Primary Care Clinical Excellence Incentive Study

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Conditions studied: Behavioral Economics, Primary Health Care, Health Maintenance, Diabetes, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Cervical Cancer Screening, Chlamydia Screening, HPV Screening

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04237883
Run by: University of California, Los Angeles
People needed: 225
Starts: 2019-11-01
Expected to finish: 2021-01-01
Last updated by the study team: 2021-01-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

Primary care physicians within the UCLA Health Department of Medicine Primary Care Network and with the following specialties: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, or Family Medicine.
Clinical full-time employee level (FTE) of ≥ 40% at the beginning of the intervention period.
Eligible to receive performance-based financial incentive as determined by the Department of Medicine.
Panel size >50 patients before the first intervention email was sent
Patients, with at least one Health Maintenance topic open before or during at least one visit that takes place with a physician enrolled in the study between November 5, 2019 and March 3, 2020.

You may not qualify if…

Not a primary care physician within the UCLA Health Department of Medicine Primary Care Network.
Not a primary care physician with the following specialties: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, or Family Medicine.
Clinical FTE < 40%.
Not eligible to receive performance-based financial incentive as determined by the Department of Medicine.
Panel size greater than 50 patients before the first intervention email was sent.
Patients that are not seen by a provider enrolled in the study period.
Patients seen by physician in the study with no Health Maintenance topics open before or during any visit that takes place between November 5, 2019 and March 3, 2020.

Where it is running

UCLA Health Department of Medicine, Quality Office — Brentwood, California, United States

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