What AHRQ Learned While Working to Transform Primary Care

EvidenceNOW grantees and technical assistance contractor.

AHRQ = Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; ESCALATES = Evaluating System Change to Advance Learning and Take Evidence to Scale; NYC = New York City; TAC = Technical Assistance Center.

Note: AHRQ awarded grants to 7 regional cooperatives as part of the original EvidenceNOW initiative. Each cooperative successfully recruited and engaged 200-250 small and medium-sized primary care practices and provided quality improvement support services (see Figure 2). AHRQ also awarded a grant to support the national evaluation of EvidenceNOW, known as Evaluating System Change to Advance Learning and Take Evidence to Scale (ESCALATES), and established an EvidenceNOW Technical Assistance Center to support the implementation and evaluation grantees.

Sources: https://www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/index.html and https://www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/national.html