Quality Improvement and Personalization for Statins

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Disease

In brief

The investigators developed novel quality improvement intervention consisting of a personalized decision support tool, an educational program, a performance measure, and an audit and feedback system to encourage the adoption of the VA/DoD guidelines for the use of statin medicines. The investigators then performed a cluster randomized trial of the intervention in a single clinic.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02820870

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

43

Starts

2016-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient exclusion criteria included patients over the age of 75, or those who had an ICD-9 or ICD-10 codes for ESRD, muscle pain, pregnancy, or in-vitro fertilization in the 2 years prior to the study visit, those who were on moderate-or-high-strength statins, and those who were not eligible according to the guidelines.

Where it is running

• VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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