National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
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EvidenceNOW: Tools and Resources
The Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care origanizations, provider, and others make care safer in all health care settings. AHRQ's evidence-based tools and resources are used by organizations nationwide to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care. Improving health care quality by increasing the capacity of small primary care practices to implement the best clinical evidence is our aim. These tools and resources can be searched by the key drivers and the change strategies of the EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram.
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11 to 16 of 16 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis summary by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation highlights the strong impact opinion leaders have on how much research evidence health care professionals use in clinical practice.
This resource introduces ways electronic health records (EHRs) can support quality improvement (QI) in primary care practices.
An overview and instructions of different process mapping templates such as flow charts, high-level flow charts, and block diagrams.
Not all recommendations and guidelines are equally useful. This resource provides a list of trusted sources of clinical evidence that primary care practices can use when scanning for new evidence to implement.
This resource explains how to accurately manipulate, display, and act on clinical performance data. It also describes how to prepare and present performance data in order to drive quality improvement (QI).
This issue brief provides a description of workflow analysis; explores the stages of workflow analysis, process mapping, and process redesign; and discusses the role of care teams in the workflow mapping process.