Exemplary Practices in Cardiovascular Care: Results on Clinical Quality Measures from the EvidenceNOW Southwest Cooperative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying characteristics of primary care practices that perform well on cardiovascular clinical quality measures (CQMs) may point to important practice improvement strategies.

Objective

To identify practice characteristics associated with high performance on four cardiovascular disease CQMs.

Design

Longitudinal cohort study among 211 primary care practices in Colorado and New Mexico. Quarterly CQM reports were obtained from 178 (84.4%) practices. There was 100% response rate for baseline practice characteristics and implementation tracking surveys. Follow-up implementation tracking surveys were completed for 80.6% of practices.

Participants

Adult patients, staff, and clinicians in family medicine, general internal medicine, and mixed-specialty pra

SUBMITTER: Fernald DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661662 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature