<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lindner, Stephan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Solberg, Leif I.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miller, William L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Balasubramanian, Bijal A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marino, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McConnell, K. John</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Edwards, Samuel T.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stange, Kurt C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer, Rachel J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohen, Deborah J.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does Ownership Make a Difference in Primary Care Practice?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019-05-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">398-407</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3122/jabfm.2019.03.180271</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">32</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Purpose: We assessed differences in structural characteristics, quality improvement processes, and cardiovascular preventive care by ownership type among 989 small to medium primary care practices.Methods: This cross-sectional analysis used electronic health record and survey data collected between September 2015 and April 2017 as part of an evaluation of the EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care Initiative by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. We compared physician-owned practices, health system or medical group practices, and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) by using 15 survey-based practice characteristic measures, 9 survey-based quality improvement process measures, and 4 electronic health record-based cardiovascular disease prevention quality measures, namely, aspirin prescription, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation support (ABCS).Results: Physician-owned practices were more likely to be solo (45.0% compared with 8.1%, P &lt; .001 for health system practices and 12.8%, P = .009 for FQHCs) and less likely to have experienced a major change (eg, moved to a new location) in the last year (43.1% vs 65.4%, P = .01 and 72.1%, P = .001, respectively). FQHCs reported the highest use of quality improvement processes, followed by health system practices. ABCS performance was similar across ownership type, with the exception of smoking cessation support (51.0% for physician-owned practices vs 67.3%, P = .004 for health system practices and 69.3%, P = .004 for FQHCs).Conclusions: Primary care practice ownership was associated with differences in quality improvement process measures, with FQHCs reporting the highest use of such quality-improvement strategies. ABCS were mostly unrelated to ownership, suggesting a complex path between quality improvement strategies and outcomes.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>