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161. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-themes.html
     March 01, 2017 - In addition, transformation is an ongoing process that practices or health systems choose to engage in … In four grants, some of the practices were recognized as a PCMH while others were not. … about recognition status of involved practices. … Appendix A provides details about the PCMH recognition status of practices across TPC grants. … . 1 The capabilities of existing EHR systems also varied widely across practices.

162. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/themes.html
     October 01, 2015 - In addition, transformation is an ongoing process that practices or health systems choose to engage in … In four grants, some of the practices were recognized as a PCMH while others were not. … about recognition status of involved practices. … Appendix A provides details about the PCMH recognition status of practices across TPC grants. … . 1 The capabilities of existing EHR systems also varied widely across practices.

163. Place Matters: Closing the Gap on Rural Primary Care Quality Improvement Capacity-the Healthy Hearts Northwest Study | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/rural-primary-care-quality-improvement-capacity.html
     July 01, 2021 - article on PubMed Summary To compare rural independent and health system primary care practices … with urban practices to external practice facilitation support in terms of recruitment, readiness, engagement … Investing practice facilitation and sustained QI strategies in rural independent practices, where the … Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the primary care practices who participated in our study

164. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/guide4.html
     October 01, 2017 - How can you help staff learn new practices? … Examined best practices and made preliminary decisions on how current best practices will be updated … Here are the opportunities for best practices or redesigned best practices to be incorporated at this … list of best practices on Tool 4A. … To help staff accept the new set of practices fully, ensure they understand that those practices offer

165. EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/index.html
     October 01, 2024 - 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

166. Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/index.html
     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.

167. 4. Assessment of the Intervention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen4.html
     April 01, 2018 - It had conducted prior studies and interventions but none with so many practices. … practices to disseminate new information. … Other practices are not owned by LVHN. … mailout into two waves, placing the slower practices in Wave 2. … : to take the place of having such an infrastructure at the practices.

168. Model State Enhancement Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-impact/model-state.html
     February 01, 2017 - and a chance for practices to share their experiences with QI. … QI efforts or to deepen the capacity of practices for ongoing improvement efforts. … practice facilitators approached practices individually to invite them to participate. … Oklahoma engaged practices via the newly certified CHIOs. … HEROs link practices to needed resources by visiting practices, administering needs assessments, and

169. Model State Enhancement Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/final-impact/model.html
     October 01, 2015 - and a chance for practices to share their experiences with QI. … QI efforts or to deepen the capacity of practices for ongoing improvement efforts. … practice facilitators approached practices individually to invite them to participate. … Oklahoma engaged practices via the newly certified CHIOs. … HEROs link practices to needed resources by visiting practices, administering needs assessments, and

170. EvidenceNOW: Midwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.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

171. EvidenceNOW: Research Design and Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/index.html
     March 01, 2021 - Heart Health in Primary Care grant initiative awarded grants to seven regional cooperatives to 1) help practices … 2) study if and how external quality improvement support helps small- and medium-sized primary care practices … EvidenceNOW also aimed to 3) determine what works best in developing practices’ capacity for continuous … , determine the PCOR findings to be disseminated to practices, propose an evidence-based approach to … QI support to practices, and design a rigorous evaluation to measure the effect of their external support

172. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 27: Helping Practices Optimize EHRs for Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation and Quality Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-27-ehr-and-pcmh.pdf
     January 15, 2025 - Some of the actions you can take to support practices include: • help practices assess current use … Helping Practices Optimize EHR Use While many practices have implemented EHRs, few are using them to … Help practices take action on reports. … A Note About Small Practices and EHRs When you are working with small practices and EHRs, be aware … Ways to Help Practices Use Their EHRs to Support PCMH and Quality Providing EHR Support to Practices

173. Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/addresources.html
     April 01, 2018 - Case Studies Four case studies of exemplar practices from across the country were developed: … Resources for Advanced Practices The environmental scan revealed many strategies that could improve … As part of this Guide, we reference these strategies as those that advanced practices, which are practices … Download the Advanced Practices Resources Guide [PDF, 865.8 KB]. … The questions were developed based on the experiences of the practices that field tested the original

174. Helping Primary Care Teams Rediscover the Joy of Medicine | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/in-action/virginia.html
     March 01, 2021 - Mike Talley seems an unlikely candidate to coach primary care practices on ways to improve care. … In some cases, helping practices reduce burnout can involve analyzing staff's core duties to determine … Other practices require more extensive solutions to help clinicians keep up with the volume and pace … Strategies Mike shares with practices through EvidenceNOW help primary care staff rediscover what they … He recognizes that some practices are interested in quality improvement but may not feel like they have

175. Index of Clinical Topics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/clinical-topics.html
     October 01, 2024 - Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: VAP & NV-HAP Antibiotic Stewardship Blood Culture Practices … Each topic contains presentations on evidence and best practices, along with relevant resources. … This section discusses the best practices for CLABSI prevention and strategies for implementation. … This section discusses the best practices for VAP & NV-HAP Prevention and strategies for implementation … Blood Culture Practices & Stewardship Blood Culture Stewardship aims to optimize bacteremia detection

176. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 10. Harms Due to Opioids (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/opioids-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 10. Harms Due to Opioids Harms Due to Opioids 10-1 10. … Given the importance of harms due to opioids, we identified potential patient safety practices (PSPs … The candidate safety practices were discussed with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ … Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis of Existing and Emerging Patient Safety Practices … Increased access to SUD, but outpatient practices believed had inadequate access.

177. Research Initiatives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/index.html
     January 01, 2024 - has made major investments in research initiatives to better understand the challenges primary care practices … produce evidence about what works best in creating and sustaining infrastructure to help primary care practices … developed through these research initiatives aim for primary care transformation that enables primary care practices … Disseminating Evidence into Practice Latest evidence and tools that support practices in implementing … evidence-based practices to improve patient care.

178. Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Introduction (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/best-practices-survey-administration-webcast-intro.pdf
     January 24, 2024 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Introduction Best Practices for Administering … recording and slides will also be available soon at https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices … - 012424.html 2 https://events.westat.com/sops https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices … -012424.html https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/best-practices-012424.html Today’s Speakers … Action Planning for Improvement ► SOPS Resources • Submitting to the SOPS Databases • Q&A 4 Best Practices

179. Key Study Outcomes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-study-outcomes.html
     March 01, 2017 - Ninety percent of the practices studied indicated that their patients usually or always saw the same … by name. 27 Another study, led by Magill, included 10 primary care practices in Utah and determined … One study of small practices in New York City led by Berry found that providers in a majority of the … practices increased the comprehensiveness of care by usually or always discussing diet, exercise, and … stress and anxiety with patients. 27 In a study led by Scholle, providers from small practices in 23

180. Key Study Outcomes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/outcomes.html
     October 01, 2015 - Ninety percent of the practices studied indicated that their patients usually or always saw the same … by name. 27 Another study, led by Magill, included 10 primary care practices in Utah and determined … One study of small practices in New York City led by Berry found that providers in a majority of the … practices increased the comprehensiveness of care by usually or always discussing diet, exercise, and … stress and anxiety with patients. 27 In a study led by Scholle, providers from small practices in 23