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Treatment Intensification (Combination Therapy)

Plan

Treatment Intensification (Combination Therapy)

Actual

Describe Intervention

(Select ONE; useBPAA Project Roadmap for ideas on evidence-based strategies)

Chosen intervention: Expandednurse-run hypertension clinics with provider involvement

Plan for intervention: Plan is to have one nurse on Tuesday seeing all HTN pts and 3-4 providers working on that day will be educated on HTN workflows; nurse will bring in one provider to review, change, or continue meds for pts; nurse will also prompt/nudge provider by having a covered formulary list (recently developed) and providing any necessary education on meds to streamline care; nurse will continue to offer training on guideline-supported treatment algorithms and will have regular 3-6 month follow up with providers to assess pt compliance

Chosen Intervention: nurse-run hypertension clinics with provider involvement

Date when implemented: planned for Fall 2023

Updates:

Reach (#/% patients – or providers, for provider-facing interventions – who participated in intervention)

Reach of implementers/providers?

Planned:

Reach of implementers/providers?

Actual:

Reach of patients (# of patients receiving treatment intensification)?

Planned:

  • # AA pts. w/uncontrolled HTN on no therapy (as of 6/30/2023):

  • # AA pts. w/uncontrolled HTN on monotherapy (as of 6/30/2023):

Reach of patients (# of patients receiving treatment intensification)?

Actual:

Efficacy (Impact of intervention on important outcomes)

How will you measure that your intervention is working?

track the number of patients who came into the clinic and who has BP improvement (1-3 months after visit); can also track the number of patients who were intensified after clinic visit; nurse team plans to use an Excel for tracking pt list(s) and can add a note “meds were intensified” and run reportng reporting use dot phrases;

Were you able to accurately measure how your intervention was working?

What outcomes do you expect?

would expect to see an increased in med intensification for target population based on increased provider education and involvement in med management/treatment planning; would also anticipate decreased decrease in monotherapy prescribing as nurses continue to train on guideline-supported treatment algorithms as part of these “joint visits”

What outcomes have you seen?

How will you ensure your intervention will be effective for your target population?

Did your intervention reach the target population?

What unintended consequences or outcomes might there be?

What unintended outcomes did you experience?

Adoption (#/% and representativeness of staff and sites who implemented the intervention)

How did clinicians respond to interventions to intensify medication more rapidly/address therapeutic inertia?

Who will deliver the intervention (actually do the work)? Include staff and sites, if applicable.

Who delivered the intervention? Did they have the skills and time needed to complete the intervention?

How will you know if clinicians/care teams/sites used the intervention?

What proportion of the planned staff/sites implemented the intervention?

Were there any differences between care teams/sites who adopted the intervention best vs. others who did not (e.g., differences in staff types, capacity, etc.)?

Implementation Fidelity (How closely the staff/sites followed the intervention design, delivered it as intended – also called fidelity to the intervention)

How will you know what adaptations or modifications were made during the intervention?

How did you track modifications during the intervention?

What might be some of the possible obstacles to consistent implementation?

What were the barriers to consistent intervention implementation?

What costs and resources (including time and burden, not just money) need to be considered?

What costs and resources (including time and burden, not just money) need to be considered?

How closely did the staff/sites follow the intervention design and deliver as intended?

Check all that apply:

  •  Followed as designed
  •  Followed with minor modifications
  •  Followed somewhat as designed
  •  Not followed as design
  •  Delivered consistently/as intended
  •  Delivered somewhat consistently/somewhat as intended
  •  Delivered inconsistently/not as intended

Modifications made and other notes:

Maintenance (Extent to which intervention is part of routine practices and protocols)

What reinforcements will you put in place to sustain the intervention, if effective?

  •  Protocols
  •  Clinical decision support (alerts, order sets, templates, registries)
  •  Policies
  •  Regular training
  •  Regular reports
  •  Incentives
  •  Other:

Explain:

What reinforcements did you put into place to sustain the intervention?

  •  Protocols
  •  Clinical decision support (alerts, order sets, templates, registries)
  •  Policies
  •  Regular training
  •  Regular reports
  •  Incentives
  •  Other:

Explain:

How will you spread your intervention and lessons learned?

How will you spread your intervention and lessons learned?

What are likely modifications or adaptations that will need to be made to sustain the intervention over time (e.g., lower cost, different staff, reduced intensity, different settings)?

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