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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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51 to 71 of 71 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis toolkit has been developed for primary care practices to manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Toolkit
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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
Type: Resource
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This resource links primary care patients to local resources to better manage obesity.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Resource
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This paper describes the evidence we have so far on the effects of precursors to the medical home model on key outcomes, and how to improve studies in the future.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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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
Type: Resource
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap is a resource for future research and evaluation of effective clinical-community resource relationships. The Roadmap will be of use to funders, researchers, and program evaluators interested in primary care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Roadmap
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This lexicon for behavioral health and primary integration is a set of concepts and definitions developed by expert consensus for what we mean by behavioral health and primary care integration—a functional definition—what things look like in practice.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Lexicon
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas was developed to identify ways to further define, measure, and evaluate programs based on clinical-community relationships for the delivery of clinical preventive services. The CCRM Atlas uses a framework to examine the functioning and effectiveness of clinical-community relationships.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Atlas
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This toolkit helps examine the impact of health information technology (health IT) on both clinical and administrative workflow. Once implemented, health IT can provide information to help reorganize and improve workflow. This toolkit is designed for people and organizations interested or involved in the planning, design, implementation, and use of health IT in ambulatory care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Toolkit
Publication Date: Ongoing
This research examines the integration of health information technology (IT) into primary care. It includes a variety of electronic methods that are used to manage information about people's health and health care, for both individual patients and groups of patients. The use of health IT can improve the quality of care, even as it makes health care more cost effective.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Program (CAHPS) surveys assess patient experience with healthcare services delivered in primary care and various other settings and for specific conditions.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
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
State-specific healthcare quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
The AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research Program has funded the development of tools to assist in planning for, implementing, and evaluating digital healthcare resources.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
Integration Playbook is a Web-based, complete, and concise set of instructions on implementing integration of behavioral health and primary care.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Playbook
Publication Date: Ongoing
A comprehensive resource and guide for organizations that produce and disseminate reports to consumers on the quality of care provided by health care organizations (e.g., hospitals, health plans, medical groups, nursing homes) and individual physicians.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
This survey assesses both adult and pediatric patients' experiences with healthcare providers and staff in doctors' offices. Survey results can be used to improve care provided by individual providers, sites of care, medical groups, or provider networks and to equip consumers with information to choose providers.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Survey
Publication Date: Ongoing
The SHARE Approach is a five-step process for sharing medical decisions with patients that includes exploring and comparing the benefits, harms, and risks of each option through meaningful dialogue about what matters most to the patient.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Training
Publication Date: Ongoing
Prevention TaskForce is a free app for clinicians to search and browse U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on the Web, on a PDA, or on a mobile device, to bring recommendations, clinical considerations, and selected practice tools to the point of care.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Program
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
Type: Resource
Publication Date: Ongoing
The AHRQ Academy offers numerous tools and resources to help integrate behavioral health and primary care, including playbooks, measures, and lexicons.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Program
Publication Date: Ongoing
