AHRQ Views Blog Post: New Evidence-Based Tools for Improving Primary Care

Tools for Change, a new online resource that offers more than 100 tools and resources to help primary care practices provide evidence-based patient care, is the subject of a new blog post by AHRQ senior health care researcher Cindy Brach, M.P.P., and health scientist Janice Genevro, Ph.D. Tools for Change is an outgrowth of EvidenceNOW, an initiative launched in 2015 to put heart health evidence into practice in more than 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices nationwide. The blog presents the EvidenceNOW Key Driver Diagram, which describes the six big changes that practices need to make to increase their capacity to use evidence. Noting that it is not enough to know what needs to change, the blog points to the collection of curated tools where practices and practice facilitators can learn how to make the changes. Access the blog post.