Long-term Outcomes of a 1-year Hypertension Quality Improvement Initiative in a Large Health System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding whether practices retain outcomes attained during a quality improvement (QI) initiative can inform resource allocation.

Objective

We report blood pressure (BP) control and medication intensification in the 3 years after a 2016 QI initiative ended.

Research design

Retrospective cohort.

Subjects

Adults with a diagnosis of hypertension who had a primary care visit in a large-integrated health system between 2015 and 2019.

Measures

We report BP control (<140/90 mm Hg) at the last reading of each year. We used a multilevel regression to identify the adjusted propensity to receive medication intensification among patients with an elevated BP in the first half of the year. To examine variation, we identified the average predicted probab

SUBMITTER: Pfoh ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10011969 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature