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This section includes tools and resources that AHRQ developed, in collaboration with experts in primary care, to advance primary care research and improve the quality and safety of primary care. These tools and resources help researchers and evaluators to design and evaluate primary care research, decision makers to implement practices for primary care transformation, and clinicians to enhance the delivery of primary care by improving care teams, care processes, and achieving best practices.
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1 to 13 of 13 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis paper offers a conceptual model and specific strategies to help primary care practices successfully transition to patient-centered team-based care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This white paper describes approaches practice facilitators can take to engage primary care practices in ongoing quality improvement (QI) activities.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: White Paper
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This white paper is written for practice facilitators and the organizations that train and deploy them for the challenging task of encouraging primary care practices to undertake QI activities.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This white paper describes factors that support the use of health information technology for quality improvement in primary care, discusses exemplary cases, and makes recommendations to support and increase the use of health IT to improve care delivery and population health outcomes.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: White Paper
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This paper describes the evidence we have so far on the effects of precursors to the medical home model on key outcomes, and how to improve studies in the future.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This paper examines the roles of the practice facilitator and care manager in redesigning and improving care delivery.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This paper discusses strategies that are needed to help primary care practices perform as effective medical homes to coordinate services for patients with complex care needs.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This paper systematically reviews the early evidence on effectiveness of the medical home to improve quality and experience of care and lower costs.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This paper describes how to build the evidence base for the medical home.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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"Neighbors" in the medical neighborhood include the medical home, specialists, hospitals, health plans, and other stakeholders. This paper describes how these neighbors could work together better, thus allowing the medical home to reach its full potential to improve patient outcomes.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This paper offers policymakers and researchers insights into opportunities to engage patients and families in the medical home and includes a framework for conceptualizing opportunities for engagement.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: White Paper
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This brief discusses the ways in which HITECH and broader health reform legislation could ensure electronic health records are implemented in a way that supports primary care transformation.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: White Paper
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This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care and medical home settings.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
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