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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/pclandscape.html
September 01, 2021 - Navigating the Primary Care Landscape through EvidenceNOW
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health was a multi-layered initiative operating in a complex primary care environment. Teams of practice facilitators and quality improvement specialists provided practice improvement support to primary care practices partici…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/goals.html
September 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW Goals and Objectives
AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health initiative was a multi-State quality improvement initiative that engaged 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices to enhance their ability to implement evidence-based care for their patients. This video highlights the purpos…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/videos/evaluation.html
August 01, 2022 - EvidenceNOW Evaluation and Results
This video explains the evaluation components of AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health initiative, summarizing early findings about primary care practices’ delivery of evidence-based heart health care and their capacity to conduct quality improvement as a result of partic…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/administration.html
March 01, 2021 - Research Administration
Research involves not only design, data collection, and analysis, but also addressing the administrative aspects of research. For the EvidenceNOW initiative, the key administrative aspects that were particularly challenging included recruiting and then retaining practices in the study. …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/quality-improvement-initiatives-toolkit.html
January 01, 2021 - Back to MUI Resources
Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Practices in Quality Improvement Initiatives: A Toolkit
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Available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 832 KB)
Summary
Effectively engaging practices in a primary care quality improvement (QI) initiative, including…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/rural-family-obesity-trial.html
September 01, 2020 - Back to MUI Resources
Rural Family Medicine Clinicians' Motivations to Participate in a Pragmatic Obesity Trial
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Full Article
Summary
The purpose of this article is to understand the motivations of rural-practicing primary care clinicians who participate in an intensi…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/healthy-hearts-recruitment-letter.html
January 01, 2019 - Back to MUI Resources
Healthy Hearts Northwest Practice Recruitment Letter
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Available on the AHRQ website
Summary
This resource is an example of a recruitment flyer that describes the research project, the benefits of practice participation, and a form that practices …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/clinical-decision-support-tools.html
January 01, 2023 - Back to MUI Resources
Clinical Decision Support Tools
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This document is available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Summary
This best practice advisory is based on a practice-based intervention to improve care for a diverse population of women with urinary incontinenc…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/recruiting-ambulatory-oncology-practices.html
April 01, 2020 - Back to MUI Resources
Facilitators and Barriers to Recruiting Ambulatory Oncology Practices Into a Large Multisite Study: Mixed Methods Study
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Full article on PubMed
Summary
Practice-based research is essential to generate the data necessary to understand outcomes in …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/north-carolina.html
March 01, 2021 - EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative
EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to transform health care delivery by building a critical infrastructure to help smaller primary care practices improve the heart health of their …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/healthy-hearts-nyc-flyer.html
August 01, 2018 - Back to MUI Resources
Healthy Hearts NYC Recruitment Flyer
Resource
Available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 194 KB)
Summary
This practice recruitment flyer from the EvidenceNow Healthy Hearts NYC project is an example of how to present a research study in recruitment materials, i…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/healthy-hearts-nyc-memo.html
August 01, 2015 - Back to MUI Resources
Healthy Hearts NYC Recruitment Memo for Integrated Health Systems
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Available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 192 KB)
Summary
This resource is an example of a recruitment memo for integrated health care systems, which outlines eligibility requirements, …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/voices-left-dial-reflections.html
July 01, 2010 - Back to MUI Resources
Voices from the Left of the Dial: Reflections of Practice-Based Researchers
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Full article on PubMed
Summary
This study assessed factors motivating PBRN clinicians to participate and stay involved in practice-based research in their primary care o…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/barriers-facilitators-recruitment-physicians.html
December 01, 2010 - Back to MUI Resources
Barriers and Facilitators to Recruitment of Physicians and Practices for Primary Care Health Services Research at One Centre
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Full Article on PubMed
Summary
While some research has been conducted examining recruitment methods to engage physicians…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/our-time-heart-health.html
January 01, 2019 - Back to MUI Resources
This Is Our Time! Are you Ready? Heart Health Now! Recruitment Brochure
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Document available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 882 KB)
Summary
This document provides an example of an EvidenceNOW Cooperative's recruitment brochure. This brochure outlines p…
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/recruiting-physician-patient-dyads.html
November 01, 2014 - Back to MUI Resources
A Systematic Process for Recruiting Physician-Patient Dyads in Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs)
Resource
Full Article on PubMed.
Summary
Recruiting physicians and patients for primary care research is difficult, and low participation can greatly …
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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/urinary/resources/recruitment-process-flow-diagram.html
June 01, 2015 - Back to MUI Resources
Recruitment Process Flow Diagram
Resource
Available on the AHRQ website (PDF, 129 KB)
Summary
This diagram displays the recruitment process flow for the EvidenceNOW Healthy Hearts Northwest project, from practice completion of interest forms to initial s…
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/cmsqualconf0615.html
March 01, 2019 - program context: leadership changes, budget/spending/hiring constraints
Previous work: what these projects … are building on
Related, ongoing projects: many interactions with other efforts
What states are … Quality measures: reporting “up” to CMS is very different from reporting “down” to practices
HIT projects … (August 2012)
What are the characteristics of practices participating in medical home projects, and … Page
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National Evaluation Timeline
Year 1 (Aug 2010–Jul 2011)
Learn about state projects
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/final-report/section2.html
October 01, 2015 - Obstacles to Impact Analysis of Category C Projects
A final report of modest length must … Projects that aimed to develop focused health IT applications were successfully implemented. … EHR vendors were reluctant to engage in the demonstration projects, especially because the U.S. … During the demonstration, States implemented projects that included multiple elements. … For example, some State projects aimed to support PCMH transformation, and these projects typically included
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www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/appendix-b.html
June 01, 2020 - Even though these projects may not directly examine either an input or output of health services, they … health service delivery (with the exception of out-of-scope projects—see table entry on “Non-HSR/PCR … All evidence review and synthesis projects will be counted as research projects. … All evidence review and synthesis projects will be counted as research projects. … This only includes projects that design or modify a HIT application or tool in some way.