Longitudinal assessment of the association between implementation strategy use and the uptake of hepatitis C treatment: Year 2.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To increase the uptake of evidence-based treatments for hepatitis C (HCV), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established the Hepatitis Innovation Team (HIT) Collaborative. Teams of providers were tasked with choosing implementation strategies to improve HCV care. The aim of the current evaluation was to assess how site-level implementation strategies were associated with HCV treatment initiation and how the use of implementation strategies and their association with HCV treatment changed over time.

Methods

A key HCV provider at each VA site (N = 130) was asked in two consecutive fiscal years (FYs) to complete an online survey examining the use of 73 implementation strategies organized into nine clusters as described by the Expert Recommendations for Implemen

SUBMITTER: Rogal SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454775 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature