EvidenceNOW Facilitator and Practice Characteristics, 2015 to 2017
| Facilitator Characteristics: Qualitative Data, Collected via Interviews and Site Visits | |
| Number of practices per facilitator | Range: 1 to 35; most facilitators worked with 10 to 20 practices across a 9- to 15-month intervention time frame |
| Number of in-person facilitator visits to practice | Range: 12 to 28 intended visits across a 9- to 15-month intervention time frame |
| Facilitator time spent at visit | Range: 30 minutes-4 hours |
| Mode: 1 hour | |
| Practice Characteristics: Practice Survey Data, Collected at Intervention Baseline | |
| Size | 93% had fewer than 10 clinicians |
| Ownership | 40% were clinician owned; this is the largest of all ownership types |
| Location | 68% were located in urban areas |
| 35% served medically underserved communities | |
| Practice Health Information Technology Characteristics: Practice Survey Data, Collected at Intervention Baseline | |
| EHR | 90% were using an electronic health record; 83% were certified by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
| Reporting capability | 62% were participating in meaningful use stages 1 and 2 |
| 26% had an in-house clinician or staff member write/configure clinical quality reports | |
| 38% had an outside service/consultant write/configure clinical quality reports | |
| 17% had no ability to write/configure clinical quality reports | |
| Data fluency | 36% reported that they routinely discussed their clinical quality data “often.” |
EHR, electronic health record.