Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Medical Offices
In this Reform in Action brief, lessons from Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) demonstrate how providers can redesign care systems to produce high-quality, patient-centered care results.
Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Medical Offices
Quality improvement efforts can help clinicians improve care delivery and practice efficiency. RWJF is working to help doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals systemically improve the quality of care they deliver.
Providers nearly 3x as likely to adopt evidence-based guidelines when supported by practice coach
Five Facts About Ambulatory Quality Improvement
In our health care system, patients receive outpatient, or ambulatory, care at their primary
doctor’s office and clinics—and inpatient care at hospitals. As the health care system and Americans’ overall health has altered, the need to focus on improving the quality of care in these primary settings has become more urgent.
Five Things Primary Care Providers Can Do to Improve Quality
Patients receive outpatient, or ambulatory care at their primary doctor's office and clinics. As the health care system and Americans' overall health has altered, the need to focus on improving the quality of care in these primary settings has become more urgent.
AF4Q in Action
In communities nationwide, AF4Q alliances are developing interventions and pilot-testing techniques to improve the way ambulatory care is delivered.
Hear from RWJF
Susan Mende, Senior Program Officer, talks about what ambulatory care is, the quality challenge it faces, and how RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative is working with health care providers to improve it.
More "Reform in Action" Topics
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) shares lessons and resources from its efforts to elevate the quality of health care in 16 regions around the country in a series of Reform in Action suites:
