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This section includes tools and resources that ´óÏóÊÓƵdeveloped, in collaboration with experts in primary care, to advance primary care research and improve the quality and safety of primary care. These tools and resources help researchers and evaluators to design and evaluate primary care research, decision makers to implement practices for primary care transformation, and clinicians to enhance the delivery of primary care by improving care teams, care processes, and achieving best practices.
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1 to 25 of 30 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis handbook provides in-depth information and techniques to help primary care practices use electronic health records and other health IT for quality improvement efforts. It features helpful tips, examples, and use cases to support the use of health IT for QI efforts.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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These free, interactive training modules introduce some of the basic skills that practice facilitators need. They give new facilitators a solid foundation and give experienced facilitators a refresher on specific people and technical skills.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Training
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The CDS Connect Project is a program of grants and contracts aimed at helping healthcare providers move patient-centered outcomes research evidence into practice through clinical decisionmaking.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Program
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ePROs in Clinical Care Toolkit helps healthcare systems develop and apply electronic patient-reported outcomes to improve patient care.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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The EvidenceNOW key driver diagram shows what practices need to do to achieve the aim of successfully translating evidence into improved care. Learn about the six key drivers—big changes that practices make to keep pace with changing evidence—and their associated change strategies—specific actions that support the achievement of that key driver.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit is a resource to help clinicians and clinical informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the CAP clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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´óÏóÊÓƵsupports improvements in care delivery through the development and dissemination of evidence-based tools and resources designed specifically to address challenges and opportunities in primary care settings.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Resource
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This practice coaching manual aims to help effectively and efficiently improve clinical quality in an ambulatory setting by providing an overview of practice coaching and how various settings have used it to improve care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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The toolkit informs safety net providers on how to redesign their systems of care along the lines of the Chronic Care Model while attending to their financial realities.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Toolkit
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The Care Coordination Quality Measure for Primary Care (CCQM-PC) is a survey of adult patients’ experiences with care coordination in primary care settings.Â
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Survey
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This paper offers a conceptual model and specific strategies to help primary care practices successfully transition to patient-centered team-based care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This guide, lists the key steps for analyzing the costs of a primary care transformation effort.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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The ´óÏóÊÓƵPBRN Resource Center has created a new resource document to facilitate the expansion of business relationships between PBRNs and outside organizations including accountable care organizations (ACOs), public health departments, and other health-related entities. In the ever-evolving health care landscape, these health-related entities are increasingly required to initiate, assess, and report quality improvement (QI) efforts. With their experience designing, executing, and evaluating QI activities, PBRNs are well positioned to provide their expertise to others via training or technical assistance. This document describes existing and anticipated QI synergies between PBRNs and ACOs and similar organizations.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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AHRQ’s Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum (PCPF) is designed to be used by practice facilitation programs in the training of new practice facilitators. Each of the 32 modules contains a Trainer’s Guide, and a list of readings and activities designed to develop basic knowledge and skills.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Training
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Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records examines features needed in pediatric electronic health record systems to ensure quality care for children.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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This issue brief highlights key strategies to enhance existing or emerging care management programs and summarizes recommendations for decisionmakers in practice and policy, as well as for future research.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This white paper is written for practice facilitators and the organizations that train and deploy them for the challenging task of encouraging primary care practices to undertake QI activities.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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How a Practice Facilitator Can Support Your Practice educates primary care practices interested in getting started with quality improvement activities about the benefits of working with a practice facilitator (quality improvement coach).
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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This guide shows practice facilitators strategies on how to engage primary care practices in quality improvement.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
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This white paper describes approaches practice facilitators can take to engage primary care practices in ongoing quality improvement (QI) activities.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: White Paper
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This crosswalk identifies tools from the ´óÏóÊÓƵHealth Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit that can be used to meet specific NCQA, The Joint Commission, and URAC PCMH standards.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Toolkit
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"Implementing the ´óÏóÊÓƵHealth Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: Practical Ideas for Primary Care Practices" is must-read for health literacy team leaders, practice facilitators, and quality improvement leaders. Based on the experience of diverse primary care practices, the guide supplements the toolkit by providing lessons learned in the course of implementing health literacy tools.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This guide presents practical steps for designing an evaluation of a primary care intervention from planning to implementation,
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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Primary care practice facilitation training programs.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Case Study
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This update of the 2011 Care Coordination Measures Atlas presents many new measures emphasizing primary care. Twenty-six new EHR-based measures are identified that can help professionals meet Medicaid and Medicare EHR Incentive Programs criteria.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Atlas
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