N/A N=451 Persons With Disabilities Generating Quality Metrics
Physical Disability · Chronic Mental Disorder
Primary: Improved Quality of Care — 45; 68; 53 Participants — p=0.074
Clinical Trial Search
Completed trials with posted results — search by concept, filter by the parameters that matter at the bedside.
N/A N=49 Understanding Disparities in Healthcare and Primary Care Provider Quality
Physical Disability
Primary: Satisfaction With Medical Care Survey — 3.4; 3.8; 3.6; 3.0 units on a scale
N/A N=60 Safe Critical Care: Testing Improvement Strategies
Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) · Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Primary: CLABSI and VAP Rates — 1.84; 2.42; 2.24; 2.47 events/1000 device days — p=<.05
N/A N=3,962 Evaluating Evidence-Based Quality Improvement of Comprehensive Women's Health Care Implementation in Low-Performing VAs
Comprehensive Care
Primary: Gender-sensitive Care Environment — 4.2; 3.3; 1.6; 1.4 score on a scale — p=0.623
N/A N=12 Using Data-Driven Implementation Strategies to Improve the Quality of Cirrhosis Care
Cirrhosis, Liver
Primary: Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening — 1.61 Odds ratio
Phase 3 N=835 Virtual Continuity and Its Impact on Complex Hospitalized Patients' Care
Automated Communication Tools · Complex Medical Patients
Primary: Medication Errors at Hospital Discharge — 645; 359 Errors
N/A N=168,477 Consumer Health IT Tools: Impact on Experience, Access, and Outcomes for Patients With Complex Chronic Conditions
Chronic Disease · Patient Outcome Assessment · Electronic Health Records
Primary: Number of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) Hospitalizations. Portal Users vs Those Who Are Not Portal Users — 6.2; 7.0 hospitalizations/1000 participants/month
N/A N=115 MIHS Emergency Department CPR Quality Improvement Project
Cardiac Arrest
Primary: CPR Quality-compression Depth — 46.7; 61.6 mm
N/A N=92 Developing a Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Quality Improvement (QI) Systems Impact Assessment Questionnaire
Quality Improvement
Primary: Beliefs About Ability to Implement a CQI Project — .80; .28 units on a scale — p=0.02
N/A N=213 Using Health-related Quality of Life (HRQL) in Routine Clinical Care
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease · Pulmonary Fibrosis · Pulmonary Hypertension
Primary: Communication Score — 1.14; 1.50; 1.36; 1.75 Mean number of issues discussed — p=0.05
Phase 4 N=2,199 A Chronic Care Model Based Quality Improvement (QI) Program to Improve the Care of Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Chronic Kidney Disease
Primary: Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) — 135.1; 134.4 mmHg — p=0.57
N/A N=85 A Quality Improvement Process to Support Delivery of Cardiovascular Care in Community Mental Health Organizations
Diabetes Mellitus · Hypertension · Dyslipidemias
Primary: Quality Improvement Culture as Assessed by the Modified Version of the Validated Survey on Patient Safety — 3.8; 3.8 score on a scale
N/A N=29,134 Evaluating the Impact of Patient-Centered Oncology Care
Neoplasms
Primary: Change in Patient Experience From Baseline to Follow up — 90.1; 90.0; 92.8; 92.4 units on a scale — p=.025
N/A N=445 Improving Colonoscopy Quality for Colorectal Cancer Screening in the National VA Healthcare System
Colorectal Neoplasms
Primary: Provider Adenoma Detection Rate (for All Colonoscopies) — 52.7; 46.9; 43.5; 42.8 % of colonoscopies w/ 1+ adenomas
N/A N=800 Health Care Hotspotting: A Randomized Controlled Trial
High Utilizers of Hospital Care
Primary: Any Hospital Readmission — 240; 245 Participants
N/A N=25,507 Minnesota Care Coordination Effectiveness Study
Chronic Disease · Multi-morbidity · Care Coordination
Primary: Change in Composite Measure of Care Quality — 7.0; 4.5; 5.9; 5.9 Change in percent — p=0.19
N/A N=46 Measuring and Improving the Safety of Test Result Follow-Up
Lung Cancer · Breast Cancer · Colon Cancer
Primary: Trigger Outcome — 67.0; 65.9; 78.6; 78.1 percentage of abnormal tests w/ followup
N/A N=136 Aspiring to Awesome- Patient Preference Privacy Selections in EMR
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Primary: Number of Patients Recording Preferences to Restrict Provider Access to Some or All Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data — 45; 13 participants
N/A N=355 Enhanced Quality in Primary Care for Elders With Diabetes and Dementia
Diabetes · Dementia · Alzheimer Disease
Primary: Percent of Patients Who Reach Consensus Target HBA1c — 12; 18.75 percentage of participants
N/A N=1,101 An Emergency Department-To-Home Intervention to Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Hospital Use
ED Patients With Chronic Medical Illnesses
Primary: Change in Physical Function Between Baseline and 60 Days Post-ED Visit — -1.47; -0.83 T-score — p=0.49
N/A N=189 Measuring Quality of Medical Student Performance at Contextualizing Care
Education, Medical, Undergraduate · Medical History Taking · Diagnosis
Primary: Developing an Appropriate Treatment Plan (for Contextual Variant of Encounters) — 0.67; 0.24 proportion of contextual encounters — p=<0.001
N/A N=583 Evaluation of Intensive Management Patient Aligned Care Team
Primary Health Care · Health Care Costs
Primary: VA Health Care Costs — 6139; 5821; 4850; 4618 US Dollars
N/A N=1,400 Integrated Care (IC) Models for Patient-Centered Outcomes
Diabetes · Asthma · Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Primary: Patient Activation — 61.87; 63.73; 63.82; 63.15 score on a scale — p=0.0211
N/A N=136 Veterans Affairs Lowering Readmission in Heart Failure
Heart Failure
Primary: General Quality of Life From the Standardized Physical Component Score — 31.6; 35.5 units on a scale — p=0.05
N/A N=273 SHARE: Sharing Healthcare Wishes in Primary Care
Cognitive Impairment
Primary: Average Scores for Patient and Caregiver-Reported Quality of Communication at 6-Months — 3.41; 3.09; 3.06; 1.93 score on a scale
N/A N=781 Building a Multidisciplinary Bridge Across the Quality Chasm in Thoracic Oncology
Lung Cancer
Primary: Thoroughness of Invasive Staging, Multidisciplinary (MD) vs Serial Care (SC) — 108; 168; 70; 180 Participants — p=0.0007
N/A N=43 Quality Improvement and Personalization for Statins
Cardiovascular Disease
Primary: Percent of Visits Where Moderate-to-high-strength Statins Are Appropriately Initiated — 102; 95 Visits — p=<0.01
N/A N=7,590 Improving Palliative Care Through Teamwork
Palliative Care
Primary: Hospital Site of Death: Number of Decedents Cared for in an Enrolled and Assigned NH Facility, Who Were Transferred to a Hospital and Died in the Hospital During the…
N/A N=1,915 Improving Patient Prioritization During Hospital-homecare Transition
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 · Congestive Heart Failure · Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Primary: Number of Rehospitalizations Within 60 Days After Hospital Discharge — 807 rehospitalizations
N/A N=83 Caring for Providers to Improve Patient Experience Study Phase 2 in Migori County
Maternal Health · Mental Health · Healthcare Provider
Primary: Change in Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) Score From Baseline to 6 Months — 20.89; 20.58; 18.63; 20.05 score on a scale