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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11 to 20 of 55 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis resource shows how to design reports for quality improvement (QI) purposes, including different types of reports and different ways of generating them from electronic health records (EHRs). It includes checklists for finding data errors.
This one-page tip sheet explains how to find, train and support staff from all parts of the practice to be champions for implementing evidence. It also defines the skills and roles of effective champions.
This form provides a worksheet and guidance for quality improvement teams to break their data quality improvement plan into smaller, shorter term goals using SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) goals.
This resource offers best practices on presenting health care quality data graphically for performance dashboards. It includes a checklist to ensure that data are clear and visually pleasing, reviews various chart types, and provides examples of dashboards.
This worksheet can be used by practice facilitators and health IT advisors to assess which data is being accurately and regularly recorded in discrete sections of the EHR.
Practices can use this clinical flowchart to implement the 5As [ask, advise, assess, assist, arrange for follow-up] to help patients quit smoking, based on their readiness to quit.
This recorded webinar provides an overview of huddles and details the process for implementing huddles in primary care practices. The video includes concrete examples of how and when to use huddles and why they are beneficial.
These dashboards show how one organization tracks progress in integrating Patient and Family Advisors and providing patient- and family-centered care.
This white paper presents three interdependent dimensions of high-impact leadership in health care: New Mental Models, High-Impact Leadership Behaviors, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) High-Impact Leadership Framework.
This resource explains how to create and maintain standardized, up-to-date patient problem lists in electronic health records (EHRs) in order to improve practices’ ability to generate accurate quality improvement data.