Practice Facilitators/Quality Improvement Coaches

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

Paper that discusses the need for external quality improvement (QI) infrastructure to help primary care practices acquire the knowledge and develop the skills integral to carrying out ongoing QI work

Describes a model of primary care called the 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care, which describe existing high-performing practices and serve as a model for improvement

Outlines examples of clinical workflows and tasks that can help practices integrate behavioral health into primary care

Provides an overview of implementing SBIRT and integrating substance use treatment into primary care

A revised version of the integrated collaborative care protocol implemented during the SUMMIT research study; contains information on building processes and practices for ongoing intervention and stepped care, including materials and protocols for alcohol MAT and ongoing care

Outlines primary care principles and offers resources for practices related to each principle, such as coordinated and integrated care