Successful Trial of Practice Facilitation for Plan, Do, Study, Act Quality Improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Practice facilitation (PF) is a promising but relatively new intervention supporting data-driven practice change. There is a need to better detail research-based facilitation methods, which must balance intervention fidelity and time restrictions with the flexibility required for the intervention. As part of a multi-level 4-armed cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT), 32 rural primary care practices received PF for 1 year. We evaluated the feasibility of having facilitators guide practices to perform 4 key driver domain activities, implemented as Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles, to better understand facilitation "exposure." We describe the intervention and activity length such that our experiences may be useful to other PF research efforts.

Methods

Thirty-two pr

SUBMITTER: Sutton KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571730 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature