Changes in Primary Care Quality Associated With Implementation of the Veterans Health Administration Preventive Health Inventory.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions in primary care delivery. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched the Preventive Health Inventory (PHI) program-a multicomponent care management intervention, including a clinical dashboard and templated electronic health record note-to support primary care in delivering chronic disease care and preventive care that had been delayed by the pandemic.

Objectives

To describe patient, clinician, and clinic correlates of PHI use in primary care clinics and to examine associations between PHI adoption and clinical quality measures.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study used VHA administrative data from February 1, 2021, through February 28, 2022, from a national cohort of 21

SUBMITTER: Wheat CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111181 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature