Does Ownership Make a Difference in Primary Care Practice?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We assessed differences in structural characteristics, quality improvement processes, and cardiovascular preventive care by ownership type among 989 small to medium primary care practices.

Methods

This cross-sectional analysis used electronic health record and survey data collected between September 2015 and April 2017 as part of an evaluation of the EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care Initiative by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. We compared physician-owned practices, health system or medical group practices, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) by using 15 survey-based practice characteristic measures, 9 survey-based quality improvement process measures, and 4 electronic health record-based cardiovascular disease prevention

SUBMITTER: Lindner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566859 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature