RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Organizational Leadership and Adaptive Reserve in Blood Pressure Control: The Heart Health NOW Study
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP S29
OP S34
DO 10.1370/afm.2210
VO 16
IS Suppl 1
A1 Kamal H. Henderson
A1 Darren A. DeWalt
A1 Jacquie Halladay
A1 Bryan J. Weiner
A1 Jung I. Kim
A1 Jason Fine
A1 Samuel Cykert
YR 2018
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/16/Suppl_1/S29.abstract
AB PURPOSE Our purpose was to assess whether a practice’s adaptive reserve and high leadership capability in quality improvement are associated with population blood pressure control.METHODS We divided practices into quartiles of blood pressure control performance and considered the top quartile as the benchmark for comparison. Using abstracted clinical data from electronic health records, we performed a cross-sectional study to assess the association of top quartile hypertension control and (1) the baseline practice adaptive reserve (PAR) scores and (2) baseline practice leadership scores, using modified Poisson regression models adjusting for practice-level characteristics.RESULTS Among 181 practices, 46 were in the top quartile, which averaged 68% or better blood pressure control. Practices with higher PAR scores compared with lower PAR scores were not more likely to reside in the top quartile of performance (prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.92 for highest quartile; 95% CI, 0.9–4.1). Similarly, high quality improvement leadership capability compared with lower capability did not predict better blood pressure control performance (PR = 0.94; 95% CI, 0.57–1.56). Practices with higher proportions of commercially insured patients were more likely than practices with lower proportions of commercially insured patients to have top quartile performance (37% vs 26%, P =.002), whereas lower proportions of the uninsured (8% vs 14%, P =.055) were associated with better performance.CONCLUSIONS Our findings show that adaptive reserve and leadership capability in quality improvement implementation are not statistically associated with achieving top quartile practice-level hypertension control at baseline in the Heart Health NOW project. Our findings, however, may be limited by a lack of patient-related factors and small sample size to preclude strong conclusions.