Purpose: To assess whether primary care practices with and without support from a larger
organization differ in their ability to produce timely reports on cardiovascular disease quality …

PURPOSE We undertook a study to assess whether implementing 7 evidence-based
strategies to build improvement capacity within smaller primary care practices was …

PURPOSE Improving primary care quality is a national priority, but little is known about the
extent to which small to medium-size practices use quality improvement (QI) strategies to …

Background: Recent proposals to reform primary care have encouraged physician practices
to adopt such structural capabilities as performance feedback and electronic health records …

Background: Engaging primary care practices in quality improvement (QI) efforts has been
challenging. Literature provides little guidance on the engagement of small to medium-sized …

Background: Primary care medical practices increasingly are asked by payers, employers,
and government agencies to report quality data, but the process of doing so is not well …

Background Physicians in small to moderate primary care practices in the United States
(US)(< 25 physicians) face unique challenges in implementing quality improvement (QI) …

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Background Identifying characteristics of primary care practices that perform well on
cardiovascular clinical quality measures (CQMs) may point to important practice …

Abstract Background. During 2000–03, Qualidigm, a US Quality Improvement Organization,
conducted a project to improve the care received by elderly Medicare patients with coronary …