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301. Practical Solutions for Supporting Primary Care Quality Improvement with Health Information Technology (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.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

302. How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States working to improve adolescent health care? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.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.

303. Ncahec (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/improve/system/pfcasestudies/ncahec.pdf
     August 01, 2014 - To recruit the start-up practices, the director reached out to practices and stakeholder groups, like … Once practices had been identified, the director began active facilitation work in these practices. … who is already working with the practices. … as a method of sharing best practices. … Trains coaches in assisting practices applying for recognition.

304. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 2: Practice Facilitation as a Resource for Practice Improvement (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-2-pf-as-a-resource.pdf
     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.

305. Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.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

306. Module 17: Introducing a Practice to Facilitation (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-17-introducing-a-practice-to-pf.pdf
     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.

307. Chapter 6. Measure Maps and Profiles (continued, 10) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/care/coordination/atlas/chapter6i.html
     June 01, 2014 - Continuity of Care Practices Survey — Program Level (CCPS-P) Care Coordination Measure Mapping Table … Assessing continuity of care practices in substance use disorder treatment programs. … Continuity of Care Practices and Substance Use Disorder Patients' Engagement in Continuing Care. … Assessing continuity of care practices in substance use disorder treatment programs. … Continuity of Care Practices and Substance Use Disorder Patients' Engagement in Continuing Care.

308. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/overview.html
     January 01, 2013 - Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? 4. … A number of practices have been shown to reduce the occurrence of falls, but these practices are not … Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? … How do you implement best practices in your organization? … How do you measure fall rates and fall prevention practices?

309. Module 4: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.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.

310. Transforming Primary Care: Evaluating the Spread of Group Health's Medical Home (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.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

311. Fallpxtool4A (doc file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtool4a.docx
     January 29, 2013 - 4A: Assigning Responsibilities for Using Best Practices Background: This tool can be used to determine … who will be responsible for each task identified in your set of best practices for preventing falls. … How to use this tool: Complete the table by entering the different best practices and the specific individuals … What practices will we use? Who will be responsible?

312. Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.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.

313. Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Ginsberg Presentation (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/best-practices-survey-administration-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
     February 08, 2024 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Ginsberg Presentation AHRQ’s Surveys … science-based agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services that supports evidence-based practices

314. Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation: A Practical Guide and Synthesis Report (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.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

315. Harvard Used AHRQ Data to Develop Tool to Analyze Utilization, Costs in Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201612.html
     September 01, 2016 - Working with seven Boston-area academic medical centers and 28 primary care practices, as well as the … "Practices need to make the business case for adding staff and need to explain to their chief financial … that simulate real-world practice settings, in order to analyze how different variables could affect practices … Hospitals and primary care practices in the collaborative—together treating approximately 300,000 patients—can … questions, including the impact of new payment models on the structure and finances of primary care practices

316. Appendix B. Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/appb.html
     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

317. Appendix B. Health Outcomes Reported in Transforming Primary Care Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.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

318. Job Aid: Introduction to Quality Improvement (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.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

319. PowerPoint Presentation
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/building-better-primary-care.pptx
     October 01, 2018 - Webinar Welcome and Introductions (Jan Genevro) EvidenceNOW 101 (Bob McNellis) Tools and Resources for Practices … The Goals of EvidenceNOW Help practices implement evidence to improve health care with a focus on the … ABCS Help practices identify ways to build their capacity to receive and incorporate evidence in the … future Learn how external QI support helps primary care practices improve the way they work and improve … Findings Findings Findings Findings Timeline 15 Tools and Resources for Practices

320. Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/sustaining-antibiotic-guide.docx
     September 01, 2022 - A cluster-randomized controlled trial of pediatric practices was undertaken in which entire practices … Practices in the intervention arm received a 1-hour education session followed by a year of practice-level … Practices in the control arm did not receive any targeted education and did not receive periodic reports … At the end of the one-year study period, practices in the first group experienced a 50 percent reduction … These practices are offered as helpful options for consideration by healthcare practitioners, not as