Personalised physician learning intervention to improve hypertension and lipid control: randomised trial comparing two methods of physician profiling.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the impact of personalised physician learning (PPL) interventions using simulated learning cases on control of hypertension and dyslipidaemia in primary care settings.

Methods

A total of 132 primary care physicians, 4568 eligible patients with uncontrolled hypertension, and 15 392 eligible patients with uncontrolled dyslipidaemia were cluster-randomised to one of three conditions: (a) no intervention, (b) PPL-electronic medical record (EMR) intervention in which 12 PPL cases were assigned to each physician based on observed patterns of care in the EMR in the previous year, or (c) PPL-ASSESS intervention in which 12 PPL cases were assigned to each physician based on their performance on four standardised assessment cases. General and generalised linear mixed

SUBMITTER: O'Connor PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4557778 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature