Preventive Evidence into Practice: what factors matter in a facilitation intervention to prevent vascular disease in family practice?

ABSTRACT:

Background

A perennial challenge of primary care quality improvement is to establish why interventions work in some circumstances, but not others. This study aimed to identify factors explaining variations in the impact on clinical practice of a facilitation led vascular health intervention in Australian family practice.

Methods

Our mixed methods study was embedded within a cluster randomised controlled trial of a facilitation intervention designed to increase the uptake of evidence-based prevention of vascular disease in family practices. The study was set in four Australian states using eight of the study's 16 intervention practices. Facilitators worked with intervention practices to develop and implement improvements in preventive care informed by a vascular risk factor a

SUBMITTER: Russell G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688202 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature