National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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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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31 to 40 of 40 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis case study of a primary care practice provides insight into the clinic’s quality improvement project to improve blood pressure control. It highlights the steps in the quality improvement (QI) process, future measures, and lessons learned.
SBAR, which stand for Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation, is a technique to facilitate prompt and appropriate communication. This presentation describes the components of SBAR and gives examples of using SBAR in healthcare.
This document includes guidance and information (including CPT codes) that staff can use for Medicare reimbursement for the health coaching sessions that they provide for patients. Health coaches work with patients to follow up with treatment and self-care.
This resource offers a set of the latest evidence-based changes to improve delivery of clinical interventions for the treatment of tobacco use and dependence.
This toolkit guides practice facilitators and primary care clinic staff in using health information technology to support quality improvement.
This AHRQ health literacy toolkit contains 21 short tools to help primary care practices reduce the complexity of health care, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all health literacy levels.
This AHRQ resource explains how practices can use health information technology (IT) tools - such as electronic health records (EHRs), data registries, decision support, and health information exchange systems - to improve quality and patient outcomes.
This resource describes different types of team huddles in clinical practice and suggests strategies for successful implementation. Huddles are an effective tool to promote team communication through regular, brief, structured meetings.
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 one-page workflow chart and decision aid helps primary care practice staff collect and track data so clinicians can determine patients’ risk of cardiovascular events such as a heart attack or stroke.