| Primary | Gender-sensitive Care Environment | Multi-item scale score reflecting survey items (from The Women's Assessment Tool for Comprehensive Health (WATCH)) on availability of same-gender providers, availability of same-gender staff, privacy of physical layout, availability of privacy curtains, level of implementation of local culture campaign that values and treats Women Veterans with respect. The score ranges from 0 to 7, with a higher score reflecting greater gender-sensitive care environment. | One Women Veteran Program Manger per VA Medical Center responded to the survey about the site's Women's Health Program on WATCH. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | score on a scale | | 12-month change in gender-sensitive care environment | VA Medical Centers. | VA Medical Centers. | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. | | OG001 | Waitlist Controls | Waitlist controls will continue naturalistic routine care implementation of VHA directives and other guidance related to comprehensive women's health care. |
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| - OG0004.2± 2.3
- OG0013.3± 1.9
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| | Group IDs | Group Description | Statistical Method | Statistical Comment | P-Value | P-Value Comment | Parameter Type | Parameter Value | Dispersion Type | Dispersion Value | Confidence Interval Sides | Confidence Interval % | CI Lower Limit | CI Upper Limit | CI Lower Limit Comment | CI Upper Limit Comment | Estimate Comment | Tested Non-Inferiority | Non-Inferiority Type | Non-Inferiority Comment | Other Analysis Description |
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| | ANOVA | | 0.623 | P-value is from the interaction term between EBQI and time. | Mean Difference (Net) | -0.65 | Standard Error of the Mean | 1.32 | 2-Sided | 95 | -3.3 | 2.0 | | | | | Non-Inferiority | Analysis of Variance comparing change in outcome between EBQI and control from baseline to 12 month. | |
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| Primary | Gender-sensitive Care Environment | Multi-item scale score reflecting survey items (from The Women's Assessment Tool for Comprehensive Health (WATCH)) on availability of same-gender providers, availability of same-gender staff, privacy of physical layout, availability of privacy curtains, level of implementation of local culture campaign that values and treats Women Veterans with respect. The score ranges from 0 to 7, with a higher score reflecting greater gender-sensitive care environment. | One Women Veteran Program Manger per VA Medical Center responded to the survey about the site's Women's Health Program on WATCH. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | score on a scale | | 24-month change in gender-sensitive care environment | VA Medical Center | VA Medical Center | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Primary | Gender Awareness | A 12-item score reflecting primary care and women's health providers' and staff's awareness and knowledge of women Veterans' military background and healthcare needs. The score ranges from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting greater gender awareness. | Primary care and women's health providers and staff. The analysis was based on cases with non-missing outcome data. There are 19 missing cases in the EBQI arm and 39 missing in the control arm. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | score on a scale | | 12-month change in gender awareness among VA primary care and women's health providers and staff. | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Primary | Gender Awareness | A 12-item score reflecting primary care and women's health providers' and staff's awareness and knowledge of women Veterans' military roles and healthcare needs . The score ranges from 1 to 5 with higher scores reflecting greater gender awareness. | Primary care and women's health providers and staff. The analysis was based on cases with non-missing outcome data. There are 22 missing cases in the EBQI arm and 32 in the control arm. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | score on a scale | | 24-month change in gender awareness among VA primary care and women's health providers and staff | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Primary | Quality Improvement Experience | The count of quality improvement activities reported by providers and staff in primary care and women's health settings; including 1) training in quality improvement methods, 2) collaboration with other VA facilities to identify best practices, 3) working with Women Veteran Program Manager to identify and/or solve local problems in caring for women Veterans, 4) using of VA performance data, 5) using of VA survey data by gender, 6) working on a quality improvement project focused on women Veterans, 7) involving in small tests of change for quality improvement. | Primary care and women's health providers and staff at 21 VA Medical Centers. The analysis was based on cases with non-missing outcome data. There were 31 missing in the EBQI arm and 43 missing in the control arm. | Posted | | Count of Participants | | Participants | | 12-month change | | | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Primary | Quality Improvement Experience | The count of quality improvement activities reported by provider and staff in primary care and women's health settings; including 1) training in quality improvement methods [e.g., LEAN], 2) collaboration with other VA facilities to identify best practices, 3) working with Women Veteran Program Manager to identify and/or solve local problems in caring for women Veterans, 4) using of VA performance data, 5) using of VA survey data by gender, 6) working on a quality improvement project focused on women Veterans, 7) involving in small tests of change for quality improvement. | Primary care and women's health providers and staff at 21 VA Medical Centers. The analysis was based on cases with non-missing outcome data. There were 27 missing in the EBQI arm and 32 missing in the control arm. | Posted | | Count of Participants | | Participants | | 24-month change | | | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Gender-specific Preventive Care Delivery | Rate of cervical cancer screening using the VA External Peer Review Program (EPRP) chart-based quality metrics. | The analysis population size was extracted from EPRP reported denominators. EPRP randomly selected women patients aged 21-64and reviewed their charts for cervical cancer screening with a Pap test in the past three years. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of women patients | | 12-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Gender-specific Preventive Care Delivery | Rate of cervical cancer screening using the VA External Peer Review Program (EPRP) chart-based quality metrics. | The analysis population size is extracted from EPRP reported denominators. EPRP randomly selected women patients aged 21-64and reviewed their charts for cervical cancer screening with a Pap test in the past three years. