Quality Improvement and Personalization for Statins: the QUIPS Quality Improvement Randomized Trial of Veterans' Primary Care Statin Use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation of new practice guidelines for statin use was very poor.

Objective

To test a multi-component quality improvement intervention to encourage use of new guidelines for statin use.

Design

Cluster-randomized, usual-care controlled trial.

Participants

The study population was primary care visits for patients who were recommended statins by the 2013 guidelines, but were not receiving them. We excluded patients who were over 75 years old, or had an ICD9 or ICD10 code for end-stage renal disease, muscle pain, pregnancy, or in vitro fertilization in the 2 years prior to the study visit.

Interventions

A novel quality improvement intervention consisting of a personalized decision support tool, an educational program, a performance measure,

SUBMITTER: B Sussman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258630 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature