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161. Key Driver 6: Nurture Leadership and Create A Culture of Continuous Learning and Evidence-Based Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - While leadership looks different in small practices, even solo practitioners need to nurture themselves … Encourage learning about new evidence and best practices Leaders who are committed to ensuring that … Review measures of implementation and impact of evidence-based practices regularly To create a culture

162. For AHRQ in 2020, an Unforgettable Year of Daunting Challenges and Vital Accomplishments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2021 - The network is addressing critical areas that include best practices in the use of personal protective … Tools like these empower primary care professionals and practices to serve their communities. … In addition, AHRQ’s comprehensive Making Healthcare Safer III volume catalogs 47 practices that include … medication management, diagnostic errors, healthcare-associated infections, and safe nursing practices … that target patient safety improvement in hospitals, primary care practices, and long-term care facilities

163. The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - Diagram The EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram shows six key drivers—big changes—that primary care practices … Tools & Resources Aim: Improve health care quality by increasing the capacity of primary care practices

164. Module 1: Preventing Falls in Hospitals—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

165. Physician and Physician Practice Research Database (3P-RD) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - and Physician Practice Research Database (3P-RD) captures characteristics of physicians and physician practices … policy-relevant health services research. 3P-RD contains linkable files for physicians and physician practices … focused on the current roles of actively practicing physicians and corresponding relationships within practices … Physician Practice files provide characteristics of physician practices in each participating state.

166. Cholesterol Management 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 347) The EvidenceNOW goal for primary care practices in the study is to have at least … Resources for Practices EvidenceNOW PCOR Cholesterol Management Fact Sheet This EvidenceNOW fact sheet … This two-page checklist and associated materials provide information on working with primary care practices … Resources for Practices To Use With Patients How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: How to Control

167. Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

168. Burnout in Primary Care: Assessing and Addressing it in Your Practice (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2023 - can use for assessing burnout • Strategies practices can tailor to prevent and reduce staff burnout … • Most widely used measure of burnout in healthcare practices. … or health systems, but many can be scaled for smaller and independent practices. … Physicians in small practices may be able to share coverage. … Organizational Evidence-Based and Promising Practices for Improving Clinician Well-Being.

169. Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) can help your unit implement evidence-based practices … teams learn a method that can help them make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices

170. The Division of Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - DPI projects focus on how to: increase adoption of effective healthcare practices, integrate behavioral … EvidenceNow Learn about projects that use the EvidenceNOW Model of external support for primary care practices … and find tools to help practices implement the best evidence and increase their quality improvement

171. Maine Groups Improve Care for Patients with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - recruited the Maine Primary Care Association (MePCA) PSO and ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices … set out to identify what factors influenced patients with IDD to seek care outside of primary care practices … His goal was to learn what types of events were impacting patients with IDD and how primary care practices … Disabilities Council; Maine Primary Care Association PSO; ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices

172. Implementing Screening and Treatment of Unhealthy Alcohol Use During COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2021 - unhealthy alcohol use and treatment for those with alcohol use disorder remains low in primary care practices … behavioral counseling for those identified at high risk, and medication prescribing in primary care practices … evidence-based strategies, including practice facilitation , to support implementation in approximately 700 practices … The largest challenge is the difficulty in recruiting primary care practices when many are struggling

173. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - resources for practice facilitators and quality improvement professionals working with primary care practices … Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit Steps practices can take to help patients comprehend … Method that helps clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices

174. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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     March 01, 2013 - In: Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices … programs     Quality improvement experts     Physical/occupational therapy consultation on work practices

175. Webinar #1: Fuzzy Set Analysis (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2013 - but not all primary care practices are PCMHs" → "PCMHs are a subset of primary care practices" Developed … IMPLICATIONS: work on communication in WS practices, practice systems in non WS clinics. … Scored practices on each feature, then inserted notes and later quotations. … 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.

176. Strategy 6A: Open Access Scheduling for Routine and Urgent Appointments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

177. Practice-based Research Networks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - These are defined as "a group of ambulatory practices devoted principally to the primary care of patients … capacity of these networks by educating the networks in primary care research and data collection best practices

178. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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     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

179. Nursing Home Workplace Safety Resource List (pdf file)
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     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.

180. Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Register for Jan. 24 Webinar on Best Practices for Administering Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® . … AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use is recruiting primary and urgent care practices … that use telemedicine for a no-cost, 18-month national program to strengthen antibiotic prescribing practices … Register for Jan. 24 Webinar on Best Practices for Administering Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® … ET on best practices for administering AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®).