The Northwest Coalition for Primary Care Practice Support

Summary

The purpose of this project is to build capacity for quality improvement (QI) in small primary care practices across Washington, Oregon and Idaho by improving risk factors for heart attacks such as blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking. The Northwest Coalition for Primary Care Practice Support will assist practices by providing them with a QI coach, creating group learning opportunities, and conducting educational outreach activities. An innovative study design will be used to determine what levels and types of support are most helpful and effective.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Essential Hypertension
• Nicotine Dependence
• Hyperlipidemia

Interventions

OTHER

Coaching

An external facilitator or coach is assigned 15-20 primary care clinics and will make face-to-face site visits and monthly phone calls for 15 months to support building QI capacity in each assigned practcie

OTHER

Educational Outreach

Practices randomized to this arm of the study will receive an educational outreach phone call by an academic expert on implementation strategies for use of a cardiovascular risk calculator within their daily work flow and clinic setting

OTHER

Site Visits

Practices randomized to this arm of the study will be given an opportunity to make a site visit to an "exemplar" practice to learn about innovative approaches to conducting quality improvement activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Washington

  collaborator OTHER

• Oregon Health and Science University

  collaborator OTHER

• Qualis Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Kaiser Permanente

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Michael L Parchman, MD · Kaiser Permanente

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-05-01

Primary Completion

2018-05-01

Completion

2018-05-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations