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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41 to 50 of 73 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis article outlines the important steps to develop dashboards for managers that are used to tracking an organization’s quality metrics.
These presentation slides describe four non-prescriptive motivational interviewing strategies that clinicians and primary care practice staff can use to help patients identify and resolve ambivalence in the daily health choices they make.
This handbook provides in-depth information and techniques to help primary care practices use electronic health records and other health IT for quality improvement efforts. The handbook covers the following topics: clinical decision support, patient portals and other technologies, using patient-generated data, clinical quality measures, and risk stratification in primary care. The handbook also features helpful tips, examples, and use cases to support the use of health IT for QI efforts.
The checklist is designed to be used in conjunction with the One Heart brochure to help patients focus their office visit on addressing risk factors for heart disease and the illustrated brochure explains how plaque buildup can silently lead to heart disease and suggests questions patients can ask and actions they can take to understand and reduce their risk of heart disease.
This resource introduces ways electronic health records (EHRs) can support quality improvement (QI) in primary care practices.
Standing orders allow patient care to be shared among non-clinician members of the care team. This overview explains how standing orders empower both clinical and non-clinical staff and provides examples of standing orders.
This resource is an example of a policies and procedures statement for a Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) for primary care practices and outpatient clinics.
A video story of Willie Morgan, a patient, who talks about the importance of working closely with his pharmacist to manage his chronic conditions. The Tennessee Heart Health Network disseminates patient stories in their newsletters to healthcare professionals and shares them with their Patient Advisory Councils to support patient engagement in quality improvement.
This resource provides clinicians with useful tools to: (1) assess the current physical activity levels of their patients; (2) emphasize with patients the value of long-term exercise and activity for improved health; (3) help patients find activity options that are safe, sustainable, and as enjoyable as possible; and (4) summarize exercise recommendations for heart health and maintaining weight loss.
In this podcast Dr. Jim Campbell, MD, who leads the Ohio Cardiovascular and Diabetes Health Collaborative, discusses the importance of involving patients in quality improvement projects. The podcast covers how practices can get started, ways to approach patients to participate, and strategies to keep them engaged.