Healthy Hearts in the Heartland
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases
In brief
This study evaluates the ability of small primary care practices to 1) implement point-of-care and population management quality improvement strategies to improve cardiovascular quality of care (e.g., clinical decision support, patient education and counseling, or referral to smoking quit lines), and 2) implement the PopHealth performance measurement software to evaluate performance on the ABCS (aspirin when appropriate, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and when applicable, smoking cessation) and allow regional benchmarking. This minimal risk study is a practice-randomized trial to determine a) whether point of care strategies improve ABCS performance measures compared to baseline, and b) whether adding locally tailored population management strategies to POC strategies improves performance on the ABCS measures more than POC strategies alone.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02598284
- Run by
- Northwestern University
- People needed
- 226
- Starts
- 2016-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-06-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Providers practicing in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
- Practice is adult primary care-focused; [Further defined: health care organization dedicated to the provision of primary care, and a significant proportion of their patients are adults. Includes, but not limited to, family medicine, general internal medicine, general practice, geriatricians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.]
- Practice has 20 or fewer primary care providers; [Community health centers with 20 or fewer lead clinicians may be included; multi-specialty practices that provide primary care and have ≤ 20 lead clinicians may be included.]
- Providers must provide informed consent.
You may not qualify if…
- Non-English speaking providers
Where it is running
- Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Northern Illinois University (NIU) — DeKalb, Illinois, United States
- Telligen — Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
- Purdue University — West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- MetaStar — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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