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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 24 of 24 Tools and Resources DisplayedSelf-management support is the help given to people with chronic conditions that enables them to manage their health on a day-to-day basis. This resource includes a library of resources to help clinicians learn more about self-management support.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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This tool features a method to assess both desirable and undesirable characteristics of printed and audiovisual patient education materials to evaluate and compare their understandability and actionability.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Toolkit
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This Supplement to the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas examines the function and effectiveness of clinical-community relationships.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Resource
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A how-to health assessment guide for primary care clinicians and staff.
Research Initiative: Care Management
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Evaluation Roadmap is a resource for future research and evaluation of effective clinical-community resource relationships. The Roadmap will be of use to funders, researchers, and program evaluators interested in primary care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Roadmap
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This brief focuses on the importance of considering and reporting contextual factors in studies of patient-centered medical home models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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External supports for primary care quality improvement.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Fact Sheets
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The Integrated Behavioral Health Care Quality Measures Atlas aims to support the field of integrated behavioral health care measurement by:
presenting a framework for understanding measurement of integrated care; providing a list of existing measures relevant to integrated behavioral health care and organizing the measures by the framework and by user goals.
presenting a framework for understanding measurement of integrated care; providing a list of existing measures relevant to integrated behavioral health care and organizing the measures by the framework and by user goals.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Atlas
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This revised pediatric short-form Medical Home Index describes and quantifies activities related to the organization and delivery of processes of care and behaviors indicative of the medical home for children and youth.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Resource
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This lexicon for behavioral health and primary integration is a set of concepts and definitions developed by expert consensus for what we mean by behavioral health and primary care integration—a functional definition—what things look like in practice.
Research Initiative: Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorders
Type: Lexicon
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This brief focuses on using pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) to evaluate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief focuses on using statistical process control in studies of the patient-centered medical home for possible use in monitoring and evaluation of the patient-centered medical home.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief focuses on using logic models to evaluate patient-centered medical home models. A logic model is a graphic illustration of how a program of intervention is expected to produce desired outcomes.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief focuses on using mixed methods to evaluate patient-centered medical home. These methods mix quantitative and qualitative data to improve our understanding of implementation and impact findings.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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This brief focuses on using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to evaluate patient-centered medical home models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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This brief describes how formative evaluations of the patient-centered medical home provide ongoing, concrete feedback to implementers and other stakeholders on whether a model is being delivered as planned or is having the intended effects, so staff can modify the intervention as it unfolds.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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This brief describes efficient orthogonal design as a tool that can be used to compare the effectiveness of different ways of deploying each component of the patient-centered medical home, and how the effects of individual components interact with one another.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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This brief focuses on using cognitive task analysis to evaluate patient-centered medical home models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief focuses on using anthropological approaches to evaluate patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief focuses on using implementation research methods in studies of patient-centered medical home models.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This overview of the patient-centered medical home introduces methods or approaches that have the potential to expand and refine understanding of the patient-centered medical home as a complex health care intervention and innovation.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Resource
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The Clinical-Community Relationships Measures (CCRM) Atlas was developed to identify ways to further define, measure, and evaluate programs based on clinical-community relationships for the delivery of clinical preventive services. The CCRM Atlas uses a framework to examine the functioning and effectiveness of clinical-community relationships.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Atlas
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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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