Clinical trial NCT02299791: Dissemination of CVD Risk Factor Treatment Among Diabetic Patients in Safety Net Clinics
Official title: Dissemination of CVD Risk Factor Treatment Among Diabetic Patients in Safety Net Clinics
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus
Cardiovascular Diseases
Keywords: clinic-level interventions
quality improvement
translational medical research
community health centers
Lead sponsor: Kaiser Permanente
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
name: OCHIN, Inc.
name: Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
name: Multnomah County Health Department
name: Oregon Health and Science University
First posted: 2014-11-24
Enrollment: 4856
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of the ALL Study is to determine the effectiveness of the dissemination of the ALL intervention from an integrated care setting into Community Health Centers (CHCs) by measuring changes in diabetes mellitus (DM) population prescription rates for the medications, using a pre-post comparison within clinics and a staggered, randomized implementation across clinics.

Detailed description: The ALL Initiative ('ALL') is a population-level management program developed at Kaiser Permanente (KP). It seeks to decrease cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes by improving rates of prescribing for guideline-concordant cardioprotective medications. Multiple mechanisms supported this intervention at KP. The investigators implemented ALL in 11 Community Health Centers (CHC) in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. To our knowledge, this was the first clinical trial testing the translation and implementation of a successful quality improvement (QI) initiative from a private, integrated care setting into CHCs.

The investigators adapted the ALL intervention for CHCs through an iterative, stakeholder-driven process. The investigators then conducted a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial in 11 CHCs in a staggered process with six 'early' CHCs implementing the intervention one year before five 'late' CHCs. The investigators measured monthly rates of cardioprotective prescribing rates. Through segmented regression analysis, the investigators evaluated the intervention's effects in June 2011-May 2013. Participants included 11 CHCs serving \~6,500 adult patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) who were indicated for cardioprotective medications per national guidelines. The investigators also conducted a process evaluation to identify factors important to implementation success.

Our overarching goals were to identify and resolve issues in disseminating a successful program from a large, well-organized health system into CHCs. The investigators hypothesized that cross-setting translation was feasible, and that adapting and implementing proven QI approaches could improve the care CHCs provide without requiring them to develop native initiatives. The investigators anticipated that this implementation would involve substantially adapting potentially 'translatable' practices and interventions, due to the differences between private, integrated care settings and CHCs in terms of patient needs and vulnerability, and system resources.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Convenience sample of 11 community health clinics (CHCs) that are members of OCHIN, Inc.

Exclusion Criteria:

* none, for study CHCs

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patients Indicated for ACE/ARB and Statin Who Had an Active Prescription for Both
timeFrame: Percent of clinic patients prescribed guideline-concordant cardioprotective medications, as of the 1st day of each month, from up to 36 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Kaiser Permanente
name: Rachel Gold, PhD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Gold R, Muench J, Hill C, Turner A, Mital M, Milano C, Shah A, Nelson C, DeVoe JE, Nichols GA. Collaborative development of a randomized study to adapt a diabetes quality improvement initiative for federally qualified health centers. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012 Aug;23(3 Suppl):236-46. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0132.
citation: Gold R, Bunce A, Cowburn S, Davis JV, Hollombe C, Nelson CA, Puro J, Muench J, Hill C, Jaworski V, Mercer M, Howard C, Perrin N, DeVoe J. Cardiovascular care guideline implementation in community health centers in Oregon: a mixed-methods analysis of real-world barriers and challenges. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 Apr 5;17(1):253. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2194-3.
citation: Gold R, Bunce AE, Cohen DJ, Hollombe C, Nelson CA, Proctor EK, Pope JA, DeVoe JE. Reporting on the Strategies Needed to Implement Proven Interventions: An Example From a "Real-World" Cross-Setting Implementation Study. Mayo Clin Proc. 2016 Aug;91(8):1074-83. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.03.014. Epub 2016 Apr 23.
citation: Gold R, Nelson C, Cowburn S, Bunce A, Hollombe C, Davis J, Muench J, Hill C, Mital M, Puro J, Perrin N, Nichols G, Turner A, Mercer M, Jaworski V, Howard C, Abiles E, Shah A, Dudl J, Chan W, DeVoe J. Feasibility and impact of implementing a private care system's diabetes quality improvement intervention in the safety net: a cluster-randomized trial. Implement Sci. 2015 Jun 10;10:83. doi: 10.1186/s13012-015-0259-4.