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Statin Initiation Goals:

  1. Received Prescription - ASCVD (Cohort): goal of 20 20%of those who come in for a f/u visit

  2. Received Prescription -  LDL ≥190 mg/DL (Cohort): goal of 25 25% of those who come in for a f/u visit

  3. Received Prescription - Diabetes and LDL 70-189 mg/DL (Cohort): goal of 50 50% of those who come in for a f/u visit

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Plan

Actual

Describe Intervention

Chosen intervention: Provider Professional Development

Plan for intervention:

  • CMO 1:1 which includes chart reviews (peer reviews), UDS cheat sheet, alignment with evidence based guidelines

    • Ongoing provider education on cholesterol guidelines & strategies to overcome patient hesitancy (motivational interviewing), fine tuning the way we share information and improvement efforts with providers (newsletter).

  • Provider meetings: Portia provides QI overview

    • Each meeting a topic is selected - an issue is the amount of time to explore any topic - each month run providers list of patients who should be on statin therapy and sort by outcome (those not on statin and should be are at top of list.

    • heart health champion motivates performance

Chosen Intervention: Provider Professional Development

  • CMO 1:1

    • Implemented: January 2023

    • Frequency: met with everyone initially, now offered as needed

    • Purpose: provider productivity, professional development, following evidence-based guidelines

  • Provider meeting

    • Implemented: Today’s structure implemented Spring 2023

    • Frequency: Monthly

    • Purpose: show and tell, announcements/updates, productivity, UDS, clinical trends, special programs, finance, presentations from vendors/partners

  • All staff meeting:

    • Implemented: a long time ago

    • Frequency: Quarterly

    • Purpose: Providers and staff hear updates together (Quality Improvement is led by Portia & Dr. Chery)

  • Biweekly Breakfast Club:

    • Implemented: July 13, 2023 (after MH Harvest meeting (smile) )

    • Frequency: 2x/month

    • Purpose: specific clinical topic each month

  • Questions for Poster for Harvest Meeting:

    • Strategy Name (e.g., outreach, clinical decision support, clinician education, data reports, etc.)

    • Strategy Description 

    • Who Enacts the Strategy? (e.g., QI staff, clinicians, health center leadership, patients/consumers, etc.)

    • What specific Actions, Steps, or Processes Need to be Enacted?

    • When is the Strategy Used? (e.g., during each patient visit, during monthly QI meetings)

    • What is the Dose of the Strategy? (e.g., one 3-hour training)

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

Reach of implementers/providers?

Planned: 100% of PCPs will receive education on cholesterol guidelines & strategies to overcome patient hesitancy

Reach of implementers/providers?

Actual: #of 11 PCPs ?(100%)

Reach of patients: 50% of patients at high risk for a cardiovascular event will receive education using a validated clinical reference tool.

Reach of patients?

Actual: 84% rolling 12 months as of April 2024

Efficacy (Impact of intervention on important outcomes)

How will you measure that your intervention is working?

  • Epic UDS data for statin therapy

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

  • Yes

What outcomes do you expect?

  • 82% of patients at high risk for a cardiovascular event will be prescribed a statin.

What outcomes have you seen?

  • 84% statin therapy rolling 12 months as of April 2024steadily increasing

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

  • Monthly data analysis

Did your intervention reach the target population?

  • Yes

What unintended consequences or outcomes might there be?

What unintended outcomes did you experience?

  • Increase in aspirin for IVD?all heart health CHQR Badge measures because we view them all together

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?

Dr. Stevenson Chery (CMO) ; Yeslead the forums for all PCPs. Yes, has the skills and time to complete.

The providers attended, engaged, and implemented what they learned. Yes, has the skills and time to complete.

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

Run reports on clinical reference use and as well as net change in statin uds performance.

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

100%

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.)?

N/A

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?

All scheduled forums were executed. Patient’s received improved quality of care which is reflected in UDS performance.

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

What were the barriers to consistent intervention implementation?

Time & staffing (Ex: Making time to have the 1:1s)

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?

Availability of staff

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:

  • 1:1s transitioned to “as needed”

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?

Awarding sites for all other CQ measures to encourage understanding of measures and drive performance.

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)?

Staffing, reinforcement, maintaining transparency, consistency with driving measure and open communication of results

Intervention #2

Plan

Intervention #2

Actual

Describe Intervention

Chosen intervention: PCN Previsit Planning

Plan for intervention:

  • PCN provides information to providers in advance of provider-led huddle

  • Working on attaining pop health nurse. In meantime, QI nurse (Natasha) to commit 1 day/week to work on pop health activities, pending approval.

    • Managed care team will support Natasha in pt outreach in advance of appt to managed care pts

    • PCNs outreach to other pts (divide & conquer)

Chosen Intervention: PCN Previsit Planning

Date when implemented: Nov 2023

Updates: Has been an ongoing process over last 2 years to improve this planning, but latest successful approach began last year and has been going well! Using print out from Epic and documenting care gaps for provider. Planning done by EOD in preparation for tomorrow morning’s huddle. Huddles are provider led.

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

Reach of implementers/providers?

  • Planned: 2 PCNs

Reach of implementers/providers?

Actual: 3 2.5 FTE PCNs

Reach of patients?

  • All BCOM patients all 3 risk groups, n=TBD

Reach of patients?

Actual: reports are in Epic, can run them 3/8 and populate thenfrom Nov 2023 - May 2024, 36 out of 134 statin rx were made

Efficacy (Impact of intervention on important outcomes)

How will you measure that your intervention is working?

  • Possibly look at people coming in and completing visits

  • More ASCVD & Hyperchol / LDL patients receiving statin rx.

  • improvement in cholesterol screening and UDS report outcomes

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

Provider feedback that providers know what to expect and can anticipate tx for patient when they arrive.

Rate of statin rx continued to grow.

What outcomes do you expect?

Increase in Statin Rx & cholesterol screening measures

What outcomes have you seen?

Increased provider & team engagement (providers, MAs, HIM, etc) resulting from increased collaboration. Feeling successful in care delivery because of preparation.

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

Cohort f/u and rx performance increase

Did your intervention reach the target population?

Yes by identifying gaps and opportunities in advance, preparing for conversation about statins if appropriate.

What unintended consequences or outcomes might there be?

What unintended outcomes did you experience?

Added additional focus on HTN because noticed that statin therapy compliance is greater. Pop health also focusing on IVD. Goal to bring both up to meet statin therapy.

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.

PCNs (n=3, across 4 sites)

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

PCNs completed intervention. They have the skills & time.

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

restructured daily huddle - reporting on patients coming in - challenge is that the patient must be on schedule

on the prior day, QI nurse is put in PHN role 1 day/week and looking at patient screenings and care gaps, including statin therapy

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

All sites implemented the process, all staff were involved.

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.)?

N/A

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?

using Epic huddle form with addition of statin therapy piece (handwrite on huddle form), can look at paper form to see if they are followed or not - scanned into folder and can go back and check statin piece

How did you track modifications during the intervention?

Email and conversation, modifying process based on care team feedback.

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

What were the barriers to consistent intervention implementation?

Not having every provider understand huddle process and how it should benefit them. Dr. Chery visited each site and walked them through the value of the process. Having stronger providers champion the process for their site. Increasing understanding on how process makes their day easier.

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?

Hiring of PCN, getting buy in from all staff.

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:

Included statin as part of broader focus on heart health

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: reports are ran monthly to see changes

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?

Spread the use of incentives across all clinical quality measures, driving attention on all which will impact previsit planning and huddle conversations.

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)?

Creativity and flexibility! Frequent analysis of outcomes to ensure process remains effective and modify as needed.

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