Primary Care Clinical Excellence Incentive Study

Summary

As part of UCLA Health's commitment to developing a premier integrated health system built on a foundation of physician-led, team-based primary care, the Department of Medicine (DOM) recently implemented a new performance based incentive plan called the Primary Care Clinical Excellence (PCCE) Incentive Plan. This incentive plan was developed to motivate providers to improve health maintenance screening rates.

The UCLA Health DOM Quality team is leading the implementation and evaluation of this new incentive plan across our primary care network. In addition, the DOM Quality team has partnered with the UCLA Anderson School of Management to study the most efficacious ways to frame and communicate performance based incentives.

Understanding the factors that motivate physicians to deliver the highest quality primary care will provide pivotal insights into the successful implementation of performance based programs nationwide. The investigators believe that physicians who receive communication built on behavioral principles will demonstrate more motivation towards and success at meeting national primary care screening guidelines.

Conditions

• Behavioral Economics
• Primary Health Care
• Health Maintenance
• Diabetes
• Colorectal Cancer Screening
• Cervical Cancer Screening
• Chlamydia Screening
• HPV Screening

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Standard communication email

This is the base communication that all physicians will receive.

BEHAVIORAL

Social comparison Intervention

The social comparison is added onto the standard communication email to provide some peer comparison between the physicians.

BEHAVIORAL

Leadership Training

Clinic and Physician leads will be provided with a clinic leadership training seminars in leadership, quality improvement, and support from the Quality Improvement team at UCLA Health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-11-01

Primary Completion

2020-11-01

Completion

2021-01-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations