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 22 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis learning guide explains how to improve electronic health record (EHR) data quality to stimulate practice quality improvement.
This resource describes sources for selecting primary care performance measures, the importance of determining the appropriate numerators and denominators, and how to find and use benchmark data for quality improvement (QI) work.
This short article describes four coping stages that organizations go through when metrics show poor performance: denial of the data accuracy, denial there is a problem, deny accountability for the problem, and acceptance of responsibility.
This one-page job description outlines the responsibilities of a Registry Coordinator. These duties include engaging primary care practice members in registry activities and overseeing data entry, validation, and use.
This 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.
These slides provide an overview of Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles, describe testing strategies for implementation, and demonstrate a PDSA cycle.
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 toolkit guides practice facilitators and primary care clinic staff in using health information technology to support quality improvement.
This toolkit helps clinics engage patients on multidisciplinary quality improvement (QI) teams. It includes tools on recruiting, onboarding, and partnering with patients, as well as tools on launching and supporting the improvement work.