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21. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
    July 01, 2023 - that can improve patient safety across the healthcare system—from hospitals to primary care practices … The inaugural report consisted of 50 patient safety practices in eight categories encompassing commonly … That report added new evidence-based safety practices while updating some practices with new evidence … , and contained 41 patient safety practices.  … A set of  tables  compares the patient safety practices among the reports.

22. Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/care-management.html
    November 01, 2019 - Search for Tools & Resources Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices … Tools & Resources Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices … Resource: Care Management – An Implementation Guide for Primary Care Practices (PDF, 5.5  … MB, 111 page) This guide, based upon research on successful strategies used in practices with documented … outcomes, helps primary care practices implement care management.

23. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/practice-facilitation/index.html
    February 01, 2023 - Practice facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with primary care practices to make … Practice facilitation can: Increase practices’ capacity to implement the best clinical evidence. … Connect practices to information, resources, and strategies to improve care. … Help practices overcome EHR challenges and optimize their EHR for meeting quality improvement goals. … Help practices harness patient and practice data to identify gaps in care and effects of improvement

24. Best Practices Pocket Cards & Posters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/posters.html
    June 01, 2021 - Home Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Long-Term Care Toolkit Learn Best Practices … Moments Develop/Improve Stewardship Program Create a Culture of Safety Learn Best Practices … Penicillin Allergies and Other Side Effects Pocket Cards & Posters Best Practices … Page last reviewed June 2021 Page originally created June 2021 Internet Citation: Best Practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/posters.html  

25. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html
    June 01, 2021 - Home Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Long-Term Care Toolkit Learn Best Practices … Moments Develop/Improve Stewardship Program Create a Culture of Safety Learn Best Practices … Best Practices Pocket Cards and Posters   Also review: Appropriate Collection of Microbiological … reviewed June 2021 Page originally created June 2021 Internet Citation: Learn Best Practices … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html  

26. Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices Through Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/pharmacy/index.html
    September 01, 2020 - Literacy Professional Education and Training Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices … Education Research Tools, Data, and Funding Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices … Quality Improvement Next Page Table of Contents Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices … Guides 1-7)     Improving Communication in Pharmacy (Guides 8-11)     Assessing the Health Literacy Practices … originally created December 2011 Internet Citation: Advancing Pharmacy Health Literacy Practices

27. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/diagnosis/index.html
    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

28. Do It Yourself Run Chart for Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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

29. Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families in Evidence-Based Care and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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.

30. Key Driver 2: Implement a Data-driven Quality Improvement Process to Integrate Evidence into Practice Procedures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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.

31. Key Driver 3: Optimize Health Information Systems to Extract Data and Support Use of Evidence in Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/tools/keydrivers/optimize-health-it.html
    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

32. Transforming Primary Care Practice in North Carolina | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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.

33. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/delivery-primary-care.html
    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

34. Understanding the Transformation Experiences of Small Practices With National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical Home Recognition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/profile/hudsonscholle.html
    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.

35. Health Care Transformation Among Small Urban Practices Serving the Underserved | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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.

36. Activity Guides 12-15 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/pharmacy/guide-12-15.html
    September 01, 2020 - Advancing Health Literacy Practices in Pharmacy through Quality Improvement—Part II . … Advancing Health Literacy Practices in Pharmacy through Quality Improvement—Part II . … Recommend areas to improve health literacy practices of a pharmacy. … Advancing Health Literacy Practices in Pharmacy through Quality Improvement—Part II . … Advancing Health Literacy Practices in Pharmacy through Quality Improvement—Part II .

37. A Snapshot of EHR Use in Small Primary Care Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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

38. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/summary/index.html
    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

39. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/skin-soft-tissue.html
    September 01, 2022 - Home Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Ambulatory Care Toolkit Learn Best Practices … Ambulatory Care Toolkit Four Moments Learn Strategies for Communicating Learn Best Practices … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses – Slides … (PPTX, 5.7 MB) Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/skin-soft-tissue.html

40. Medical Home Transformation in Pediatric Primary Care – What Drives Change? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.qualitymeasures.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.