Increasing the feasibility, impact, and equity of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) with a practice tailored AWV intervention: A stepped wedge clinical trial protocol.

ABSTRACT: Older adults vastly underutilize evidence-based preventive health services and screenings that reduce illness, morbidity and mortality. The free-to-patient Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is an opportunity to enhance preventive healthcare use, but also is underused. To evaluate the effect of a practice-tailored intervention on the sustained use of Medicare AWVs and on guideline-recommended preventive services and racial/ethnic disparities in 3 types of practice settings. This is a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial. The intervention will be implemented at the practice level in 24 primary care practices across the country (8 community-based, 8 academic, and 8 serving medically underserved populations). Electronic health record data will be used to assess changes in AWV a

SUBMITTER: Tarn DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12333998 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature