Â鶹´«Ã½

U.S. flag

SHARE:

FacebookTwitterEmail AHRQPrint

Search

Search by Keyword
 

Key Drivers

Change Strategies

Topics

EvidenceNOW: Tools and Resources

The Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care origanizations, provider, and others make care safer in all health care settings. AHRQ's evidence-based tools and resources are used by organizations nationwide to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care. Improving health care quality by increasing the capacity of small primary care practices to implement the best clinical evidence is our aim. These tools and resources can be searched by the key drivers and the change strategies of the EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram.

These practice change methods and tools are valid, but specific clinical guidelines are updated over time. Please consult the latest guidelines when applying these tools.

Key Driver 1: Seek Evidence
Key Driver 2: Implement QI
Key Driver 3: Optimize Health IT
Key Driver 4: Create Care Teams
Key Driver 5: Engage with Patients and Families
Key Driver 6: Nurture Leadership

Results

1 to 10 of 42 Tools and Resources Displayed
A Facilitator’s Primary Care Toolkit to Improve Heart Health
This toolkit introduces the ABCS of heart health and provides checklists, action plans, and other instructions to guide primary care practices to implement evidence-based guidelines, transform health care delivery, and improve patients’ heart health.
Aspirin Workflow: Ensuring Evidence-Based Care with Medical Assistants
This workflow shows how medical assistants can provide a check to ensure that evidence-based care is delivered by identifying patients with heart disease who, according to protocol, should have, but have not, been prescribed aspirin.
Building Effective Care Teams in Primary Care
This resource describes characteristics of high-functioning care teams and shares methods for helping teams improve their effectiveness. It details common challenges faced by primary care teams and how to solve them.
Building Rapport with Patients: OARS Communication Skills
This short tool describes OARS—a set of verbal and non-verbal communication skills that helps clinicians and educators in primary care practices to engage and build rapport with patients and assess their needs.
Clinical Story: Why the Patient is Key When Treating Chronic Conditions
Dr. Chris Jackson, internist, and University of TN College of Medicine faculty, explains why the patient is key when treating heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.
Clinicians' Pocket Guide for Motivational Interviewing
This is a resource to support clinicians' use of motivational interviewing (MI) when counseling patients.
Community Health Worker Position Description
Practices can use this job description to post a listing when seeking to hire a Community Health Worker.
Comprehensive Care Plan Template for Patients and Clinicians
This care planning worksheet helps primary care practices and their patients together develop a plan of action to manage hypertension, complete with an assessment of readiness to make changes and patient-set goals.
Creating Quality Improvement (QI) Teams and Plans in Primary Care
Part of an AHRQ curriculum used to train practice facilitators, this resource explains the fundamentals of building and working with quality improvement (QI) teams in primary care practices.
Dietary Guidance: Building a DASH Diet Plate
This "plate" is a visual aid that can be used by clinicians to counsel patients on the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet. An expanded list of foods (organized by food group) is provided on the second page of the handout.