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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 25 of 71 Tools and Resources DisplayedThe 3d edition of this toolkit offers evidence-based guidance to help healthcare providers make health information easier to understand and act on, make healthcare easier to navigate, and increase support for patients of all health literacy levels.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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This 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
Type: Resource
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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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This 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
Type: Resource
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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
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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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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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ePROs in Clinical Care Toolkit helps healthcare systems develop and apply electronic patient-reported outcomes to improve patient care.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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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
Type: Resource
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This guide offers health plans an approach to defining the needs of multi-ethnic members and developing culturally and linguistically appropriate services for them.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This guide offers an approach to defining the needs of members with limited English proficiency and developing strategies to meet their
communication needs.
communication needs.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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The EvidenceNOW key driver diagram shows what practices need to do to achieve the aim of successfully translating evidence into improved care. Learn about the six key drivers—big changes that practices make to keep pace with changing evidence—and their associated change strategies—specific actions that support the achievement of that key driver.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
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The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit is a resource to help clinicians and clinical informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the CAP clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Toolkit
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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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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
Type: Resource
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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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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 Care Coordination Quality Measure for Primary Care (CCQM-PC) is a survey of adult patients’ experiences with care coordination in primary care settings.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Survey
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This HHS-developed how-to guide helps create health Web sites and Web content for the millions of Americans with limited literacy skills and limited experience using the Web. It can be used by web designers, web content specialists, and other public health communication professionals.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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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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This paper offers a conceptual model and specific strategies to help primary care practices successfully transition to patient-centered team-based care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This guide informs developers of feedback reports about evidence-based strategies to consider when developing or refining a feedback reporting system. This guide is appropriate for many audiences, including medical groups, health plans, payers, professional societies, regional quality improvement collaboratives, and dissemination and implementation campaigns.
Research Initiative: Disseminating Evidence
Type: Publication
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This guide, lists the key steps for analyzing the costs of a primary care transformation effort.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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