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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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76 to 100 of 114 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis 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 resource was developed in response to the need for measures for assessing or recognizing care coordination as it is carried out by primary care practices. The report lists care coordination measures selected systematically from AHRQ’s Care Coordination Measures Atlas (see above) that are well suited for use by health plans and insurers to assess the quality of care coordination in primary care practices and by primary care practices themselves to assess their own performance.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Report
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This report presents an assessment of the potential for measuring care coordination processes using data from electronic data sources, in particular from electronic health records, health information exchanges, and all-payer claims databases.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Report
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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 report lists care coordination measures selected systematically from AHRQ's Care Coordination Measures Atlas that are well suited for use by health plans and insurers to assess the quality of care coordination in primary care practices and by primary care practices themselves to assess their own performance.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Report
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This how-to guide helps organizations develop and run a primary care practice facilitation program focused on quality improvement activities.
Research Initiative: Practice Facilitation
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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The patient-centered medical home model currently offers or coordinates many of the services required for patients with complex needs. This decisionmaker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices better deliver services to all patients.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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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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This toolset provides ambulatory care practices resources to implement e-prescribing successfully.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Toolkit
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A concise description for decisionmakers of why and how to commission effective evaluations of medical home demonstrations.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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The workbook on helping audiences understand data provides key information, practical suggestions, and examples that can be applied to many public health issues.
Research Initiative: Health Literacy
Type: Workbook
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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 brief provides strategies on how decisionmakers can encourage the patient-centered medical home model of care.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This brief discusses the ways in which HITECH and broader health reform legislation could ensure that electronic health records are implemented in a way that supports primary care transformation.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
Type: Brief
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This 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
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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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This guide can help you determine if an innovation would be a good fit for your health care organization.It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies.
Research Initiative: Quality Improvement
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This Health IT Literacy Guide and checklist provide a structure, strategies, and other resources for the development of health IT technologies. Similarly, purchasers of health IT (e.g., heath plans, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and other non-profit organizations) that desire to make technologies available to limited-literacy adults, can use this guide and checklist to evaluate a health IT product.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
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This guide and checklist are intended for developers and purchasers of health information (IT) that is designed to be accessed and used by consumers including those with limited health literacy. The guide and checklist provide a structure, strategies, and other resources for the development of these technologies.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
Type: Handbook/Guidebook
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This revised 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.
Research Initiative: Care Coordination
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