National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
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Tools and Resources
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 6 of 6 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis report describes how the medical home and accountable care models of care delivery can work in tandem to increase the effectiveness of care coordination.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Report
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This report describes practice-based population health, an approach to care that uses information on a group of patients within a primary care practice(s) to improve the care and clinical outcomes of patients within that practice.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Report
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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
Type: White Paper
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The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition, can 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.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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