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21. 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

22. Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/diy-run-chart.html
    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

23. Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families in Evidence-Based Care and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/engage-patients-families.html
    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.

24. Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/implement-qi.html
    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.

25. 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

26. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/donahue.html
    August 01, 2018 - medicine, and 26% pediatric medicine, mostly independent practices. 32 practices had more than 7 clinicians … All participating practices reported monthly clinical quality measures. … Smaller practices were disproportionately affected by the costs of implementation because larger practices … Only 50 percent of practices had an electronic health record (EHR) at the outset of this project. … A number of practices added an EHR, or replaced/upgraded their existing EHR, during this project.

27. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Even before the pandemic, primary care practices were struggling with a healthcare landscape of practice … Deborah Cohen and others, revealed that, overall, primary care practices participating in EvidenceNOW … But given the scope of the initiative—we enlisted 1,500 small- to medium-sized primary care practices … EvidenceNOW also provided several insights on whether small- to medium-sized primary care practices would … EvidenceNOW Tools for Change is a collection of over 100 tools for primary care practices, practice

28. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical Home Recognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - practices; and practices affiliated with larger groups or owned by a hospital/health system. … All of the practices had fewer than five physicians, and one third were solo practices. … practices. … The resources available to the practices varied, even for those practices that had access to demonstration … information systems as higher barriers than Level 3 practices.

29. Health Care Transformation Among Small Urban Practices Serving the Underserved | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/berry.html
    April 01, 2015 - All the practices had five or fewer physicians; two thirds were solo practices and a majority were independent … Each of the practices served a diverse and disadvantaged patient population. … The practices implemented elements of the PCMH using existing resources, reflecting their small size … Many of the practices also implemented QI efforts to improve patient satisfaction. … The remaining practices did not pursue recognition.

30. A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/research-results/results/infographics/ehr.html
    April 01, 2019 - Results Results Infographics A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … Incontinence Tools for Change A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices (PDF, 1.2 MB) … originally created December 2018 Internet Citation: A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices

31. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices … Goals The goals of the CUSP implementation projects are to promote the adoption of evidence-based practices … create a powerful tool for promoting the adoption of evidence-based practices to prevent HAIs. … Improving surgical safety by promoting implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance surgical … The CUSP projects translate evidence into practice by accelerating the adoption of evidence-based practices

32. Medical Home Transformation in Pediatric Primary Care – What Drives Change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/cooley.html
    August 01, 2018 - practices in this project, including independent and hospital-owned practices, an academic clinic, and … The practices varied in size, serving between 528 and 27,597 patients each. … The practices also partnered with patients and families to identify goals and care strategies, which … All six practices scored above the mean on national benchmarks. … Two practices reported success in using EHR for care plans and that reporting was within reach.

33. A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - and Results Results Infographics A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices … Incontinence Tools for Change A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices (PDF, 863 KB)   … originally created September 2017 Internet Citation: A Snapshot of Participating Primary Care Practices

34. Key Driver 4: Create and Support High Functioning Care Teams to Deliver High-Quality Evidence-Based Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - Even in solo practices it is important to identify who are the practice’s active patients.  … Practices can explore delegating to other team members some tasks that the primary care clinician has … In other cases, practices will need to provide additional training. … Practices empower team members by creating a culture that emphasizes collaboration, celebrates each team … No one team size or structure will work for all practices.

35. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/transform-qi/deliver-facilitation/curriculum/index.html
    February 01, 2022 - 8: Approaches to Quality Improvement ( PDF , 771.7 KB) Module 9: Using Appreciative Inquiry with Practices … 10: Mapping and Redesigning Workflow ( PDF , 2.7 MB) Module 11: Using Root Cause Analysis to Help Practices … and Improve Their Performance and Outcomes ( PDF , 1 MB) Module 12: An Introduction to Assessing Practices … Running Effective Meetings and Creating Capacity for Practices to Run Effective Meetings ( PDF , 875 … KB) Module 23: Documenting Your Work With Practices ( PDF , 1.5 MB) Part 5: Implementing the Care

36. Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - As a result, many primary care practices struggle to adopt evidence-based practices to prevent and manage … Learn how external QI support helps these practices improve workflow and patient health. … In almost every 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.

37. Using CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Data | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cg/using-data/index.html
    December 01, 2023 - Identify Strengths and Weaknesses in Care Delivery Many medical practices, health systems, and health … Webcasts Many of AHRQ's webcasts offer insights, findings, and best practices related to improving … Achieving Excellence Across All CG-CAHPS Core Measures: Lessons from Top-Performing Medical Practices … A Tale of Three Practices: How Medical Groups Are Improving the Patient Experience (PDF, 508 KB). … Reward Physician Practices and Groups for Providing a Good Patient Experience Many healthcare payers

38. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4g_combo_psi10-postopmetaderangement-bestpractices.pdf
    May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4g Selected Best Practices and Suggestions … problems with guidelines compliance, identifies opportunities for improvement, and communicates best practices … o Determines appropriate facility resources for effective and permanent adoption of practices. … c=Page&pagename=QnetPublic/Page/QnetTier3&cid=1138900298473 Selected Best Practices and Suggestions

39. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4y_combo_nqi03-bsi-bestpractices.pdf
    May 17, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators … How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 1 Tool D.4y Selected Best Practices and Suggestions … ○ Determines appropriate facility resources for effective and permanent adoption of practices. … : ○ General infection prevention practices, such as hand hygiene and appropriate glove use, along … ○ Follow appropriate dressing assessment and replacement according to best practices specific to

40. Videos Tell the Story of EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/index.html
    September 01, 2021 - Cooperatives worked with more than 5,000 clinicians at over 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices … Results also showed that this approach improved the capacity of primary care practices to improve quality … using external support is already being expanded to address other health problems facing primary care practices … , and workforce disruptions to successfully provide support to small- and medium-sized primary care practices … This video discusses plans for using the EvidenceNOW model of external support to help primary care practices