Assessing quality improvement capacity in primary care practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthy Hearts Northwest (H2N) is a study of external support strategies to build quality improvement (QI) capacity in primary care with a focus on cardiovascular risk factors: appropriate aspirin use, blood pressure control, and tobacco screening/cessation.

Methods

To guide practice facilitator support, experts in practice transformation identified seven domains of QI capacity and mapped items from a previously validated medical home assessment tool to them. A practice facilitator (PF) met with clinicians and staff in each practice to discuss each item on the Quality Improvement Capacity Assessment (QICA) resulting in a practice-level response to each item. We examined the association between the QICA total and sub-scale scores, practice characteristics, a measur

SUBMITTER: Parchman ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657073 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature