Status:

COMPLETED

Evaluating Evidence-Based Quality Improvement of Comprehensive Women's Health Care Implementation in Low-Performing VAs

Lead Sponsor:

VA Office of Research and Development

Conditions:

Comprehensive Care

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Gaps in delivery of gender-sensitive comprehensive care have resulted in disparities in quality and patient experience among women seen in VA. VA policy action providing guidance on delivery of compre...

Detailed Description

Gaps in delivery of gender-sensitive comprehensive care have resulted in disparities in quality and patient experience among women seen in VA. VA policy action providing guidance on delivery of compre...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Unit of randomization: VA healthcare facilities (VA medical center or community-based outpatient clinic)
  • Subset of VA healthcare facilities identified as low-performing on the basis of composites of access/wait times, gender disparities in quality, e.g.:
  • depression screening
  • diabetic blood sugar control
  • Presence/absence of VA-required structural facets of care, e.g.:
  • designated women's health providers
  • mammography coordinator
  • gynecology access
  • Women Veteran Program Manager (WVPM)
  • 3:1 staffing ratio for PACT teamlets
  • Key Stakeholder Inclusion Criteria (qualitative interviews):
  • Veteran Integrated Service Network (VISN) level leader (Director or Chief Medical Officer)
  • VISN level WVPM Lead, VISN level primary care director, VISN level QI/system redesign lead)
  • VA facility leader (Director or other member of senior leadership)
  • Chief of Staff
  • primary care director
  • women's health medical director
  • WVPM
  • local EBQI champion
  • other key personnel
  • Provider/Staff Survey
  • Primary care providers (medical doctor \[MD\], doctor of osteopathy \[DO\], nurse practitioner \[NP\], physician assistant \[PA\]) delivering primary care in general primary care and/or women's health clinics
  • PACT teamlet members (registered nurse \[RN\] care managers, licensed vocational nurse/licensed practical nurse \[LVN/LPN\]/health technicians, and clerks)
  • larger PACT team members, e.g.:
  • social workers
  • dieticians
  • health coaches
  • integrated mental health

Exclusion

  • Facility-level exclusion: Facilities not identified in the initial sample of VA facilities (sample not renewed over time).

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 9 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

November 30 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

21 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03238417

Start Date

January 9 2017

End Date

November 30 2020

Last Update

July 27 2023

Active Locations (25)

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1

Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System West Campus, Montgomery, AL

Montgomery, Alabama, United States, 36109

2

Northern Arizona VA Health Care System, Prescott, AZ

Prescott, Arizona, United States, 86313

3

VA Northern California Health Care System, Mather, CA

Sacramento, California, United States, 95655

4

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA

Sepulveda, California, United States, 91343