National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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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 9 of 9 Tools and Resources DisplayedThis 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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