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of women patients | | 24-month change in gender-specific preventive care delivery | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Accessibility of Care | Women Veterans' ratings of accessibility based on the Survey of Healthcare Experience of Patients (SHEP) program. The mean score is the percent of female patients who responded "always" to validated survey items measuring accessibility, the higher percentage representing better access. | The analysis population size is extracted from SHEP, which randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percent always | | 12-month change in accessibility | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Accessibility of Care | Women Veterans' ratings of accessibility from the Survey of Healthcare Experience of Patients (SHEP) program. The mean score is the percent of female patients who responded "always" to validated survey items measuring accessibility, the higher percentage representing better access. | The analysis population size is extracted from SHEP, which randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | Percent always | | 24-month change in accessibility | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Coordination of Care | Women Veterans' ratings of care coordination from the Survey of Healthcare Experience of Patients (SHEP) program. The mean score is the percent of female patients who responded "always" to validated survey items measuring care coordination, the higher percentage representing better coordination. | The analysis population size is unknown and reported at the level of the VA Medical Centers. SHEP randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percent always | | 12-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Coordination of Care | Women Veterans' ratings of care coordination from the Survey of Healthcare Experience of Patients (SHEP) program. The mean score is the percent of female patients who responded "always" to validated survey items measuring care coordination, the higher percentage representing better coordination. | The analysis population size is extracted SHEP, which randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percent always | | 24-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Gender-neutral Guideline-concordant Preventive Care Receipt | Percentage of women Veterans' obtaining recommended preventive care based on eligibility for service (e.g., meet eligibility guidelines for timely eye exams for diabetes, flu vaccination, colorectal cancer screening) using VA External Peer Review Program (EPRP) chart-based quality metrics. | The analysis population is extracted from EPRP, which randomly selected VA women patients aged 18-75 whose charts were reviewed for preventive care measures. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of female patients | | 12-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Gender-neutral Guideline-concordant Preventive Care Receipt | Percentage of women Veterans' obtaining recommended preventive care based on eligibility for service (e.g., meet eligibility guidelines for timely eye exams for diabetes, flu vaccination, colorectal cancer screening) using VA External Peer Review Program (EPRP) chart-based quality metrics | The analysis population is extracted from EPRP, which randomly selected women patients aged 18-75 whose charts were reviewed for preventive care metrics. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of female patients | | 24-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Assignment to a Designated Women's Health Provider or a Women's Health Primary Care Teams, Using Patient Aligned Care Teams Compass | Percentage of women Veterans assigned to a designated women's health provider in a general primary care and/or women's health primary care setting. | The analysis population was extracted from the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Compass, developed to meet the needs for VA PACT implementation. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of female patients | | 12-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Assignment to a Designated Women's Health Provider or a Women's Health Primary Care Teams, Using Patient Aligned Care Teams Compass | Percentage of women Veterans assigned to a designated women's health provider in a general primary care and/or women's health primary care setting | The analysis population was extracted from the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Compass, developed to meet the needs for VA PACT implementation. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of female patients | | 24-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Provider Rating | Percent of women patients who rated 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 to 10 for the provider rating question on the Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP). Higher scores are better. | Analysis population size was extracted SHEP, which randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of women patients | | 12 month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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| Secondary | Provider Rating | Percent of women patients who rated 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 to 10 for the provider rating question from the Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP). Higher scores are better. | The analysis population size is extracted SHEP, which randomly selected eligible patients who were invited to respond to the SHEP surveys by mail or online. | Posted | | Mean | Standard Deviation | percentage of women patients | | 24-month change | VA Medical Centers | VA Medical Centers | | ID | Title | Description |
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| OG000 | Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) | EBQI represents a multilevel stakeholder engaged top-down/bottom-up research-clinical partnership approach to systematically improving the design and implementation of local innovations adapted to local contexts. The EBQI contractor will (1) convene facility-level stakeholder meetings, (2) facilitate local facility-level QI team design meetings, (3) provide external practice facilitation through within and across facility QI collaboration calls, (4) provide formative QI data feedback and (5) provide QI training/education to local teams. Launched at participating VA facilities through advance key stakeholder interviews, in-person site visits, data review (e.g., structure and environment of care, gender disparities in quality and patient experience), QI training, technical support (e.g., QI project and measures development), additional formative feedback from the evaluation (e.g., provider/survey measure summaries), external and internal practice facilitation, and across-EBQI site collaboration calls. Local leadership, EBQI champions and QI teams develop and implement innovation projects aimed at improving prioritized quality targets related to women Veterans' health and healthcare needs as well as facility-level structural changes needed to improve compliance with VA guidelines. |
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