RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Patient Care Outcomes of the SEAHEC Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) Experience
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 16
OP 23
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2013.01.120052
VO 26
IS 1
A1 Meyer, Albert A.
A1 Donahue, Katrina E.
A1 Batish, Sonali
A1 Gentry, Terry
A1 Adams, Ashley
A1 Brown, Amanda
A1 Baumann, Melissa
YR 2013
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/26/1/16.abstract
AB Purpose: This study describes the effects of the collaboration between the South East Area Health Education Center and Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) on the improvement in quality markers in chronic disease states in a southeastern North Carolina family practice. Methods: Teams were created throughout 6 counties to implement strategies at biweekly quality team meetings that would ultimately improve patient quality, as measured by adherence to IPIP benchmarks. Grant-funded cash incentives were given to the practice to create a chronic care registry. Quarterly learning network meetings encouraged the exchange of quality improvement techniques. Results: The practice's quality team succeeded in creating a chronic care registry, improving patient care as measured by benchmark chronic disease states, and extending this knowledge to other areas of their practice. Discussion: With mounting economic barriers to quality preventive services and medical access of any kind, the quality improvement in diabetic care and asthma is notable. The SEAHEC collaborative helped the practice achieve better results in approaching quality benchmarks than state averages, despite serving a more economically challenged population.