Background More than 100 million individuals in the USA have been diagnosed with a
chronic disease, yet chronic disease care has remained fragmented and of inconsistent …

Strategies for successfully updating and improving health care organizations of all kinds
Health care is always evolving and improving. However, the rapid speed of medical …

Background Integrating mental health services into primary care settings is complex and
challenging. Although facilitation strategies have successfully supported implementation of …

PURPOSE Guideline implementation in primary care has proven difficult. Although external
assistance through performance feedback, academic detailing, practice facilitation (PF), and …

Background: Facilitation is an effective approach for helping practices implement
sustainable evidence-based practice improvements. Few studies examine the facilitation …

PURPOSE Practice facilitation is a promising approach to helping practices implement
quality improvements. Our purpose was to describe practice facilitators' and practice leaders' …

Implementing interprofessional collaborative practices in primary care is challenging, and
research about its facilitating factors remains scarce. The goal of this participatory action …

Background Central to the patient-centered medical home model are high functioning
interdisciplinary teams, which aim to improve care coordination and patient self …

PURPOSE The methods and costs to enroll small primary care practices in large, regional
quality improvement initiatives are unknown. We describe the recruitment approach, cost …

Worldwide, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), directly or indirectly, causes more than 2.4
million deaths annually with symptoms generally presenting late in the disease course …