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81. EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - However, many primary care practices continue to struggle to find and incorporate the best evidence from … developed systems and infrastructure to provide quality improvement (QI) support to help primary care practices … The availability and types of QI support differ significantly across States, which leaves many practices … Having QI support systems in place may be particularly beneficial for practices in States with higher … Build a network of primary care practices and related stakeholders across the State that can use the

82. 3. What Are the Best Practices in Pressure Ulcer Prevention that We Want to Use? (continued) | 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. … Return to Contents   3.7 Checklist for best practices 3. … Best Practices Checklist Identify a bundle of best practices A clinical pathway has been created

83. EvidenceNOW Tools for Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - & Resources EvidenceNOW Tools for Change A Curated Collection for Practices … EvidenceNOW Tools for Change can help primary care practices, as well as practice facilitators and others … who support practices, make changes to build their capacity to engage in quality improvement and implement … EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram AHRQ uses a key driver diagram to show what practices need to do to … The key driver diagram consists of six key drivers—big changes that practices make to keep pace with

84. Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Research and Results: What We've Learned The goal of EvidenceNOW is to assist primary care practices … The second goal of EvidenceNOW is to improve primary care practices' capacity for implementing evidence … Access snapshot of EvidenceNOW practices  (PDF, 838 KB). … Access practice capacity for EvidenceNOW practices (PDF, 782 KB). … How external support is organized to help practices change and improve.

85. National Evaluation Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to help … What were practices' experiences with the support they received? … What changes did practices make? … Why were practices able to make changes in their quality and capacity, or why not? … Visiting so many practices located across the US presents both a challenge for the national evaluation

86. Building State Capacity Preliminary Findings  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - barriers and facilitators to establishing a cooperative, and the strategies used to recruit participating practices … 1.8 MB) highlights barriers and facilitators to establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices … Key findings revealed by both reports: Having prior relationships with practices is critical to formation … engaging these partners early would have improved the development process Building a "network of practices … is a barrier to engagement and retention, and system affiliation of practices makes this particularly

87. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - (ISCR) Toolkit helps hospitals improve patients' surgical experience by adopting enhanced recovery practices … Enhanced recovery practices are evidence-based processes that are supported by multidisciplinary teams … using enhanced recovery practices. … the scope, then implementing and measuring program impact, and finally sustaining enhanced recovery practices … perioperative team can download and use to standardize surgical techniques using enhanced recovery practices

88. IMPaCT (Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2012 - This funding also is intended to further the expansion of existing programs, allowing primary care practices … current initiative by integrating lessons learned in teaching the Medical Home model, facilitating practices … will be tested in partnership with the PA Area Health Education Center (AHEC) network of preceptor practices … Information Technology Regional Extension Center to small and medium-sized independent primary care practices … Adopt quality improvement models and strategies by primary care practices.

89. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules: Additional Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Practices can have their own personalities. … care practices’ capacity to make changes needed to implement heart health evidence. … Tables, Graphs, Dashboards, & Reports: Data Visualization Best Practices  (PDF, 711 KB) offers best practices … Practices Excel spreadsheet to create run charts to track their progress in QI. … skills taught in the module Helping Practices Scale Improvements.

90. EvidenceNOW Stories | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW initiative has helped more than 1,500 small-and medium-sized primary care practices … One in three of these practices operates in medically underserved areas, 75 percent have five or fewer … Profiles of Primary Care Explore these stories of EvidenceNOW primary care practices : A solo urban … Get to know these and other primary care practices participating in EvidenceNOW—who they are, the challenges … positive impact EvidenceNOW has had in communities across the United States , including: Helping practices

91. Building Investigative Practices for Better Health Outcomes Research Network | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2012 - Funding Opportunities About the National Center Building Investigative Practices … January 1, 2005 Network Mission Statement: To transform a network of undifferentiated private practices … in to a community of reflective, investigative practices and their patients; thereby, enhancing the … assessment Approximate Number of PBRN Member Licensed Clinicians: 79 Approximate Number of Practices

92. Building Quality Improvement Capacity in Primary Care, No. 2 (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2013 - By allowing practices, and teams of clinicians within practices, to gauge their performance relative … Allow practices and teams to track changes in performance over time. … Works one on one with practices to provide a customized approach. … many practices at once. … is unlikely to happen in these practices without outside support.

93. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - key administrative aspects that were particularly challenging included recruiting and then retaining practices … some tips derived from the experiences of the EvidenceNOW Cooperatives on recruiting and retaining practices … AHRQ EvidenceNOW initiative set a goal of recruiting over 1500 small and medium sized primary care practices … The EvidenceNOW Tipsheet on Recruitment and Retention describes mechanics of identifying practices … , provides examples of value proposition statements, and ideas on how to keep practices engaged throughout

94. Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - program used practice facilitation to improve delivery of heart health services among primary care practices … EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity : This program uses practice facilitation to help practices develop … EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use : This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices … Managing Urinary Incontinence in Women : This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices … Highlighted Resources EvidenceNOW Tools for Change : Tools to help primary care practices and practice

95. AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Edition The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 3rd edition, can help primary care practices … This Toolkit contains 23 tools designed for busy practices. … The Toolkit can help practices with little or no experience addressing health literacy, as well as those … Toolkit Testing Earlier editions of this Toolkit were tested in primary care practices and community … Just like these practices, your practice can benefit from this resource.

96. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - with what we’re learning about putting evidence into practice, the experiences of small primary care practices … Care Landscape: Findings What does the state of primary care look like for small- and medium-size practices … Practice Facilitation: Findings Practice facilitation is a service provided to support primary care practices … by a trained individual or team who use a range of approaches and methods to build the practices’ capacity … Improving the ABCS of Heart Health: Findings EvidenceNOW was designed to assist primary care practices

97. Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care, No. 1 (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2013 - Ambulatory care practices, and primary care practices in particular, typically do not have this capacity … For large multispecialty practices and practices affiliated with larger systems, some of the multifaceted … Best practices and shared learning about QI based on the experiences of many practices. … primary care practices in particular—lack a well-developed QI infrastructure.2 Practices lack the size … This infrastructure could provide practices—especially smaller, independent, and underresourced practices—with

98. Research Communities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - These resources range from networks of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer … how to integrate behavioral health and primary care, to practice facilitation support to primary care practices … Research Networks Practice-based Research Networks (PBRNs) are groups of primary care clinicians and practices … Practice Facilitation Practice facilitation is an approach to supporting improvement in primary care practices … Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make

99. EvidenceNOW: Midwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices … that provide a variety of quality improvement services typically not available to small primary care practices … The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to help … Reach Number of Participating Practices: 216 Practice characteristics Location 89.9 percent … Practices were assigned either to point-of-care strategies alone or point of care plus population management

100. Case Studies of Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs—Program Snapshot: Oklahoma's Practice Enhancement Assistants (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - 1 facilitator to 8 practices Eligible Practices Any primary care practice in the network (more than … More experienced PEAs may be able to work with more practices, and more experienced practices may require … Intensity and Form of PEAs’ Work with Practices PEA’s Caseload and Schedule Practices in the Network … OKPRN staff find that bringing groups of practices together not only creates a space where practices … can share best practices but also creates a “sense of competition and urgency” that motivates practices