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Research Initiatives
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 16 of 16 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis resource provides guidance for existing programs that seek to become financially sustainable.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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The 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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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
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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
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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
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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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This resources links primary care patients with obesity to local resources for better management of their obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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This resource links primary care patients to local resources to better manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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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
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This resource examines the relationship between health literacy and cultural competency. It discusses how clear communication and removing literacy-related obstacles that stem from racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences will improve care for all patients, regardless of their level of health literacy.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Resource
Publication Date: Ongoing
AHRQ’s tools improve health literacy by helping organizations become health literate: they ensure everyone is able to find, understand, and use health information and services.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
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Publication Date: Ongoing
