National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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Tools and Resources
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 15 of 15 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis guide helps users customize an easy-to-use "pill card" to keep track of medicine schedules, using step-by-step instructions, sample clip art, and suggestions for design and use.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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This 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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This guide presents practical steps for designing an evaluation of a primary care intervention from planning to implementation,
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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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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This Quick-Start Guide describes the dissemination, planning, and implementation process for practice-based research networks.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This resource integrates primary care practices and community-based resources to better manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Resource
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This toolkit has been developed for primary care practices to manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Toolkit
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This resources links primary care patients with obesity to local resources for better management of their obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Resource
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This resource links primary care patients to local resources to better manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Resource
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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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This lexicon for behavioral health and primary integration is a set of concepts and definitions developed by expert consensus for what we mean by behavioral health and primary care integration—a functional definition—what things look like in practice.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Lexicon
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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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