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This section includes tools and resources that AHRQ developed, 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 25 Tools and Resources DisplayedThe 3d edition of this toolkit offers evidence-based guidance to help healthcare providers make health information easier to understand and act on, make healthcare easier to navigate, and increase support for patients of all health literacy levels.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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The Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective is a health literacy resource from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It provides tools to help make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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This guide offers an approach to defining the needs of members with limited English proficiency and developing strategies to meet their
communication needs.
communication needs.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This guide offers health plans an approach to defining the needs of multi-ethnic members and developing culturally and linguistically appropriate services for them.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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AHRQ supports 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.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Survey
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This HHS-developed how-to guide helps create health Web sites and Web content for the millions of Americans with limited literacy skills and limited experience using the Web. It can be used by web designers, web content specialists, and other public health communication professionals.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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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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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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This crosswalk identifies tools from the AHRQ Health 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 AHRQ Health 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 toolkit can help primary care practices reduce the complexity of healthcare, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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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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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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This paper describes the evidence we have so far on the effects of precursors to the medical home model on key outcomes, and how to improve studies in the future.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This Supplement to the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas examines the function and effectiveness of clinical-community relationships.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Resource
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap is a resource for future research and evaluation of effective clinical-community resource relationships. The Roadmap will be of use to funders, researchers, and program evaluators interested in primary care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Roadmap
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas was developed to identify ways to further define, measure, and evaluate programs based on clinical-community relationships for the delivery of clinical preventive services. The CCRM Atlas uses a framework to examine the functioning and effectiveness of clinical-community relationships.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Atlas
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The SHARE Approach is a five-step process for sharing medical decisions with patients that includes exploring and comparing the benefits, harms, and risks of each option through meaningful dialogue about what matters most to the patient.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Training
Publication Date: Ongoing
AHRQ’s tools improve health literacy by helping organizations become health literate: they ensure everyone is able to find, understand, and use health information and services.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Resource
Publication Date: Ongoing
This resource examines the relationship between health literacy and cultural competency. It discusses how clear communication and removing literacy-related obstacles that stem from racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences will improve care for all patients, regardless of their level of health literacy.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Resource
Publication Date: Ongoing
