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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/disseminating-evidence/index.html
April 01, 2025 - Disseminating Evidence into Practice
AHRQ disseminates the most up-to-date evidence and tools into practices … so that they can implement evidence-based practices to improve the care of their patients. … EvidenceNow Projects : AHRQ's EvidenceNOW projects use practice facilitation to help primary care practices … Resources EvidenceNOW Tools for Change : This curated repository of tools and resources helps primary care practices
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/dowdstudysnapshot.html
November 01, 2015 - Quality Reporting Program
AHRQ Delivery System Research: Study Snapshot
Between 2008 and 2014, practices … for reporting quality performance, along with reports comparing their performance to that of other practices … that looked at the decision to participate in PQRS and the implementation process in participating practices … They also received reports from CMS comparing their performance to that of other reporting practices. … and in rural practices; beneficiaries treated by nonphysicians; and beneficiaries with diabetes, heart
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreentab5-1.html
April 01, 2018 - Recruit primary care practices to participate in intervention
1.a-1. … CRC screening preintervention survey for participating practices a
2.a-2. … CRC screening preintervention focus group guide for participating practices a
2.a-3. … Screening tracking sheet for participating practices
2.c. … Provide feedback to practices and clinicians about screening results
6.a-1.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
November 01, 2018 - Practices may have focused their data efforts on producing information related to payment incentives … Involving care teams in the process can help practices increase the reliability of their data and generate … Practices gain efficiency by having a point person for data, a Data Coordinator, who has learned the … Small practices may have one person doing the Data Coordinator job on a very part time basis. … Larger practices may have more than one person serve as Data Coordinators.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crctoolkit/crctkittable1.html
April 01, 2018 - Recruit primary care practices to participate in intervention
1.a-1. … CRC screening preintervention survey for participating practices a
2.a-2. … CRC screening preintervention focus group guide for participating practices a
2.a-3. … Screening tracking sheet for participating practices
2.c. … Provide feedback to practices and clinicians about screening results
6.a-1.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/execsumm.html
October 01, 2015 - Primary care transformation is a process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … Motivation and readiness to transform vary across practices. … For these practices, embracing the changes necessary to become a PCMH was a relatively easy process. … For other practices, however, these changes required a dramatic shift in existing mental models about … ; therefore, most practices need supplemental funding to help support transformation efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/executive-summary.html
March 01, 2017 - Primary care transformation is a process that practices or health systems choose to engage in, rather … Motivation and readiness to transform vary across practices. … For these practices, embracing the changes necessary to become a PCMH was a relatively easy process. … For other practices, however, these changes required a dramatic shift in existing mental models about … ; therefore, most practices need supplemental funding to help support transformation efforts.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/root-cause-analysis.html
February 01, 2025 - Cause Analysis to Improve Quality and Performance
Resource: Using Root Cause Analysis to Help Practices … pages) Part of an AHRQ curriculum used to train practice facilitators, this resource describes how practices … Practices can use these tools to make changes to integrate evidence into patient care, part of Key Driver … Although the resource is directed to practice facilitators, it can be used by practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/practice-facilitation/lessons/index.html
November 01, 2022 - Lesson: Practices working with more effective practice facilitators had 3.6% higher mean delivery of … implementation of evidence-based guidelines to reduce cardiovascular risk among patients in small, rural practices … dissemination and implementation of a cardiovascular risk reduction strategy in small primary care practices … Some practices valued the benefit of teaching and others the hands-on support. … Clinician perspectives on the benefits of practice facilitation for small primary care practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/results/index.html
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
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/overview-fac-notes.html
June 01, 2017 - Module 1: Overview - Facilitator Notes
Slide 1: Management Practices for Sustainability Module … Many participating ASCs have demonstrated improvements in safety practices. … These practices and others will be the focus of the modules in this series. … of standard safety practices. … The IHI team found an enthusiastic response to these practices.
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/methods/index.html
March 01, 2021 - In addition, the evaluations collected sizeable information on practices’ characteristics, infrastructure … Each regional cooperative employed different approaches to extract EHR data from practices. … Regional EvidenceNOW cooperatives also supported practices to improve how providers input data into … Cooperatives offered five core services to support practices in their efforts to use clinical quality … How did EvidenceNOW cooperatives engage practices to share data for research purposes?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/2-bestpractices-web-sopssurveys-ginsberg.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Best Practices for Web-based SOPS Surveys - Ginsberg Slides
Why Survey Methods Research is
Important … Health and Human Services that supports
evidence-based practices, and develops tools to
measure progress … • Evidence-based practices are only as good as the data
on which they are based, so important to … 10
This Webcast Can Help You:
• Understand best practices in survey data
collection related to SOPS … • Help plan for submitting data to AHRQ SOPS
voluntary databases
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Best Practices for Web-based
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/1-bestpractices-web-sopssurveys-intro.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Best Practices for Web-based SOPS Surveys - Intro Slides
Best Practices for Web-based
SOPS Surveys … Westat
4
Agenda
• Overview of AHRQ’s perspective on the
importance of survey methods
• Best practices … designing and administering
web-based SOPS surveys
• Provide examples and useful tips
• Q&A
5
Best Practices
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/module5_pressureinjury-msmt_slides.pptx
June 02, 2025 - How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
How To Measure
Pressure Injury Rates … Measuring pressure injury prevention practices. … Measuring pressure injury prevention practices may tell you how to improve care. … Are key practices to reduce pressure injuries being used consistently? … 35
Which Prevention Practices
Should Be Measured?
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen2.html
April 01, 2018 - Examples of such a relationship or affiliation with practices include:
Practices owned or operated … to recruit primary care practices to participate. … We classified practices based on five attributes:
Size (smaller practices with one to three clinicians … and unaffiliated independent practices). … We decided not to recruit replacement practices, as the randomization of the practices had already occurred
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-12-intro-to-assessing-practices.pdf
September 01, 2015 - An Introduction to Assessing Practices: Issues to Consider
Primary Care
Practice Facilitation … Identify some common tools for assessing practices.
4. … Complete the CPCQ for one of your practices (or the TheOnlyOneforMiles case example). … Complete the ACIC for one of your practices (or for TheOnlyOneforMiles case example). … How might you use these tools with practices you are working with?
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories.html
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 … 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
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/virginia.html
March 01, 2021 - Increase practices' capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. … 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.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/index.html
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