Aspirin Workflow: Ensuring Evidence-Based Care with Medical Assistants

Resource: Aspirin Workflow (PDF, 112 KB, 1 page)

This workflow shows how medical assistants can provide a check to ensure that evidence-based care is delivered, which supports Key Driver 4: Create and support high functioning teams to deliver high-quality evidence-based care. By establishing a workflow to identify patients with heart disease who are not receiving aspirin when it is indicated, this resource helps primary care practices achieve Key Driver 5: Engage with patients and families in evidence-based care and quality improvement.

Institution of origin: Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Permissions: Used with permission of Healthy Hearts Northwest.

Acknowledgements: Healthy Hearts Northwest, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality EvidenceNOW Initiative