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61. 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

62. 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

63. 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.

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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.

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

70. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
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    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

71. 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

72. 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

73. Post-Vaccination Practices Series | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

74. AHRQgraphic_EHRdata_phase1_update (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2018 - AHRQgraphic_EHRdata_phase1_update What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs before EvidenceNOW? … Cooperatives assessed practices’ electronic health record (EHR) and data capabilities, which are shown … Nearly all participating practices used EHRs, and a large number of EHR vendors were represented within … Practices received EHR support from a variety of organizations, and their ability to share data varied … Cooperatives worked with practices to provide health IT support as part of the five quality improvement

75. 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

76. 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.

77. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2019 - In very small practices, the QI Team may encompass the entire staff. … Larger practices may have more than one person serve as Data Coordinators. … No one team size or structure will work for all practices. … In other cases, practices will need to provide additional training. … Some practices obtain feedback by administering brief surveys.

78. 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 … 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 … Other Findings EvidenceNOW evaluators are exploring a wide range of issues that affect primary care practices

79. Origin | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Practices also need to know how to collect and analyze their own data to make sure they’re delivering … those changes while also caring for patients is challenging, especially for small- and medium-sized practices … where 88 percent of office visits take place. 1 Large practices and those affiliated with large health … Small- and medium-sized practices have fewer resources to keep up with these changes, but with support … as well as an opportunity to identify effective methods for increasing the capacity of primary care practices

80. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2017 - Increase practices’ capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. 3. … can find and share announcements, ideas, insights, and promising practices. … Update Virginia recruited 240 practices, 208 of which are still active. … It currently has collected data on the ABCS measures from 124 practices. … that practices could run their own data reports.