Toolkits
Below are various PBRN toolkits. Select a toolkit for more information.
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Item last published on 05/01/12
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http://www.nchealthliteracy.org/toolkit
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is proud to announce the publication of the Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit. The toolkit is based on the principles of universal precautions, or specific actions that providers can take to make health information more understandable for all patients. It is designed to be used by all levels of staff in practices providing primary care for adults and/or pediatric patients.
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http://pcmh.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt/community/pcmh__home/1483/pcmh_implementing_the_pcmh___practice_facilitation_v2
A How-To Guide on Developing and Running a Practice Facilitation Program
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently sponsored the development of a how-to guide for organizations interested in starting a practice facilitation program aimed at improving primary care. The practice facilitation programs described in this guide are designed to work with primary care practices on quality improvement activities, with an emphasis on primary care redesign and transformation. The guide focuses on how to establish and run an effective practice facilitation program, and is intended for organizations or individuals who will develop, design, and administer such programs.
This guide was developed based on information and resources shared by more than 30 experts in the field of practice facilitation. AHRQ convened the expert working group through a series of webinars and conference calls over a nine month period in 2011. These experts provided practical knowledge and hard-won lessons from their experiences in practice facilitation, and shared resources that they developed or found useful.
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http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/informedconsent/
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed the Informed Consent and Authorization Toolkit for Minimal Risk Research to facilitate the process of obtaining informed consent and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization from potential research subjects. This toolkit contains information for people responsible for ensuring that potential research subjects are informed in a manner that is consistent with medical ethics and regulatory guidelines.
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http://www.ahrq.gov/populations/businessstrategies/
Improving care for the chronically ill is one of the most pressing health needs of our time. To help more safety net organizations implement the Chronic Care Model effectively and sustainably, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contracted with Group Health's MacColl Institute, RAND Health, and the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI) to develop a toolkit. The toolkit informs safety net providers on how to redesign their systems of care along the lines of the Chronic Care Model while attending to their financial realities.
The toolkit provides a step-by-step practical approach to guide primary care teams through quality improvement. The toolkit:
- Sequences and describes the specific practice changes involved in Chronic Care Model implementation.
- Integrates strategies designed to improve the business case for quality improvement.
- Links more than 60 commonly used quality improvement tools with the relevant changes.
- Includes examples from practices that have made quality improvement pay.
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http://patientsafety.org/page/109587/
This project improves the safety of care and care processes in outpatient settings through a partnership model involving patients, health care providers, and the community. The project implements a patient safety partnership council that includes both providers and patients and uses focus groups, interviews, and other tools to facilitate patient-centered care, including medication safety for elderly patients. The toolkit includes:
- A how-to guide for developing and implementing an outpatient patient-provider council.
- A how-to guide for improving medication list accuracy in the clinic setting
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http://dhsmedia.wi.gov/main/Viewer/?peid=e9152bf67a7b4460859a16c33db1ec48
Cindy Brach, AHRQ's lead for health literacy, gave a plenary presentation at the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit, "AHRQ Tools for Addressing Health Literacy." Darren DeWalt followed with a presentation on AHRQ's Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit.
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http://www.researchtoolkit.org/
An online collection of materials to facilitate multi-site collaborations for health research. These collaborations include community-based organizations, academic institutions, or health care delivery settings.
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http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov/snaps10/index.jsp
The State Snapshots provide State-specific health care quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State.
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http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/patientsafetyculture/mosurvindex.htm
In response to medical offices interested in a survey that focuses on patient safety culture in their offices, AHRQ sponsored the development of the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture. This survey is designed specifically for outpatient medical office providers and staff and asks for their opinions about the culture of patient safety and health care quality in their medical offices.
The survey was designed for medical offices with at least three providers (physicians, either M.D. or D.O.; physician assistants; nurse practitioners; and other providers licensed to diagnose medical problems, treat patients, and prescribe medications). Survey administration in solo practitioner or two-provider offices is not recommended because it would not be possible to maintain the confidential nature of individual responses. In small offices, rather than administering the survey, it can be used as a tool to initiate open dialog or discussion about patient safety and quality issues among providers and staff.
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http://www.ahrq.gov/populations/chroniccaremodel/
These materials enable implementation of the Chronic Care Model in academic health care settings. The tools and lessons learned from four organizations that participated in the Academic Chronic Care Collaborative are provided here for readers to adapt and replicate in teaching medical residents and improving care for patients with chronic illnesses.
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http://healthit.ahrq.gov/workflow
This toolkit assists small and medium sized practices in workflow analysis and redesign before, during, and after health IT implementation. The toolkit also includes tools to analyze workflow, examples of workflow analysis and redesign, and stories of other practices’ experiences with health IT and workflow.
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http://www.cms.gov/WrittenMaterialsToolkit
The Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective is a health literacy resource from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As shown below, this 11-part Toolkit provides a detailed and comprehensive set of tools to help you make written material in printed formats easier for people to read, understand, and use.
Item last published on 05/01/12
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