Table of Contents — August 2019, 17 (Suppl 1)

Table of Contents — August 2019, 17 (Suppl 1)

AHRQ-Funded Research Highlighted in Supplement on Clinical Practice Transformation

Three articles by AHRQ grantees in a special supplement of the Annals of Family Medicine offer new insights into the potential of practice facilitation and other strategies to improve primary care. The research was conducted by participants in AHRQ’s EvidenceNowinitiative, which was launched in 2015 and uses practice facilitators and other quality improvement services to help improve the uptake of evidence at more than 1,500 small- and medium-sized primary care practices in 12 States. Efforts by practice facilitators focused on improving the delivery of services proven to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Articles in the supplement are:

• Clinician perspectives on the benefits of practice facilitation for small primary care practices
• The role of health extension in practice transformation and community health improvement: Lessons from 5 case studies
• A randomized trial of external practice support to improve cardiovascular risk factors in primary care

AHRQ grantees also authored an accompanying editorial, Facilitating practice transformation in frontline health care.