AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Functional Assessment Screening Patient Reported Information: FAST-PRI
This study evaluated the Functional Assessment Screening Tablets (FAST) tool that provides patients with self-management support and found that FAST prompted discussions about healthy behaviors between patients and providers.
Data Flow & Clinical Outcomes in a Perinatal Continuum of Care System
This project implemented and evaluated an ambulatory electronic health record integrated with an inpatient perinatal system and found that increased information availability enabled providers to identify problems and respond with more intensive care.
Facilitators and Barriers to Adoption of a Successful Urban Telemedicine Model
This project expanded the use of telemedicine for the management of acute childhood illness into schools, daycare facilities, and after-hours neighborhood settings, and evaluated facilitators and barriers to its implementation.
Automating Assessment of Obesity Care Quality
This project developed nine obesity care quality measures and developed and validated the use of an automated method using natural language processing to utilize the measures.
Online Counseling to Enable Lifestyle-Focused Obesity Treatment in Primary Care
This study looked at the use of health information technology to facilitate clinical lifestyle counseling on weight loss, with the goal of integrating lifestyle issues into routine preventive medicine.
Bringing High Performing Systems to Small Practices
This study assessed the effects of supportive electronic health record implementation, clinical decision support systems, and pay-for-quality programs on the performance of cardiovascular health clinical quality measures.
Technology for Optimizing Population Care in a Resource-Limited Environment
This project designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated a system for automated reminders for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening within the Massachusetts General Primary Care Practice Based Research Network.
A Risk Based Approach to Improving Management of Chronic Kidney Disease
This project implemented a program to improve the quality of chronic kidney disease care using disease registries and decision support tools within an advanced electronic health record.