Quality Improvement

Quality improvement (QI) is essential to achieving the triple aim of improving the health of the population, enhancing patient experiences and outcomes, and reducing the per capita cost of care, and to improving provider experience. AHRQ provides research, tools, and resources to improve quality of care across many settings.

Initiatives

• Primary Care Transformation: This AHRQ initiative describes the patient-centered medical home as a promising model to transform primary care organization and delivery.
• EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health: This program used practice facilitation to improve delivery of heart health services among primary care practices.
• EvidenceNOW: Building State Capacity: This program uses practice facilitation to help practices develop state-based infrastructure to improve primary care.
• EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use: This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices manage unhealthy alcohol use.
• EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence in Women: This program uses practice facilitation to help primary care practices manage urinary incontinence in women.

Highlighted Resources

• EvidenceNOW Tools for Change: Tools to help primary care practices and practice facilitators improve practice capacity for quality improvement and ability to implement the best evidence to improve care.