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61. Spotlight on Vermont | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/vt-spotlight.html
    July 01, 2015 - enhanced payments based on the practices’ PCMH recognition scores. … Helped practices obtain PCMH recognition. … Community health teams working with pediatric practices and care coordinators within the practices told … Helped practices use electronic data to improve care. … The electronic registry was most useful for practices without EHRs.

62. AHRQ Practice Facilitation Training Modules: Additional Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/modules/resources.html
    July 01, 2022 - Practices can have their own personalities. … care practices’ capacity to make changes needed to implement heart health evidence. … Tables, Graphs, Dashboards, & Reports: Data Visualization Best Practices  (PDF, 711 KB) offers best practices … Practices Excel spreadsheet to create run charts to track their progress in QI. … skills taught in the module Helping Practices Scale Improvements.

63. EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/state/index.html
    September 01, 2023 - However, many primary care practices continue to struggle to find and incorporate the best evidence from … 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 … comprehensive, evidence-based approach for a heart health improvement project involving 50 or more practices

64. State at a Glance: South Carolina | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/sc.html
    March 01, 2019 - Activities under each category will occur in 18 pilot practices. … The practices include 12 pediatric practices, three academic practices, and three federally qualified … health centers (FQHCs), representing small, medium, and large practices located in rural and urban settings … The practices intend to implement electronic health records (EHR). … By the end of 2013, the grant had four practices who were PCMH recognized and 10 others working on the

65. Advancing Heart Health Research and Results: What We've Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/index.html
    April 01, 2022 - 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). … Whether practices expand their capacity for quality improvement and implementation of new evidence into … How external support is organized to help practices change and improve.

66. EvidenceNOW Tools for Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/index.html
    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

67. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/education-bundles.html
    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

68. EvidenceNOW: A Model for Heart Health and Beyond (pdf file)
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/heart-health/evidencenow-story.pdf
    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.

69. Achievements in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/achievements.html
    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

70. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/qi-strategies.html
    July 01, 2021 - Although there was no immediate effect noted, compared to control practices, the participating practices … In the SF Collaborative, primary care practices participated in a 12-month learning collaborative. … These practices were ready to take a “deep dive” into their existing processes. … In smaller practices, this may cover close to a one-year period, while in larger practices, 25 charts … Use of Asthma APGAR Tools in Primary Care Practices: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

71. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/index.html
    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

72. IMPaCT (Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/impactaw/index.html
    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.

73. How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight02.html
    May 01, 2013 - by asking them to complete forms that would not be directly helpful to the practices. … geographic location, but selected practices do not necessarily reflect the mix of practices in each … in these States or child-serving practices more generally.[ 11 ] Twenty-five intervention practices … program, many practices have substantial room to improve. … option for collecting information on medical homeness for child-serving practices.

74. Transforming service delivery to promote quality of care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary3.html
    September 01, 2015 - Intensive one-on-one support (such as technical assistance or practice facilitation) to help practices … With encouragement from the State, practices used a self-administered assessment of medical homeness … Seventeen of the 21 practices hired new care coordinators to accomplish these tasks. … Practices highly valued the new care coordination staff and functions. … a high value on learning from other practices.

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

76. Supplements to Evaluation Highlight No. 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight02.html
    May 01, 2013 - and the MHI-RSF in comparison practices. … MHI-RSF versus MHI Scores At baseline, 33 practices shared data on the full MHI and 71 practices on the … MHI-RSF; counts include both intervention and comparison practices. … Despite these efforts, the practices selected in a particular State may not reflect the mix of practices … Moreover, some States have a very small number of demonstration practices.

77. EvidenceNOW Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/results/infographics.html
    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

78. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/index.html
    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

79. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level.xlsx
    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

80. Comparative Reports on Physicians | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cahps.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/physicians.html
    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