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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 20 Tools and Resources DisplayedPractices 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.
Based on real-world experience, this manual guides primary care practices through the process of developing and implementing clinical decision support (CDS), from defining the project through implementation and sustaining improvements.
This resource introduces ways electronic health records (EHRs) can support quality improvement (QI) in primary care practices.
Primary care practice staff can fill out this one-page checklist before a patient visit to highlight essential information about that patient’s ABCS status and flag upcoming care needs in the electronic health record (EHRs).
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 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.
The Hypertension Control Change Package is composed of change concepts, change ideas, and evidence- or practice based-tools and resources.
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.