Practice Facilitation to Improve Diabetes Care in Primary Care: A Report From the EPIC Randomized Clinical Trial

W. Perry Dickinson, L. Miriam Dickinson, Paul A. Nutting, Caroline Bublitz Emsermann, B. Tutt, Benjamin F. Crabtree, Lawrence Fisher, Marjie Harbrecht, Allyson Gottsman, D. R. F. West

The Annals of Family Medicine · 2014 · 76 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

Traditional CQI interventions are effective at improving measures of the quality of diabetes care, but may not improve practice change and work culture. Short-term practice facilitation based on RAP principles produced less improvement in quality measures than CQI or SD interventions and also did not produce sustained improvements in practice culture.

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