National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
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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 9 of 9 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis report is from the April 14, 2023, roundtable on optimizing the health, functional status, and well-being of the U.S. population as it ages.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Report
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This resource provides guidance for existing programs that seek to become financially sustainable.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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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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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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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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