A community-wide quality improvement initiative to improve hypertension control and reduce disparities.

ABSTRACT: Initiatives to improve hypertension control within academic medical centers and closed health systems have been extensively studied, but large community-wide quality improvement (QI) initiatives have been both less common and less successful in the United States. The authors examined a community-wide QI initiative across 226 843 patients from 198 practices in nine counties across upstate New York to improve hypertension control and reduce disparities. The QI initiative focused on (a) providing population and practice-level comparative data, (b) community engagement, especially in underserved communities, and (c) practice-level quality improvement assistance, but was not designed to examine causality of specific components. Across the nine counties, hypertension control rates improved from

SUBMITTER: Fortuna RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8030610 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature