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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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21 to 30 of 35 Tools and Resources DisplayedBased on Lean structured problem-solving methods, this tool uses root cause analysis, diagramming process changes, and measuring implementation progress and effectiveness of changes to help primary care practices maximize efficiency and good outcomes.
This executive summary introduces the Model for Improvement and Lean. It addresses how to use measurement and data to drive improvement in primary care, optimize health information technology (IT), and spread and sustain change. It links to two implementation guides.
This primer includes short descriptions of the following continuous quality improvement (QI) approaches: Model for Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, and the Baldridge Quality Model.
This toolkit consists of 10 tools and templates—with instructions and examples—for primary care practices to use to improve quality. Tools include: cause and effect diagram, failure modes and effects analysis, histogram, Pareto chart, and scatter diagram.
These slides provide an overview of Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles, describe testing strategies for implementation, and demonstrate a PDSA cycle.
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 implementation guide provides information on how health care leaders can support organizational changes aimed at improving patient-centered care. The guide contains practical information, tips, and case studies.
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 includes information, tools, and links to additional information that medical assistants and others in primary care practices can use to implement improve tobacco cessation support for their patients.
This tool is designed to assess practice-level primary care structures and processes that are associated with better care and clinical outcomes. The structure and processes are related to eight domains ranging from reducing clinical risk factors and establishing care team processes and workflows to use of clinical information systems.