Email UpdatesEvidenceNOW Tools for Change for Practice Facilitators
Includes tools for practice facilitators on topics such as ways to engage practices, quality improvement work, and administrative tools
Organizational Leadership
Developing and Running a Primary Care Practice Facilitation Program: A How-To Guide
Describes how to develop a practice facilitation program within primary care settings
How to Improve: Model for Improvement
Explains the Model for Improvement, a tool designed to help organizations accelerate improvement through two parts: 3 fundamental questions and the PDSA cycle
A Practice Change Model For Quality Improvement In Primary Care Practice
Describes a model of practice change using data from a successful quality improvement intervention
A Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) for Integrating Research Findings Into Practice
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
Patient-Centered Medical Home Assessment (PCMH-A)
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
Improving Medical Practice: A Conceptual Framework
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
A Human Factors Systems Approach to Understanding Team-Based Primary Care: A Qualitative Analysis
Describes the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model for creating and evaluating primary care teams, based on findings from qualitative data
A Checklist for Identifying Determinants of Practice: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Frameworks and Taxonomies of Factors That Prevent or Enable Improvements in Healthcare Professional Practice
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
Building Quality Improvement Capacity In Primary Care
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