Advancing heart health in North Carolina primary care: the Heart Health NOW study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of Heart Health NOW (HHN) is to determine if primary care practice support-a comprehensive evidence-based quality improvement strategy involving practice facilitation, academic detailing, technology support, and regional learning collaboratives-accelerates widespread dissemination and implementation of evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in small- to medium-sized primary care practices and, additionally, increases practices' capacity to incorporate other evidence-based clinical guidelines in the future.

Methods/design

HHN is a stepped wedge, stratified, cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effect of primary care practice support on evidence-based CVD prevention, organizational change process measures, and patient

SUBMITTER: Weiner BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4650518 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature