A Heart Healthy Intervention Improved Tobacco Screening Rates and Cessation Support in Primary Care Practices.

ABSTRACT: We examined whether an evidence-based cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention (Heart Health Now) would improve rates for tobacco cessation screening and counseling in small primary care practices in North Carolina. Heart Health Now was a stepped wedge, stratified, cluster randomized trial for primary care practices that were staffed by 10 or fewer clinicians and had an electronic health record. The Heart Health Now intervention consisted of education tools, onsite practice facilitation for one year, and a practice-specific cardiovascular population management dashboard that included monthly, measure-specific run charts to help guide quality improvement. Our primary outcomes were practice-level rates of tobacco screening and tobacco cessation support-extracted from practices' ele

SUBMITTER: Kowitt SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9536240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature