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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/demostates/mastateataglance.pdf
March 01, 2012 - consumers based on those measures, (3)
support medical home practice transformation for a group of practices … Measures requiring medical record abstraction are being collected from the practices
participating in … for the core measures that can be
calculated at that level and will determine their usefulness to practices …
Assessing a Provider‐Based Model of Care
Massachusetts is collaborating with 13 practices … Practices are receiving
financial support for implementing changes.
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-id-success-story.html
April 01, 2015 - across the State into PCMHs—with an ambitious goal of implementing the model at 55 practices per year … Key goals of Idaho’s State Healthcare Innovation Plan:
Transform primary care practices across … The collaboratives will focus on recruiting primary care practices and providing local support to those … practices as they transform into medical homes. … This train-the-trainer approach will put Idaho’s collaboratives in a good position to support practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/cost-guide/methodology-references.html
February 01, 2017 - What does it cost physician practices to interact with health insurance plans? … The impact of electronic health records on workflow and financial measures in primary care practices. … The financial and nonfinancial costs of implementing electronic health records in primary care practices … Cost to primary care practices of responding to payer requests for quality and performance data. … Costs and benefits of transforming primary care practices: a qualitative study of North Carolina’s Improving
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/es/tools/index.html
December 01, 2015 - Five-step process for clinicians and their patients More
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change Helping practices … clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections and make care safer by following clinical best practices … Stewardship Toolkits
Three toolkits that help hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices … Community Connections Obesity Referral Toolkit
This toolkit helps primary care practices … team members work together and builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/tools/index.html
December 01, 2015 - Five-step process for clinicians and their patients More
EvidenceNOW Tools for Change Helping practices … clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections and make care safer by following clinical best practices … Stewardship Toolkits
Three toolkits that help hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory practices … Community Connections Obesity Referral Toolkit
This toolkit helps primary care practices … team members work together and builds the capacity to address safety issues by combining clinical best practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/opioids/whats-new/index.html
November 01, 2023 - Are Available But Not Regularly Used in Primary Care Settings
An AHRQ-funded study of primary care practices … Refer to The Current State of Alcohol Screening and Management in Virginia Primary Care Practices in … of OUD
Using a national cross-section database of multi-physician primary care and multispecialty practices … technology (IT) and access to onsite behavioral clinicians were associated with a higher extent of physician practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/pbrn/index.html
October 01, 2018 - primary care research and dissemination." 1 A PBRN is a group of 15 to several hundred primary care practices … These practices are united by a shared commitment to expand the science base of clinical care through … Often affiliated with academic or professional organizations, these practices investigate questions of … Impact of decisions made by patients about health care and health practices for themselves, their families … AHRQ defines a primary care practice-based research network, or PBRN, as a group of ambulatory practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/research/index.html
March 01, 2024 - The first goal is to learn how ambulatory care practices can use measures of patient engagement and shared … Key Findings:
Practice leaders used CAHPS survey results to discuss best practices, share data with … Reasons Primary Care Practices Chose Patient Experience Surveys during Patient-Centered Medical Home … Practices and Changes Associated with Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation. … A Review of Best Practices for Monitoring and Improving Inpatient Pediatric Patient Experiences.
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160315/rick-evans-slides.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Initiatives for Improvement
Cabinets – facility, divisional
Action plans with targets
– Use best practices … and team results
Leader bandwidth Link to other priorities
Provider cynicism and burnout Make best practices … learned and take-home points
Know your survey and your data
Pick the right evidence based best
practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps/longtermcare/module8/ts2-0ltc_module8_ig_chmgmt.pdf
June 09, 2017 - IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICES (10 Minutes)
1. … PRIORITIZE BEST PRACTICES (10 Minutes)
1. … may add new
practices if they choose to do so.
2. … Ask each group to report which best practices they identified
as most important. … Ask the participants to review the final list of “important” best
practices.
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/impactgrants/impact-ny-success-story.html
April 01, 2015 - The momentum was slowest among small private practices that did not have the infrastructure or resources … The program acted as a hub for practices to help them access needed information and expertise, and connected … practices with persons who could assist with, for example, electronic health record implementation, … The practices, relationships, and payers are different from region to region. … Devise a payment strategy that is multipayer and will pay practices differently if they have achieved
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/driscoll.html
April 01, 2015 - Institution: University of Alaska, Anchorage AHRQ Grant Number: R18 HS019154
Number and Type of Practices … This project included adult and pediatric primary care practices at SCF, a tribally owned and managed … Lessons Learned and Implications for Others
Important practices for PCMH leaders included: communicating … management decisions and mandated practices in a clear and transparent manner; monitoring staff for … environment; and developing an infrastructure (e.g., buildings, co-location of services) that supported PCMH practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/index.html
Facilitation Curriculum
Training modules to enhance practice facilitators' skills to support primary care practices … Tools for Change
Tools to help primary care practices implement the best evidence
Practice-Based … Research Initiatives
AHRQ invests in primary care research to help primary care practices improve … about what works best in creating and sustaining primary care infrastructure, with tools and resources practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/overview/component-kit.docx
May 01, 2017 - Module 1- Component Kit
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability … Module 1: Overview
A Frontline Management System To Sustain Improvement in Safety Practices
Contents … In ambulatory surgery, proven safety practices such as preoperative timeouts, standard checklists for … But sustaining these safety practices over time, with the attention to detail they require, is challenging … management—from the charge nurse level to the executive suite—was crucial to sustaining standardized practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/index.html
March 01, 2023 - begin to develop the knowledge and skills needed to support meaningful improvement in primary care practices … Practice facilitation is an evidence-based approach to quality improvement in primary care practices. … organizations interested in starting a practice facilitation program designed to with primary care practices … This toolkit and companion implementation guide help adult and pediatric practices reduce the complexity … care, for use by practice facilitators and other quality improvement “agents” to help them optimize practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/chsp/about-chsp/centers/index.html
July 01, 2019 - Healthcare Organizations and Systems, which included responses from more than 3,300 healthcare leaders in practices … performance to study topics such as the consequences of corporate consolidation and the diffusion of best practices … Synthesize and Disseminate Research on Health System Performance
To speed the adoption of practices … is creating a compendium that will enable users to access health system data and information about practices … The compendium will also provide data analyses, research syntheses, best practices, and lessons learned
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/qitool/webinar080116/index.html
December 01, 2017 - Step 1: Diagnose the Problem
Step 2: Plan and Implement Best Practices
Step 3: Measure Results and … to the clinical best practices (Tool D.4)
Tools D4.a through D4.y outline best practices for selected … High-level summary of best practices
Recommended practices
Staff required
Equipment
Communication … practices
This is a form for performing gap analyses. … practices, barriers to best practice implementation, and if the user will implement best practices.
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/qtag-presentation.pdf
September 01, 2015 - 1) Compare performance of plans, agencies to
national benchmarks
2) Identify variation in practices … Stipulating benchmarks in managed care contracts
can be used to drive performance
- Offering TA to practices … for
State-based QI initiatives, cont’d
What States did
- Worked with
Child-serving practices … initiating practice transformation
Critical to engage providers in defining LC topics
- Hard to engage practices … Most demonstration States working on HIT projects faced
major challenges
- Interoperability between practices
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/job-aid-5-whys.pdf
May 17, 2021 - 1
Job Aid: 5 Whys and Fishbone Diagrams
Overview
The 5 Whys and fishbone diagrams help practices … Practices
then use this information to generate and prioritize ideas for improvement. … Practices can
create their own or use already existing category sets like this healthcare one: people
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www.monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-32-self-management-support.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Transforming Practices into Medical Homes slide show by Safety Net Medical Home Initiative. … What role can a facilitator play in assisting practices to improve self-management support and
why … Practices provide self-management support to patients in a variety of ways. … Practices using this approach will need to identify and vet these
community-based programs. … You and your practices will need to customize the
list of tasks and staff.