Implementing practice facilitation in research: how facilitators spend their time guiding practices to improve blood pressure control.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Practice facilitators (PFs) coach practices through quality improvement (QI) initiatives aimed at enhancing patient outcomes and operational efficiencies. Practice facilitation is a dynamic intervention that, by design, is tailored to practices' unique needs and contexts. Little research has explored the amount of time PFs spend with practices on QI activities. This short report expands on previously published work that detailed a 12-month practice facilitation intervention as part of the Southeastern Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure Control (SEC) trial, which focused on improving hypertension control among people living in rural settings in the southeastern USA. This report analyzes data on the time PFs spent to guide 32 primary care practices in implementing QI

SUBMITTER: Sutton KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10388449 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature