Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

How Do PEAs Work with Practices?

• Conventional methods include:
  • medical records review, feedback, benchmarking, and academic detailing
• Practice facilitation techniques include:
  • observation and characterization of practices and their readiness to change, coordination of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) quality improvement cycles within the practices, identification of effective strategies and exemplar practices, "cross-pollination" of good ideas and solutions between practices, and implementation of health information technology