Use of quality improvement strategies among small to medium-size US primary care practices

BA Balasubramanian, M Marino… - The Annals of Family …, 2018 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Improving primary care quality is a national priority, but little is known about the
extent to which small to medium-size practices use quality improvement (QI) strategies to …

Contextual factors that influence quality improvement implementation in primary care: the role of organizations, teams, and individuals

CM Shea, K Turner, J Albritton… - Health care management …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: Recent emphasis on value-based health care has highlighted the importance
of quality improvement (QI) in primary care settings. QI efforts, which require providers and …

[HTML][HTML] Study protocol for “Healthy Hearts Northwest”: a 2× 2 randomized factorial trial to build quality improvement capacity in primary care

ML Parchman, LJ Fagnan, DA Dorr, P Evans… - Implementation …, 2016 - Springer
Background Little attention has been paid to quality improvement (QI) capacity within
smaller primary care practices which comprise nearly half of all primary care settings …

Quality improvement in local health departments: results of the NACCHO 2008 survey

LM Beitsch, C Leep, G Shah, RG Brooks… - Journal of Public …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives To assess the current status of quality improvement (QI) within local health
departments (LHDs) and examine the characteristics associated with such QI efforts …

Cost to primary care practices of responding to payer requests for quality and performance data

JR Halladay, SC Stearns, T Wroth… - The Annals of Family …, 2009 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE We wanted to determine how much it costs primary care practices to participate
in programs that require them to gather and report data on care quality indicators …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing quality improvement capacity in primary care practices

ML Parchman, ML Anderson, K Coleman… - BMC family …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Healthy Hearts Northwest (H2N) is a study of external support
strategies to build quality improvement (QI) capacity in primary care with a focus on …

Measure, learn, and improve: physicians' involvement in quality improvement

AMJ Audet, MM Doty, J Shamasdin… - Health Affairs, 2005 - healthaffairs.org
Payers, accreditors, and consumers are using quality improvement (QI) methods, but little is
known about whether physicians do so. The results from this 2003 national physician survey …

[PDF][PDF] Quality improvement in primary care: external supports for practices

EF Taylor, D Peikes, K Geonnotti, R McNellis… - Rockville, MD: Agency …, 2014 - ahrq.gov
Although there is currently no nationwide system to support QI by practices, area health
education centers (AHECs), health information technology regional extension centers …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in patient-reported quality among health care organizations

LS Solomon, AM Zaslavsky, BE Landon… - Health Care Financing …, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Health care quality measurement initiatives often use health plans as the unit of analysis, but
plans often contract with provider organizations that are managed independently. There is …

[HTML][HTML] Quality improvement in small office settings: an examination of successful practices

D Wolfson, E Bernabeo, B Leas, S Sofaer… - BMC family …, 2009 - Springer
Background Physicians in small to moderate primary care practices in the United States
(US)(< 25 physicians) face unique challenges in implementing quality improvement (QI) …