Components of the Change Process Capability Questionnaire Strategies Scale (N = 1,181 practices)
| The practice has used the following strategies to improve cardiovascular preventive care | Agree or Strongly Agree No. (%) |
|---|---|
| Changing or creating systems in the practice that make it easier to provide high-quality care | 935 (79.2) |
| Providing information and skills training | 891 (75.4) |
| Removal or reduction of barriers to better quality of care | 880 (74.5) |
| Periodic measurement of care quality for assessing compliance with any new approach to care | 816 (69.1) |
| Using teams focused on accomplishing the change process for improved care | 808 (68.4) |
| Deliberately designing care improvements to make the care process more beneficial to the patient | 799 (67.7) |
| Using opinion leaders, role modeling, or other vehicles to encourage support for changes | 757 (64.1) |
| Providing to those who are charged with implementing improved care the power to authorize and make the desired changes | 753 (63.8) |
| Reporting measurements of practice performance on CVD prevention measures for comparison with their peers | 740 (62.7) |
| Setting goals and benchmarking rates of performance quality on CVD prevention measures at least yearly | 683 (57.8) |
| Customizing the implementation of CVD prevention care changes to the practice | 632 (53.5) |
| Deliberately designing care improvements so as to make clinician participation less work than before | 623 (52.8) |
| Delegating to nonclinician staff the responsibility to carry out aspects of care that are normally the responsibility of physicians | 548 (46.4) |
| Using rapid cycling, piloting, pretesting, or other vehicles for reducing the risk of negative results for introducing organization-wide change in care | 492 (41.7) |
CVD=cardiovascular disease.