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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 12 of 12 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis resource provides guidance for existing programs that seek to become financially sustainable.
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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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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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
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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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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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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
This survey assesses both adult and pediatric patients' experiences with healthcare providers and staff in doctors' offices. Survey results can be used to improve care provided by individual providers, sites of care, medical groups, or provider networks and to equip consumers with information to choose providers.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Survey
Publication Date: Ongoing
A comprehensive resource and guide for organizations that produce and disseminate reports to consumers on the quality of care provided by health care organizations (e.g., hospitals, health plans, medical groups, nursing homes) and individual physicians.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
State-specific healthcare quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
