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Quality Improvement and Personalization for Statins (QUIPS) (QUE 15-286)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Statin Decision Support Intervention for Cardiovascular Disease. Completed, enrolled 43 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators developed novel quality improvement intervention consisting of a personalized decision support tool, an educational program, a performance measure, and an audit and feedback system to encourage the adoption of the VA/DoD guidelines for the use of statin medicines. The investigators then performed a cluster randomized trial of the intervention in a single clinic.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The investigators have developed a "mock" medical record decision support tool for this project. Each week the investigators will pull a list of patients scheduled for a primary care visit at the Ann Arbor VAMC then calculate each patient's risk based on the clinical guidelines algorithm and compare the statin recommendation against their current prescriptions. For each patient whose current medication therapy is not consistent with the new guidelines (i.e., are "guideline discordant"), a brief recommendation will be generated. Each day the research assistant will deliver a hardcopy of these patient specific recommendations to the providers for their use. In addition, providers will receive monthly audit and feedback reports on the percentage of their patients meeting the guideline.