Primary Care

Describes the benefits of practice coaching;provides guidance for health system leaders, insurers, and Federal and State policymakers on how best to tailor these programs for primary care settings

Includes tools for practice facilitators on topics such as ways to engage practices, quality improvement work, and administrative tools

Describes how to develop a practice facilitation program within primary care settings

Explains the Model for Improvement, a tool designed to help organizations accelerate improvement through two parts: 3 fundamental questions and the PDSA cycle

Describes a model of practice change using data from a successful quality improvement intervention

Model for translating research into practice using concepts from the areas of quality improvement, chronic care, diffusion of innovations, and measures of the population-based effectiveness of translation

Tool to help practices understand where they are in terms of being patient centered and identify opportunities to improve and track progress when making changes

Article that describes a conceptual framework for guiding and studying practice improvement to help make care transformations; may also be helpful for testing interventions and recruiting medical practices for quality improvement

Describes the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model for creating and evaluating primary care teams, based on findings from qualitative data

Describes development of a comprehensive checklist of determinants of practice, or factors that enable or prevent practice improvements; also includes worksheets to facilitate use of the checklist in quality improvement projects