The Ability of Practices to Report Clinical Quality Measures: More Evidence of the Size Paradox?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess whether primary care practices with and without support from a larger organization differ in their ability to produce timely reports on cardiovascular disease quality measures.

Background

Although many primary care practices are now part of larger organizations, it is not clear whether such a shift will improve the ability of those who work in these primary care settings to easily access and use their own data for improvement.

Methods

Smaller primary care practices were enrolled in a trial of external practice support to build quality improvement (QI) capacity. A request for clinical quality measure (eCQM) data were sent to each practice and study outcomes were defined based on the date on which practices first submitted valid data for at least 1 of

SUBMITTER: Parchman ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453756 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature