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Research Initiatives
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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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Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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This project presents findings on how to configure and pay for the workforce that is needed to deliver fully comprehensive, high-quality care across the U.S. population.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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This toolkit provides information and resources to help physicians' offices, clinics, and other ambulatory care facilities assess and improve the laboratory testing process in their offices.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Toolkit
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This primary care transformation initiative redesigned its care teams and their workflows. Under this "Delegate Model," physicians assign tasks that they used to perform to trained care team medical assistants (CTMAs). The goal of delegation was to reduce the physicians' administrative burden, boost clinic capacity, and better support prevention and chronic disease management.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Resource
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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
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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 survey helps health care providers better understand the kind of organizational environment that supports positive patient experience, and provides strategies to improve the patient experience.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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 Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) Resource Center developed this document that provides resources and advice for conducting rapid-cycle research to identify problems that need to be solved, solutions that work in real world settings and study methods that can accelerate the research cycle.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Resource
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The Practice-based Research Network (PBRN) Resource Center developed this resource document to help PBRNs align their infrastructure and activities to support physicians in meeting MOC Part IV (quality/practice improvement) requirements. so they can engage in quality/practice improvement as a part of their commitment to patients.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Resource
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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 white paper describes factors that support the use of health information technology for quality improvement in primary care, discusses exemplary cases, and makes recommendations to support and increase the use of health IT to improve care delivery and population health outcomes.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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 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 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Program (CAHPS) surveys assess patient experience with healthcare services delivered in primary care and various other settings and for specific conditions.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
