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61. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/index.html
    October 01, 2022 - Moments Develop/Improve Stewardship Program Create a Culture of Safety Learn Best Practices … stewardship program, creating a safety culture around antibiotic prescribing, and disseminating best practices … Learning and disseminating best practices for common infectious disease syndromes. … safety around antibiotic prescribing Develop and improve your stewardship program Learn best practices … that you review the content in “Create a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best practices

62. EvidenceNOW: Northwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/northwest.html
    March 01, 2021 - Reach Number of Participating Practices: 209 Location 45 percent urban 18 percent rural 36 … This support enhances the practices' capacity to use new PCOR findings to change their care practices … Practices randomized to the educational outreach intervention learned about team-based implementation … Practices were randomized to one of four intervention arms of the study using a two-by-two factorial … Healthy Hearts Northwest has, however, provided a 'North Star' for many practices.

63. Infographic - Strategies Used by Effective Practice Facilitators (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/practice-facilitators-effectiveness-infographic.pdf
    September 01, 2022 - found that practices working with more effective facilitators had a 3.6% higher improvement in mean … choose to focus on Tailor quality improvement activities to primary care practices’ needs, goals, … and preferences Guide Primary Care Practices Through the Change Process Assess practices’ readiness … from other practices to “cross-pollinate” ideas and stimulate thinking Empower and guide practice … Individual practice characteristics can also influence the strategies facilitators use and practices

64. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4_combo_bestpracticescover.pdf
    June 05, 2016 - Which QIs have best practices forms? … to recommend best practices. … Why are there only best practices for selected QIs? … to be captured by one best practices form. … However, the creation of a very general best practices form about general practices related to preventing

65. Health Care Transformation Among Small Urban Practices Serving the Underserved (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/tpc-profile-berry.pdf
    April 01, 2015 - Each of the practices served a diverse and disadvantaged patient population. … Many of the practices also implemented QI efforts to improve patient satisfaction. … Number and Type of Practices This project included 83 primary care practices that served racially … All the practices had five or fewer physicians; two thirds were solo practices and a majority were … The remaining practices did not pursue recognition.

66. EvidenceNOW: Virginia Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/virginia.html
    March 01, 2021 - Increase practices' capacity to integrate new PCOR findings on an ongoing basis. … can find and share announcements, ideas, insights, and promising practices. … Update Virginia recruited 240 practices, 208 of which are still active. … It currently has collected data on the ABCS measures from 124 practices. … that practices could run their own data reports.

67. Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum Module 27: Helping Practices Optimize EHRs for Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation and Quality Improvement (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-27-ehr-and-pcmh.pdf
    January 15, 2024 - Some of the actions you can take to support practices include: • help practices assess current use … Helping Practices Optimize EHR Use While many practices have implemented EHRs, few are using them to … Help practices take action on reports. … A Note About Small Practices and EHRs When you are working with small practices and EHRs, be aware … Ways to Help Practices Use Their EHRs to Support PCMH and Quality Providing EHR Support to Practices

68. Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/materials/prevention/im-injections.html
    July 01, 2021 - Materials by Topic Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices … Catalog News Best Practice Summaries Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices … Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing Homes  (PDF, 580.6 … KB) This reference tool provides best practices for administering intramuscular injections, including … Page originally created July 2021 Internet Citation: Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices

69. EvidenceNOW: New York City Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/nyc.html
    March 01, 2021 - Telephone and email exchanges with practices as needed Update The New York City Cooperative is … working with practices through two organizations. … Most of the participating practices (257) are part of the Primary Care Information Project, or PCIP, … Nineteen additional practices are members of the Community Health Care Association of New York State, … "Working in these very small practices, we are seeing how much they are part of their communities.

70. EvidenceNOW: Evaluation Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/methods/measures.html
    August 01, 2018 - New York City All practices start as a control prior to block randomization. … Randomization of practices occurs in four waves every 3 months. … All practices receive coaching. … Practices will be stratified by State to control for context. … close; the two practices in each pair are in different waves of the study.

71. Module 4: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-4/guide.html
    October 01, 2017 - How do you put the new practices into operation? How can you help staff learn new practices? … How will you pilot test the new practices? … The best practices to be incorporated at your hospital are ( best practices selected by the group ). … list of best practices on Tool 4A. … To help staff accept the new set of practices fully, ensure they understand that those practices offer

72. EvidenceNOW: Oklahoma Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/oklahoma.html
    March 01, 2021 - Lessons learned from high performing practices will be disseminated to all practices to help them improve … Oklahoma made these observations about working with practices on quality improvement: Relationships … Assuring financial security is the most important goal for most practices. … *Clinician-owned practices account for 86 of the total 226 participating practices in the Oklahoma Cooperative … - and system-owned practices than Oklahoma City.

73. EvidenceNOW: Southwest Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/southwest.html
    March 01, 2021 - Reach Number of Participating Practices: 202 Location 69.8 percent urban 28.2 percent rural … The practices represent a mix of small solo or group practices, community health centers, and nearly … a third are multispecialty practices. … As of June 2017, 190 practices had reported at least one ABCS measure. … Practices are randomized at the county level within New Mexico and Colorado.

74. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States supporting the use of care coordinators? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight09.html
    July 01, 2014 - The experiences of these States and practices may be helpful to other States and practices interested … When no practices responded to the RFP, West Virginia responded to the practices’ reluctance to share … grant CHIPRA quality demonstration grant Hiring responsibility Practices State and practices … together Department of Public Health Practices First the State, then practices State and practices … together Employer Practices State Department of Public Health Practices First the State,

75. Appendix A. Key Characteristics of Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research-transform-primary-care/transform/synthesis-report/appa.html
    October 01, 2015 - Range of structure types, but mostly independent. 32 practices with seven or more clinicians, 26 practices … , Federally Qualified Health Centers, and practices belonging to health systems Practices varied in … One third were solo practices. … Serving the Underserved 21% of practices had EHRs before participating in the project; all practices … The remaining practices did not pursue recognition.

76. Appendix A. Key Characteristics of Transforming Primary Care Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/grants-transform/key-characteristics.html
    March 01, 2017 - Range of structure types, but mostly independent. 32 practices with seven or more clinicians, 26 practices … , Federally Qualified Health Centers, and practices belonging to health systems Practices varied in … One third were solo practices. … Serving the Underserved 21% of practices had EHRs before participating in the project; all practices … The remaining practices did not pursue recognition.

77. Research Initiatives | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/index.html
    January 01, 2024 - has made major investments in research initiatives to better understand the challenges primary care practices … produce evidence about what works best in creating and sustaining infrastructure to help primary care practices … developed through these research initiatives aim for primary care transformation that enables primary care practices … Disseminating Evidence into Practice Latest evidence and tools that support practices in implementing … evidence-based practices to improve patient care.

78. EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/north-carolina.html
    March 01, 2021 - Many practices have shown significant improvements, regardless of which measures the practices chose … Prescribing for statins is up by 50 percent across participating practices. … as well as baseline practice member surveys from 86 percent of the final enrolled practices.  … All practices are now submitting at least two ABCS measures and more than 90 percent of practices have … Over 90 percent of practices have access to CVD risk stratification tools.

79. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/evaluation/capacity-infographic.pdf
    April 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Results: Increased Capacity for Quality Improvement in Small Primary Care Practices … One of the main goals of EvidenceNOW is increasing the capacity of primary care practices to implement … For example, practices with capacity for quality improvement are eager to learn from mistakes, create … Early results among EvidenceNOW practices show substantial increases in their capacity to implement new

80. Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/index.html
    February 01, 2024 - Which fall prevention practices do you want to use? 4. … Which fall prevention practices should you use?     3.2. … Checklist for best practices 4. … How do you put the new practices into operation?     4.4. … Checklist for implementing best practices 5.