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  • Health Services Research
  • Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Background:

  • Improving patient outcomes for smoking cessation and blood pressure (BP) control is crucial in primary care.
  • EvidenceNOW initiative provided a platform to study cardiovascular disease prevention strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify operational changes and contextual factors associated with improved smoking and BP outcomes in primary care.
  • To understand how practice characteristics influence the effectiveness of interventions.

Main Methods:

  • Purposive sampling of staff from 104 primary care practices involved in EvidenceNOW.
  • Analysis of Clinical Quality Measure improvements for smoking and BP control.
  • Qualitative interviews to identify operational changes, converted to quantitative data.
  • Configurational Comparative Methods to assess joint effects of multiple factors on outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Clinician-owned practices showed improved smoking outcomes with routine screening/counseling workflows or documentation/referral changes, especially with moderate facilitation.
  • BP outcomes improved in solo practices with accurate BP measurement training.
  • Larger, clinician-owned practices saw BP improvements with a second BP measurement protocol and improved EHR documentation.
  • Sufficient facilitation (≥50 hours) enhanced BP outcomes in larger and system-owned practices implementing operational changes.

Conclusions:

  • No universal approach exists for enhancing smoking or BP outcomes.
  • Improvements are context-dependent, influenced by practice ownership, size, and the extent of external facilitation.
  • Tailored implementation strategies are necessary for optimizing cardiovascular risk reduction in primary care.