National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Latest available findings on quality of and access to health care
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Research Initiatives
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.
Results
1 to 9 of 9 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis report is from the April 14, 2023, roundtable on optimizing the health, functional status, and well-being of the U.S. population as it ages.
Research Initiative: Care Management
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This report documents how workflow changed in six primary and specialty care medical offices after they implemented health IT systems.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
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This report highlights opportunities to improve the impact of health IT on care coordination activities in primary care.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
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This report documents workflow impacts of applications that allow patients to share information with primary care providers electronically.
Research Initiative: Health IT and Digital Health
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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