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281. Spotlight on North Carolina -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-north-carolina-state-snapshot.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - QI specialists helped practices develop QI teams, identify QI activities, and improve targeted care … Participating practices developed QI teams charged with improving the practices’ quality of care. … The State— • Helped more than 25 practices use their EHRs more effectively. … The EHR coaches surveyed practices and vendors to understand how practices’ existing EHR functionality … Coaches and vendors then helped practices use existing features that met Format requirements.

282. 3. Assessment Plan and Methodology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen3.html
     April 01, 2018 - Assignment was by a mixture of cluster allocation of practices to either the intervention (15 practices … practice business services from LVHN, H for LVPG practices, M for MATLV practices, S for unaffiliated … Three control practices (CHA, CHB, and CUA) and seven intervention practices (IHA, IHE, IHF, IHH, IHI … practices). … within these practices nor compare them with pre-post differences in intervention practices.

283. Gap Analysis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d5_pdi_gapanalysis.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - analysis is to provide project teams with a format in which to do the following: • Compare the best practices … • Determine the “gaps” between your organization’s practices and the identified best practices. … • Select the best practices you will implement in your organization. … The best practice elements defined in the Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (Tool … In Column 2, document your organization’s practices and describe how they differ from each best practice

284. TO (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d5_pdi_gapanalysis.docx
     June 02, 2025 - gap analysis is to provide project teams with a format in which to do the following: Compare the best practices … Determine the “gaps” between your organization’s practices and the identified best practices. … Select the best practices you will implement in your organization. Who are the target audiences? … An assessment of the barriers that need to be addressed before successful implementation of best practices … The best practice elements defined in the Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (Tool

285. Final Progress Report: Dissemination of the PPRNet Model for Improving Medication Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/wessell-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Results: Practices received a median of seven quarterly reports. … Fifteen practices (25%) hosted an onsite visit. … that use a common EHR, are expected to be relevant to most primary care practices. … The MS improvement model strategies resonated with this larger group of practices. … Practices received feedback on the practice, provider, and patient levels.

286. Medical Home Transformation in Pediatric Primary Care--What Drives Change? (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-cooley.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - Number and Type of Practices There were 12 pediatric primary care practices in this project, including … The practices varied in size, serving between 528 and 27,597 patients each. … All six practices scored above the mean on national benchmarks. … Number and Type of Practices There were 12 pediatric primary care practices in this project, including … The practices varied in size, serving between 528 and 27,597 patients each.

287. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 8: Approaches to Quality Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-8-approaches-to-qi.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Best practices research. Fam Med 2003 Feb;35(2):131-4. … How might you use best practices research with your practices to improve their processes? … Your goal will be to instill these as habits in your practices. … Best Practices Research Best practices research is a powerful but less well-known QI approach that … Best practices research is an approach that can help you identify exemplar practices appropriate to

288. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 4: An Introduction to Practice Organization and Management (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-4-practice-management.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Special staffing issues in small practices. … Private or independent practices (IPs) are practices owned and operated by one or more physicians and … IPs vary in size from very small solo clinician practices to larger group and multispecialty practices … Nonprofit practices vary in size from the small solo practices to larger organizations with ten or more … External Resources for Primary Care Practices Practices may also participate in and receive support

289. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Setting the Target for Improving Heart Health in America (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/evidencenow.pdf
     February 01, 2017 - The following data show the percentage of patients receiving ABCS services from practices participating … Other practices have further to go. … The charts below show how EvidenceNOW practices are doing with delivering the ABCS to their patients … PRACTICES ACHIEVING VARIOUS LEVELS OF ABCS FOR APPROPRIATE PATIENTS Aspirin Use % O F PR AC TI … help primary care practices improve the care they provide.

290. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Setting the Target for Improving Heart Health in America (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/evidencenow-baseline.pdf
     February 01, 2017 - The following data show the percentage of patients receiving ABCS services from practices participating … Other practices have further to go. … The charts below show how EvidenceNOW practices are doing with delivering the ABCS to their patients … PRACTICES ACHIEVING VARIOUS LEVELS OF ABCS FOR APPROPRIATE PATIENTS Aspirin Use % O F PR AC TI … help primary care practices improve the care they provide.

291. Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/rinke-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Scope: Primary care pediatric practices Methods: During a cluster-randomized clinical trial, practices … Practices could always access all of their data independently. … The low attrition rate once practices were able to demonstrate data collection capacity (one of 31 practices … to be representative of all pediatric practices. … general pediatric practices.

292. How To Manage Change
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/module2_managingchange_slides.pptx
     June 02, 2025 - Assess current practices on a representative sample of units; do process mapping. … Which practices need changing? Determine how to build in new practices. … Do the care processes follow best practices? … In Module 3, we’ll compare this assessment with best practices. … Let’s look at completed Tool 2D now. 19 Assess Pressure Injury Screening Practices Tool 2E 20

293. Developing and Sustaining State-Based Infrastructure To Support Primary Care Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/how-to-guide/index.html
     August 01, 2024 - Building and Maintaining a Network of Primary Care Practices 4. … Building and Maintaining a Network of Primary Care Practices     Plan a Statewide Network of Practices … in a Broad Network       Supportive Services for Practices in a QI Project     Practice Facilitation … Quality Improvement Support for Practices in a Broad Network Table 5. … QI Supportive Services for Practices in a QI Project Table 6.

294. Building State Capacity Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/interim-reports.html
     August 01, 2025 - describes quality improvement support strategies that cooperatives used to improve heart health in practices … 1.8 MB) highlights barriers and facilitators to establishing cooperatives and recruiting primary care practices … Key findings revealed by both reports: Having prior relationships with practices is critical to formation … and engaging these partners early would have improved the development process Building a "network of practices … is a barrier to engagement and retention, and system affiliation of practices makes this particularly

295. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Oklahoma Cooperative (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/cooperatives/evidencenow-executive-summary-ok.pdf
     November 01, 2017 - The goal of this initiative is to ensure that primary care practices have the evidence they need to … account for 86 of the total 226 participating practices in the Oklahoma Cooperative … - and system-owned practices than Oklahoma City. … Lessons learned from high performing practices will be disseminated to all practices to help them improve … • Assuring financial security is the most important goal for most practices.

296. MUI Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/search.html?page=0
     June 01, 2024 - library contains tools and resources intended to support recruitment and retention of primary care practices … in primary care, but recruiting physician practices to join these projects is challenging, costly, and … Sample Patient Recruitment Flyer This patient recruitment flyer is an example of one way for practices … Flowchart This UI care pathway flowchart was created using draw.io by the EMPOWER study team to aid practices … Investing practice facilitation and sustained QI strategies in rural independent practices, where the

297. MUI Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/search.html
     June 01, 2024 - library contains tools and resources intended to support recruitment and retention of primary care practices … in primary care, but recruiting physician practices to join these projects is challenging, costly, and … Sample Patient Recruitment Flyer This patient recruitment flyer is an example of one way for practices … Flowchart This UI care pathway flowchart was created using draw.io by the EMPOWER study team to aid practices … Investing practice facilitation and sustained QI strategies in rural independent practices, where the

298. Spotlight on Maine -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-maine-state-snapshot.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - • Helping practices implement quality improvement projects. … a year and encouraged practices to use the reports to track their performance. … In a 2014 Statewide survey of pediatric and family practices (N=156), 80 percent of practices reported … A given collaborative engaged anywhere from 12 to 34 practices, with practices most likely to participate … practices.

299. Spotlight on Utah -- The National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/chipra-750-utah-state-snapshot.pdf
     January 01, 2018 - two-thirds of Utah’s pediatric practices) in QI activities … 12 child- serving practices (nine primary care practices and three specialty care practices) in a 3.5 … Participating practices— • Built QI capacity. … • Engaged families in practices. … • All practices expected to continue to support care coordinators.

300. Physician and Physician Practice Research Database, Geographic Physician Practice Public Use File Codebook (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Geographic-Physician-Practice-PUF-Codebook.pdf
     February 01, 2023 - Codebook The geographic Practice Public Use Files provide summarized information and characteristics of practices … .................................................................................15 Percentage of Practices … With Single Specialty Description (Label): Percentage of practices in the ZIP Code with a single … Physician Practice – Public Use File Percent PCP Focused Description (Label): Percentage of practices … Common Medical Specialty Description (Label): Medical specialty most common among the ZIP Code's practices