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61. National Evaluation Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/national.html
    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

62. Opioid Use in Older Adults Compendium of Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - The participating practices were a mix of academic medical centers focusing on geriatrics, mid-sized … Based on the experience of participating practices, we refined and finalized the Compendium. … Innovative resources and tools developed by the practices that participated in the learning collaboratives … Practices can select any HLC that reflects their priority and any, or all, strategies and activities … We strongly encourage practices and systems to engage patients in the quality improvement process using

63. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules Practice facilitators help primary care practices … Helping Practices Scale Improvements . Joy in Work .   … listen actively; ask powerful questions; become a “professional pesterer;” and curate resources for practices … Helping Practices Scale up Improvements – Learn how to support change throughout a practice by designing … Access additional resources and a table of contents for Helping Practices Scale up Improvements.

64. 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 … 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 … comprehensive, evidence-based approach for a heart health improvement project involving 50 or more practices

65. Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention (doc file)
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    June 12, 2018 - Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury … Your current prevention program may include these best practices. … We talked about your current practices in the last module. … This slide shows best practices for preventing medical device-related pressure injuries. … tool, and reviewed optimal care planning practices for pressure injury prevention.

66. Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - 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). … Whether practices expand their capacity for quality improvement and implementation of new evidence into … How external support is organized to help practices change and improve.

67. 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

68. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2019 - and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities Educational bundles provide evidence-based prevention practices … The module highlights basic hand hygiene principles and best practices to reinforce with frontline staff … bacterial and viral infections, and how to educate and engage staff in proper cleaning and disinfection practices … personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies to engage facility staff in using evidence-based practices … activity, including a role play, is included to practice communication skills surrounding urine culturing practices

69. EvidenceNOW: A Model for Heart Health and Beyond (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2021 - As a result, many primary care practices struggle to adopt evidence-based practices to prevent and … For example:  Practices across the Cooperatives dramatically improved the number of QI strategies …  In almost e very Cooperative, practices with lower baseline QI capacity made larger improvements … than practices that started with higher capacity …  Independent, physician-owned practices are often more adaptable than those in larger systems.

70. Final Progress Report: APPLIED STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY (ASIPS) (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - CaReNet consists of three distinct types of practices. … Most of these practices are located in frontier areas. … Residency practices averaged more issues per call (p < .001). … Labels were either absent or incomplete in all 18 practices. … It is best suited to large practices, groups of practices (e.g., PBRNs), or university- or hospital-affiliated

71. Achievements in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Tools for Change Achievements in Primary Care Ten EvidenceNOW Practices … Champions The Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge is a competition to identify clinicians, practices … Million Hearts ® Hypertension Control Champions and the ten participating EvidenceNOW primary care practices … Springs, CO) High Plains Community Health Center Holly Clinic (Holy, CO)   Helping primary care practices … Learn more about how EvidenceNOW is working with primary care practices to improve quality of care and

72. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing Best Practices … stewardship program, creating a safety culture around antibiotic prescribing, and ​disseminating best practices … Learning and disseminating best practices for the diagnosis and treatment of common infectious disease … safety around antibiotic prescribing Develop and improve your stewardship program Learn best practices … you review the content in “Develop a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best practices

73. 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.

74. EvidenceNOW: Midwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/midwest.html
    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

75. EvidenceNOW Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - program improvements in delivery of heart health and quality improvement in participating primary care practices … Practice Facilitators  (PDF, 544 KB) AHRQ's EvidenceNOW: A Snaphot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … Target for Improving Heart Health in America (PDF, 575 KB) A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices …  (PDF, 838 KB) Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices  (PDF, 662

76. 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

77. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level.xlsx
    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

78. Comparative Reports on Physicians | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - of comparative information on the quality of care provided by medical groups and clinics, physician practices … Subject: Individual health care professionals, group practices, and Accountable Care Organizations ( … presents information on the quality of care provided by individual health care professionals, group practices … Subject: Primary care practices Developer: Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Developer Type … The clinical quality measures focus on whether the practices are providing appropriate preventive and

79. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - 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 … EvidenceNOW was getting underway several federal and state-funded initiatives aimed at 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

80. Post-Vaccination Practices Series | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    talkingquality.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/learning-modules/post-vaccination.html
    December 01, 2022 - Home Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network Learning Modules Post-Vaccination Practices … Staff Nursing Home Residents’ Emotional Health Leading by Example Post-Vaccination Practices … Resources Catalog News Best Practice Summaries Post-Vaccination Practices … December 2022 Page originally created May 2022 Internet Citation: Post-Vaccination Practices