A Hospital-Randomized Controlled Trial of an Educational Quality Improvement Intervention in Rural and Small Community Hospitals in Texas Following Implementation of Information Technology
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in American Journal of Medical Quality
- Vol. 22 (6), 418-427
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1062860607307995
Abstract
Rural and small community hospitals typically have few resources and little experience with quality improvement (QI) and, on average, demonstrate poorer quality of care than larger facilities. Formalized QI education shows promise in improving quality, but little is known about its effect in rural and small community hospitals. The authors describe a randomized controlled trial assigning 47 rural and small community Texas hospitals to such a program (n = 23) or to the control group (n = 24), following provision of a Web-based quality benchmarking and case review tool. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Core Measures composite scores for congestive heart failure (CHF) and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), using Texas Medical Foundation data collected via the QualityNet Exchange system, are compared for the groups, for 2 years postintervention. Given the estimated baseline rates for the CHF (68%) and CAP (66%) composites, the cohort enables the detection of 14% and 11% differences (α = .05; power = 0.8), respectively. (Am J Med Qual 2007;22:418-427)Keywords
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