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241. How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module4/module4_pu-implementation_slides.pptx
     November 20, 2014 - Examined current practices and identified aspects needing improvement (Module 2). … Examined best practices and made preliminary decisions on what best practices will be included in your … 4 4 Planning Goals Plan how you will: Put best practices into operation. … Pilot test the new best practices. 5 Planning Goals Plan how you will: Get staff engaged and excited … In that case, be sure to assign a backup person. 8 List of Best Practices Preliminary list of best

242. Module 5: PowerPoint Presentation
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/visual/visual-mgmt.pptx
     May 01, 2017 - Module 5: PowerPoint Presentation Management Practices for Sustainability Module 5: Visual Management … improvement Module 5: Visual Management| ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Management Practices … Module 5: Visual Management| ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Management Practices for … Module 5: Visual Management| ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Management Practices for … Module 5: Visual Management| ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Management Practices for

243. Coordination (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - So tell us what you learned about how practices struggle with coordination. … Melinda Karp I’d like to frame it as both how practices and patients struggle with care coordination … And I think we can look both locally and nationally at how both patients and, therefore, practices are … Carla Zema I know you’ve got a lot of great examples of how practices have improved coordination, but … And one of the strategies that MHQP is employing with practices is this campaign called, “Expect the

244. TransforMN Study (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-solberg.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - of Transformation Efforts In 2010 the Minnesota Department of Health began certifying primary care practices … for practices that were already certified to help support their ongoing transformation efforts. … Each practice, or group of practices, determined how to best implement changes to meet the standards … Number and Type of Practices This project included 132 certified HCHs. … In general, transformation efforts cost far more than the practices received back in additional payments

245. Conclusions and Implications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/conclusions.html
     October 01, 2015 - Small, independent practices and safety net clinics face additional barriers to transformation because … they do not have access to the resources and infrastructure available to larger, better-funded practices … Policy efforts to determine how to best support the transformation of small, independent practices and … safety net clinics will be essential to ensuring these practices can provide the best care for their … of this change, additional modifications to the U.S. health care payment model are needed to reward practices

246. Conclusions and Implications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/conclusions-and-implications.html
     March 01, 2017 - Small, independent practices and safety net clinics face additional barriers to transformation because … they do not have access to the resources and infrastructure available to larger, better-funded practices … Policy efforts to determine how to best support the transformation of small, independent practices and … safety net clinics will be essential to ensuring these practices can provide the best care for their … of this change, additional modifications to the U.S. health care payment model are needed to reward practices

247. How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States working to improve adolescent health care? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight03.html
     August 01, 2013 - North Carolina and Utah are offering participating primary care practices ongoing Webinars on general … Encouraging practices to adopt a patient screening questionnaire . … —Utah Health Care Provider, May 2012 Offering practices maintenance-of-certification (MOC) credit … By the end of North Carolina’s QI collaborative, 87 percent of participating practices had adopted a … Develop and maintain lists of mental health resources and distribute these to primary care practices.

248. Practical Solutions for Supporting Primary Care Quality Improvement with Health Information Technology (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/EvidenceNOW-Webinar-Practical-Solutions.pdf
     May 01, 2018 - curriculum-tools/teamstepps/primarycare/ Goal is to ensure that primary care practices … care practice to improve health care quality – Focus on heart health (ABCS) • Build primary care practices … IT Developers • Consider how health IT design and standards can support or hinder primary care practices … On Health IT Costs: “This [cost of health IT\ is wiping out practices that are on their … and rural system practices most able to produce measures More Information

249. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource for Practice Improvement (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Practices with little existing capacity for improvement will require more. … • Document exemplars and best practices and share with program, facilitation community, and practices … Settings range from small, private practices to large multispecialty group practices, from urban to … practices to adopt evidence-based guidelines. … The practices were randomly assigned to self-directed or facilitated change conditions.

250. Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/infection-control-and-prevention.pdf
     March 01, 2022 - Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention in Nursing Homes … Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection … Nursing home staff should use best practices for infection prevention to help keep residents, staff, … These practices include limiting high-risk activities (for example, crowded indoor events), wearing

251. Module 17: Introducing a Practice to Facilitation (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - Tell two stories that illustrate the activities of facilitators in practices. … How will you use this information with your practices? After the session. … Practices sometimes comment, “I wish I had understood sooner how to use the practice facilitator.” … • Tell stories about the work you’ve done with other practices. … Engaging Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement: Strategies for Practice Facilitators.

252. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/practice-facilitation.html
     December 01, 2023 - Practice facilitation is an approach to supporting improvement in primary care practices that focuses … Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make

253. Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/pediatric.html
     December 01, 2017 - It also includes 13 indicator-specific best practices for improving performance on the AHRQ Pediatric … Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvements Includes introduction to indicator-specific … best practices and detailed information on best practices for selected indicators Introduction PDF … Gap Analysis Includes a tool to help you understand how your organization's practices align with best … practices to identify potential areas for improvement PDF [ - 51.4 KB] Word [48.25 KB] D.6.

254. Module 4: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-4/slides.html
     September 01, 2017 - Identified best practices and made preliminary decisions on what best practices will be included in your … What fall prevention practices go beyond the unit? … How do you pilot test the new practices?  … How can you help staff learn new practices? … Best Practices is shown.

255. Transforming Primary Care: Evaluating the Spread of Group Health's Medical Home (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-reid.pdf
     April 01, 2015 - To facilitate spread across the practices, the redesign was segmented into four practice change and … management, use of team huddles, strategy for hiring new staff and redistributing patients across practices … , and standardized management practices to be used by clinic leaders (including root cause analysis, … Number and Type of Practices This project included 26 practices in an integrated (nonprofit, consumer-governed … Utilization • Compared with what would be expected with no PCMH implementation, practices undergoing

256. Appendix B. Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Diabetes HbA1c <9% LDL cholesterol <100 mg/dL Blood pressure <130/80 mm Hg Percent of practices … of patients achieving the target value in the first year of PCMH transformation: HbA1c: 50% of practices … LDL cholesterol: 55% of practices Blood pressure: 73% of practices Transforming Primary Care … following PCMH transformation Level of improvement varied by practice: In the five most-improved practices … , and blood pressure increased by 8.8%, 14.9%, and 19.4%, respectively In the five least-improved practices

257. Appendix B. Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/health-outcomes-reported.html
     March 01, 2017 - Diabetes HbA1c <9% LDL cholesterol <100 mg/dL Blood pressure <130/80 mm Hg Percent of practices … of patients achieving the target value in the first year of PCMH transformation: HbA1c: 50% of practices … LDL cholesterol: 55% of practices Blood pressure: 73% of practices Transforming Primary Care … Level of improvement varied by practice: In the five most-improved practices, the percent of patients … In the five least-improved practices, the percent of patients meeting the target values for HbA1c, LDL

258. Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation: A Practical Guide and Synthesis Report (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/estimating-costs-primary-care-transformation.pdf
     July 31, 2015 - The organizational structures of the practices varied and included independent practices, for-profit … ranging from solo rural practices to large urban multispecialty primary care practices. … practices were recognized at Level 3, and three at Level 1. … with mature PCMH practices. … primary care practices The six participating practices were already providing or considering

259. Job Aid: Introduction to Quality Improvement (pdf file)
     www.innovations.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-intro-qi.pdf
     May 18, 2021 - Introduction to Quality Improvement Quality Improvement (QI) Basics The QI Process You will be helping practices … Here are three common QI frameworks used by primary care practices. … Primary Care Practice Facilitator Training Series 2 Aligning QI Work with Practices’ Goals … Align the goals of your facilitation effort with practices’ priorities to build the productive relationships … Goals of primary care practices typically fall into three categories:  Improving quality of patient

260. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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     August 31, 2017 - What aspects of the care process already follow best practices? … hospital’s pressure injury prevention practices. … What practices need changing. How to build new practices into ongoing routines. … Which practices need changing and how the new practices can be built into ongoing routines. … Standards of care and best practices to be met.