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1. During National Primary Care Week, AHRQ Celebrates the Tradition of Primary Care Practices Delivering Whole-Person Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2023 - AHRQ leaders During National Primary Care Week, AHRQ Celebrates the Tradition of Primary Care Practices … Perhaps most important, primary care practices offer continuity of care across a patient’s lifetime, … AHRQ pays tribute to the nation’s primary care practices for their unique and critical contributions … AHRQ looks forward to future advances as primary care practices build upon their tradition as Americans … https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/primary-care-practices-delivering.html  

2. A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices (Text Description) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2019 - (Text Description) AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … Cooperatives assessed practices’ electronic health record (EHR) and data capabilities, which are  in … What Could Practices Do with Their EHRs Before EvidenceNOW? … What Types of Organizations Provided EHR Support to Practices Before EvidenceNOW? … Did EvidenceNOW Practices Use EHRs to share Data and Monitor Quality?

3. Best Practices in Fall Prevention
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   June 16, 2017 - Best Practices in Fall Prevention Best Practices in Fall Prevention ADD Hospital Name Here Module 3 … Best Practices Best practices are those care processes—based on literature and expert opinion—that … How to incorporate these practices into a Fall Prevention Program. ‹#› Which Practices Should Be Used … The practices selected and used need to be tailored to your hospital and the type of patients and care … of best practices

4. Implementing Near-Miss Reporting and Improvement Tracking in Primary Care Practices: Lessons Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2017 - Results Near-Miss Event Reporting by Practices The practices were all largely successful in reporting … the practices reached the minimum per month threshold. … Although our sample practices were diverse in type, size, and location, the practices were more representative … of early-adopter practices. … services, but these practices are not necessarily representative of “average” practices in the region

5. The EvidenceNOW Model: Providing External Support for Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2023 - Engage with primary care practices . … By allowing practices, and teams within practices, to gauge their performance relative to other similar … practices and teams, benchmarking can be a powerful approach for motivating practice change. … The extension service is a continuous resource for the practices with which it partners. … Practices may participate in some, but not all, of the initiatives led by the service.

6. Making Health Care Safer II | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2023 - review, and to select which practices received in-depth reviews and which received brief reviews. … In-depth reviews assessed practices on the following domains: How important is the problem? … , and those practices that were "encouraged" for adoption. … Results: From an initial list of over 100 patient safety practices, the stakeholders identified 41 practices … and 25 practices had at least "moderate" evidence of how to implement them.

7. About Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2021 - Primary care practices also need to know how to collect and analyze their own data to make sure they’ … Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … The EvidenceNOW Model recognizes that small- and medium-sized primary care practices, which represent … Linking hundreds of practices to regional health information exchanges. … and how to assist practices in using this research to deliver better care to their patients.

8. Making Healthcare Safer IV | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2024 - Making Healthcare Safer reports I, II, and III have shown a positive impact of patient safety practices … This  review  will serve as a baseline for the evidence of harms and patient safety practices to prevent … A technical expert panel (TEP) was convened to prioritize which topics and patient safety practices, … This review will serve as a baseline for the evidence of harms and patient safety practices to prevent … A set of  tables  compares the patient safety practices among the reports.

9. EvidenceNOW Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2022 - Learn how external quality improvement support helps primary care practices improve the way they work … Together they worked with more than 5,000 clinicians at more than 1,500 practices that serve about 8 … The purpose of the program is to disseminate and implement into primary care practices evidence-based … Together, the six grantees are expected to work with more than 700 primary care practices. … They will build statewide networks of primary care practices and provide selected practices with the

10. EvidenceNow Key Drivers and Change Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - 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.

11. Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices (Webcast) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices … Transcript Related Material Summary This Webcast highlighted success stories from two medical practices … The top-performing medical practices shared how they provide patients with positive experiences in the … & Group Survey Database Chartbook: What Patients Say About Their Health Care Providers and Medical Practices … the CAHPS ® Clinician & Group Survey for Quality Improvement ( PDF [3.45 MB] ) A Tale of Three Practices

12. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - that can improve patient safety across the healthcare system—from hospitals to primary care practices … The inaugural report consisted of 50 patient safety practices in eight categories encompassing commonly … That report added new evidence-based safety practices while updating some practices with new evidence … , and contained 41 patient safety practices.  … A set of  tables  compares the patient safety practices among the reports.

13. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html
    June 01, 2021 - Home Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Long-Term Care Toolkit Learn Best Practices … Moments Develop/Improve Stewardship Program Create a Culture of Safety Learn Best Practices … Best Practices Pocket Cards and Posters   Also review: Appropriate Collection of Microbiological … reviewed June 2021 Page originally created June 2021 Internet Citation: Learn Best Practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html  

14. Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Search for Tools & Resources Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices … Tools & Resources Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices … Resource: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 5.5  … MB, 111 page) This guide, based upon research on successful strategies used in practices with documented … outcomes, helps primary care practices implement care management.

15. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make … Practice facilitation can: Increase practices’ capacity to implement the best clinical evidence. … Connect practices to information, resources, and strategies to improve care. … Help practices overcome EHR challenges and optimize their EHR for meeting quality improvement goals. … Help practices harness patient and practice data to identify gaps in care and effects of improvement

16. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses Best … Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Best Practices in the Diagnosis … and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of … difficile Infections Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis Best Practices in

17. Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families in Evidence-Based Care and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Practices need to know how to identify patients who are affected by new evidence, communicate clearly … Practices can also convene groups of patients and families, as well as other members of the community … Some practices obtain feedback by administering brief surveys. … Practices should train staff in these skills and consider periodic refreshers. … Practices can establish protocols to identify affected patients as they come for appointments.

18. Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Small practices can start simply, using common sense and a can-do attitude to get the process going. … Practices that are part of larger systems may have more QI resources to draw on and likely will need … What matters is that practices choose at least one, learn how to use it, set goals, and start making … However, practices should recruit team members to lead QI work and carve out time to plan and execute … In very small practices, the QI Team may encompass the entire staff.

19. Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Change Search for Tools & Resources Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices … Search for Tools & Resources Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices … Resource: Do It Yourself Run Chart  (XLSX, 86 KB) Primary care practices can use this Excel … By creating a visual display of their quality improvement progress, this tool can help practices use … originally created October 2018 Internet Citation: Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices

20. Key Driver 3: Optimize Health Information Systems to Extract Data and Support Use of Evidence in Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Practices may have focused their data efforts on producing information related to payment incentives … 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. … Although practice-level data are useful, practices that link patients with individual clinicians and