Characteristics and Outcome Scale Scores of 207 Small- and Medium-Sized Primary Care Practices in Colorado and New Mexico That Participated in EvidenceNOW Southwest Cardiovascular Care Improvement Initiative, Gathered using Practice- and Employee-Level Surveys upon Practice Enrollment, December 2015 through November 2017
| Characteristics | EvidenceNOW Southwest Initiative (N = 207 Practices) Mean (SD) or % |
|---|---|
| Practice survey items–patient-team partnership | |
| Patient and family input. | 2.3 (1.5) |
| Patient experience survey. | 3.4 (1.6) |
| Link patients to community resources for self-management. | 3.1 (1.3) |
| Link patients to community resources to address social determinants. | 3.1 (1.4) |
| Provide patients with tools and resources to manage health. | 3.5 (1.1) |
| Patient-team partnership scale (α = 0.82) | 51.5 (26.1) |
| Practice member survey items–patient-team partnership | |
| Good job of assessing patient needs and expectations. | 3.1 (0.7) |
| Data from patients to improve care. | 3.0 (0.8) |
| Data on patient experience when developing new services. | 2.9 (0.8) |
| Ask patients about unmet social needs. | 2.6 (1.1) |
| Link patients with unmet social needs to community resources. | 2.6 (1.1) |
| Practice member patient-team partnership scale (α = 0.81) | 71.2 (17.1) |
| Practice member patient-team partnership scale–clinicians | 66.2 (17.6) |
| Practice member patient-team partnership scale–staff | 73.2 (16.6) |
| Practice member patient-team partnership scale–[role not provided] | 66.8 (16.2) |
| Ownership | |
| Clinician | 47.9% |
| Hospital/academic center | 15.6% |
| Federally Qualified Health Center/rural | 36.5% |
| Practice Size: Number of Providers | |
| Solo | 21.0% |
| 2 to 5 | 60.5% |
| 6 to 10 | 16.6% |
| >10 | 2.0% |
| Payer mix | |
| Percent Medicaid | 27.4 (22.1) |
| Percent Medicare | 18.7 (14.0) |
| Percent uninsured | 11.2 (13.9) |
| Percent commercial payer | 37.6 (25.2) |
| Accountable care organization membership | |
| Medicaid | 27.0% |
| Medicare | 26.1% |
| Private/commercial | 13.7% |
| Patient registries | |
| Number of registries | 2.9 (2.4) |
| Any registry | 67.8% |
| Use of clinical guidelines | |
| Prevention | |
| Number of guidelines | 1.8 (1.4) |
| No guidelines | 16.6% |
| Management | |
| Number of guidelines | 1.7 (1.4) |
| No guidelines | 18.5% |
| Geographic area | |
| Rural | 28.9% |
| Nonrural | 71.1% |
| Other characteristics | |
| Multispecialty | 32.2% |
| PCMH recognized | 44.6% |
| Medically underserved | 45.0% |
| Practice member characteristics | |
| Role | |
| Clinician (physician or advanced practice provider) | 24.1% |
| Staff | 72.7% |
| Role not provided | 3.2% |
| Years at practice (mean) | 5.1 (6.0) |
| 0 | 18.7% |
| 1 to 2 | 27.7% |
| 3 to 5 | 22.9% |
| 6 to 10 | 16.2% |
| >10 | 14.6% |
| Hours per week | 38.9 (8.7) |
SD, standard deviation; PCMH, patient-centered medical home.