdf
September 01, 2015 - What is a key driver model, and why can it be helpful to you in your work with practices? … See also Module 22, Running Effective Meetings and Creating Capacity for Practices to Run
Effective … Such processes may include gathering and reflecting on data, seeking out best
practices, and engaging … You will want to review the model with the practices you are working with and
get their input into … You can use the key driver model to help your practices think about the overall improvement
effort,
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pcpf-module-6-pf-process.pdf
September 01, 2015 - acilitators support change in practices by focusing a practice’s attention on the process of
change … that bring together peers to share best practices and lessons learned. … It includes several activities:
Inviting practices to participate in improvement work. … Orienting practices to the concept of practice facilitation and what facilitators do. … Helping practices adopt a language
of change is an important part of creating organizations with a
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/small-conf_impact_final_report.docx
January 01, 2011 - Scope: Discussions of general concepts, specific QI elements, additional support needs of primary care practices … Intended Outcome:
A set of best practices/lessons learned summaries for each component to be added to … Intended Outcome:
A set of best practices and lessons learned to be added to the toolkit
Moderators: … Contribute best ideas and practices to the toolkit
Moderator:
Arthur Kaufman
9:00-10:00 AM
How to … Best practices/lessons learned/current thinking
Moderator: Jim Mold
10:00-10:30 AM
Break
10:30
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/tools.html
February 01, 2018 - The Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition can help primary care practices reduce … Brief for Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings explores fundamental questions about patient safety practices … disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections in dialysis patients by following clinical practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202302.html
September 01, 2023 - Effective Health Care Program systematic reviews to inform a number of guidelines advising best treatment practices … practice guidelines, ACOG offers tools and resources to help OB/GYNs implement the guidelines into their practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sdoh/practice-improvement.html
August 01, 2023 - Its toolkit includes the four electronic health record (EHR) tools, technical resources, best practices … Learn about a tool to help primary care practices screen and refer patients for social needs such as
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/putoolkit_module5_tools.docx
August 02, 2017 - Toolkit
Module 5 Tools
Action Plan Tool to Measure Pressure Ulcer Rates and Pressure Ulcer Prevention Practices … Ulcer Prevention Program
Module 5 Tools 1
Action Plan Tool to Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices … analysis is conducted for each fall with at least moderate level of injury
Measure Fall Prevention Practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursing-home-workplace-safety-resources.pdf
January 01, 2023 - CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All
Settings … https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/core-
practices/index.html? … The practices were selected from existing Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations … Civility Best Practices for Nurses
https://www.nursingworld.org/~4afd0d/globalassets/practiceandpolicy … • Best practices for promoting mental health and emotional well-being among nursing
home staff.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pcpf-module-16-academic-detailing.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Academic detailing has its roots in pharmaceutical detailing, which was designed to improve prescribing practices … understand the role of practice facilitators, what
facilitators can and cannot do, and how they can help practices … You will need to identify physicians and others willing to serve as academic detailers for your
practices … try asking:
your program director
other facilitators—find out with whom they work
the practices … Sometimes it takes practices a while to figure out what they want to know.
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/engaging-patients-and-families-medical-home-table-1
June 01, 2010 - How should practices engage patients in these discussions? … Templates/examples for practices to use to create patient guide to the practice (Gruman et al., 2009a … fair and comparable patient survey data without creating too much burden (financial and otherwise) on practices … (MCGHealth: Nettie Engels, personal communication) Learning collaborative that comprised pediatric practices … personal communication) Regional efforts to conduct and report patient experiences of care in medical practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/coordination/webinar01/sl_fuzzyset.ppt
May 14, 2013 - but not all primary care practices are PCMHs” “PCMHs are a subset of primary care practices”
Developed … For example, the fuzzy set of practices with NCQA PCMH certification may look like:
PCMH Certification … Scored practices on each feature, then inserted notes and later quotations
Patient access to program … Nesting of practices within PO’s; Is there variation by practice within a PO? … If all practices within a PO act similarly then use the PO level
Our decision - Separate by program
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/index.html
February 01, 2024 - million and funded three grant initiatives to better understand the challenges faced by primary care practices … Care Practice (TPC) grants that were funded to understand the "natural experiments" that primary care practices … funded 17 State-level initiatives to work together to build a support system to assist primary care practices … Stakeholders included independent primary care practices, health care systems, health care payers, and
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Go to: AHRQ Tools
Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement:
Curricular … Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement: Curricular Modules for Faculty
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/formative-evaluation-fostering-real-time-adaptions-and-refinements-improve-effectiveness
March 01, 2013 - Formative evaluations provide findings such as these to practices and program sponsors on an ongoing … Outcomes for the intervention practices are monitored on an ongoing basis. … For example, audit and feedback of clinical performance data can give providers and practices data on … Intervention impacts can then be estimated by comparing the outcomes of intervention practices with those … Primary care practices often implement multiple intervention components concurrently, and these components
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/implement.html
March 01, 2017 - They support learning and implementation efforts to improve safety culture and practices in long-term … the Modules
Modules
Educational Bundles
Educational bundles provide evidence-based prevention practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/KeyDriver_onepager.pdf
January 01, 2019 - Diagram
The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram shows six key drivers – big changes – that primary care practices … Seek and implement EvidenceImprove health care quality by
increasing the capacity of primary
care practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
December 01, 2015 - Ready for Change Self-
Assessment (Tool A.3)
• Improvement Methods Overview
(Tool D.1)
• Best Practices … Two tools were critical to gaining physician support: Best Practices for Central Venous Catheter
(CVC … The
results of the gap analysis revealed the areas in which the hospital’s practices diverged from … recognized best practices. … colleagues are exploring how this approach could work in
other clinical areas and as a way to improve practices
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pcmh.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement
These Advancing Pharmacy … Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement modules help pharmacy faculty integrate health