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Our quality improvement products are uniquely designed to improve health outcomes in a variety of settings. Our professional staff carefully researches each product to assure that Primaris' quality standards are met. The product must be proven effective, practical and easy to implement before we offer it to our providers. And, products are constantly being added or revised to assure that you receive the most up-to-date tools. Please select a health care setting and condition from the menu below. 

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Medication Compliance Aids - Selection Criteria

Assists in appropriate selection of medication compliance aids, based on identified patient skills and/or deficits.

Medication Assessment Protocol

Publication #: MO-05-65-HH

A standardized approach to evaluating the patient's ability to administer medications.

Managing Your Medicines

Publication #: MO-05-66-HH

Patients can help their home care nurse or therapist understand the type of help that they might need by completing the form.

Care Planning Form

Publication #: MO-05-154-HH

A guide for care planning.

Beers Criteria

Publication #: MO-05-67-HH

2002 Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults: Independent of Diagnoses or Conditions

Pain Management: What all home health patients and families need to know

Publication #: MO-07-121-HH

This handout can help explain pain management to patients and their families.

Case Summary

Publication #: MO-03-100-HH

Regional Meeting-Nov. 2007

OASIS Changes for 2008

Order your copy of materials used at the Primaris November 2007 Regional Meeting.

Click the PDF to read the Table of Contents. Click "Add to Cart" to order your free copy.

Sources for Public Funding

Publication #: MO-06-28-SIOC

Lists major federal and state agency grant opportunities to assist in the search for funding.

Tips for Attaining Grants

Publication #: MO-06-30-SIOC

This document offers guidelines and tips for preparing, writing and tracking a grant proposal.

Health literacy tools for pharmacists

Pharmacists can use these four new health literacy tools from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as educational resources to improve their health literacy practices. Implementing these tools can help pharmacists communicate effectively to patients at all literacy levels.

Download here | (Editor's note: Link takes you to the AHRQ.)

How to B-SAFE while taking Coumadin / warfarin

Publication #: MO-12-02-DS

This tri-fold brochure (originally created by MPRO, the Medicare QIO of Michigan), this material instructs patients how to stay safe when prescribed Coumadin or warfarin.

Population of Focus Request Template

This presentation slide helps providers focus on high-risk patients in an ambulatory patient population, and to identify a sub-group to implement targeted clinical pharmacy interventions.

First Things First in Clinical Pharmacy Services

This handout -- part of the Department of Health's Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Change Package -- helps define the Clinical Pharmacy Services process.

Readiness Actions in Clinical Pharmacy Services

This handout -- part of the Department of Health's Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Change Package -- helps providers at the beginning stages of the change process.

Adverse Drug Event Triggers

Bring more focus to your record review process with this list of adverse drug event triggers. This resource was developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

Download here | Editor's note: Link takes you to the IHI ADE page. Registration with the IHI.org Web site is required to download IHI files.

AMI Care Checklist

Publication #: MO-04-01-AMI

Remember the ABC's of AMI

Publication #: MO-03-07-AMI

Addresses basic care for patients with AMI.

Improvement Strategies

Publication #: MO-03-02-AMI

Guideline Orders

Publication #: MO-03-04-AMI