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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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26 to 50 of 71 Tools and Resources DisplayedThe AHRQ PBRN Resource Center has created a new resource document to facilitate the expansion of business relationships between PBRNs and outside organizations including accountable care organizations (ACOs), public health departments, and other health-related entities. In the ever-evolving health care landscape, these health-related entities are increasingly required to initiate, assess, and report quality improvement (QI) efforts. With their experience designing, executing, and evaluating QI activities, PBRNs are well positioned to provide their expertise to others via training or technical assistance. This document describes existing and anticipated QI synergies between PBRNs and ACOs and similar organizations.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
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AHRQ’s Primary Care Practice Facilitation Curriculum (PCPF) is designed to be used by practice facilitation programs in the training of new practice facilitators. Each of the 32 modules contains a Trainer’s Guide, and a list of readings and activities designed to develop basic knowledge and skills.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Training
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This report documents how workflow changed in six primary and specialty care medical offices after they implemented health IT systems.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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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 report highlights opportunities to improve the impact of health IT on care coordination activities in primary care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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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 report documents workflow impacts of applications that allow patients to share information with primary care providers electronically.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Report
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Core Functionality in Pediatric Electronic Health Records examines features needed in pediatric electronic health record systems to ensure quality care for children.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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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 issue brief highlights three key strategies to enhance existing or emerging CM programs.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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 Literature Review highlights a comprehensive set of competencies, practices, providers, and staff needed to integrate behavioral health into primary care and provide comprehensive care to improve patient outcomes.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Literature Review
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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 white paper describes approaches practice facilitators can take to engage primary care practices in ongoing quality improvement (QI) activities.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: White Paper
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This guide shows practice facilitators strategies on how to engage primary care practices in quality improvement.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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How a Practice Facilitator Can Support Your Practice educates primary care practices interested in getting started with quality improvement activities about the benefits of working with a practice facilitator (quality improvement coach).
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Resource
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This Guidebook identifies the key professional practices for behavioral health and primary care integration. The goal is to help other primary care sites integrate behavioral healthcare more effectively. Findings are organized into two categories: Organization-Level Professional Practices, and Interpersonal and Individual Professional Practices.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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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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Primary care practice facilitation training programs.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Case Study
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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 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 resource integrates primary care practices and community-based resources to better manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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