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101. Key Themes Across Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-themes.html
     March 01, 2017 - In four grants, some of the practices were recognized as a PCMH while others were not. … In one study, none of the practices sought recognition, and another study did not report information … 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.

102. EvidenceNOW: A Model for Heart Health and Beyond (pdf file)
     www.innovations.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.

103. Evidence Now: Bridging Research & Practice in Primary Care (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/about/evidencenow-factsheet.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - The multi-State initiative worked closely with 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices … Through the initiative, the practices received customized support to improve the delivery of services … a comparison group of practices. … improvements than practices that started with higher capacity. … had higher delivery of the heart health services than other practices.”

104. Achievements in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

105. Quality Improvement Strategies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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.

106. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

107. IMPaCT (Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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.

108. How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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.

109. Transforming service delivery to promote quality of care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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.

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

111. Model State Enhancement Efforts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

112. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 23: Documenting Your Work With Practices (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-23-documenting-work-with-practices.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 23: Documenting Your Work With Practices Primary … the process used by your practices. … You will need to remind your practices and their QI teams about these limits as well. … Reporting Progress Across Your Practices You will need to report to your supervisor how your practices … Practices that completed a key change in one month may backslide the following month.

113. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/overview.html
     October 01, 2015 - ; and solo practices. … We collected information about what types of changes were implemented by the practices being studied … Only one of the 14 studies reported that practices implemented changes to fewer than four of the five … More specifically, we found the following: The practices studied by all 14 grants reported practice … In these learning collaboratives, teams from multiple practices met together as a group to learn from

114. Overview of the 14 Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/overview.html
     March 01, 2017 - ; and solo practices. … We collected information about what types of changes were implemented by the practices being studied … Only one of the 14 studies reported that practices implemented changes to fewer than four of the five … More specifically, we found the following: The practices studied by all 14 grants reported practice … In these learning collaboratives, teams from multiple practices met together as a group to learn from

115. Supplements to Evaluation Highlight No. 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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.

116. PA SPREAD: Pennsylvania Spreading Primary Care Enhanced Delivery Infrastructure | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-profile-pa.html
     April 01, 2015 - , 17 payers, and the primary care and business communities in an effort to help primary care practices … The PA SPREAD learning collaborative included primary care practices, government agencies, payers, … onsite visits for practices wishing to see exactly how processes were implemented at other sites. … Stage one involved convening stakeholders; stage two involved providing direct services to practices … Second, recruiting practices was difficult because of competing efforts within Pennsylvania.

117. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

118. EvidenceNOW Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.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

119. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
     www.innovations.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

120. Research Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/administration.html
     March 01, 2021 - some tips derived from the experiences of the EvidenceNOW Cooperatives on recruiting and retaining practices … AHRQ EvidenceNOW initiative set a goal of recruiting over 1500 small and medium sized primary care practices … EvidenceNOW was getting underway several federal and state-funded initiatives aimed at primary care practices … The EvidenceNOW Tipsheet on Recruitment and Retention describes mechanics of identifying practices … , provides examples of value proposition statements, and ideas on how to keep practices engaged throughout