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- Title
Impact of a Population Health Management Intervention on Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Control.
- Authors
James, Aisha; Berkowitz, Seth A.; Ashburner, Jeffrey M.; Chang, Yuchiao; Atlas, Steven J.; Horn, Daniel M.; O'Keefe, Sandra M.
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Healthcare systems use population health management programs to improve the quality of cardiovascular disease care. Adding a dedicated population health coordinator (PHC) who identifies and reaches out to patients not meeting cardiovascular care goals to these programs may help reduce disparities in cardiovascular care.<bold>Objective: </bold>To determine whether a program that used PHCs decreased racial/ethnic disparities in LDL cholesterol and blood pressure (BP) control.<bold>Design: </bold>Retrospective difference-in-difference analysis.<bold>Participants: </bold>Twelve thousdand five hundred fifty-five primary care patients with cardiovascular disease (cohort for LDL analysis) and 41,183 with hypertension (cohort for BP analysis).<bold>Intervention: </bold>From July 1, 2014-December 31, 2014, 18 practices used an information technology (IT) system to identify patients not meeting LDL and BP goals; 8 practices also received a PHC. We examined whether having the PHC plus IT system, compared with having the IT system alone, decreased racial/ethnic disparities, using difference-in-difference analysis of data collected before and after program implementation.<bold>Main Measures: </bold>Meeting guideline concordant LDL and BP goals.<bold>Key Results: </bold>At baseline, there were racial/ethnic disparities in meeting LDL (p = 0.007) and BP (p = 0.0003) goals. Comparing practices with and without a PHC, and accounting for pre-intervention LDL control, non-Hispanic white patients in PHC practices had improved odds of LDL control (OR 1.20 95% CI 1.09-1.32) compared with those in non-PHC practices. Non-Hispanic black (OR 1.15 95% CI 0.80-1.65) and Hispanic (OR 1.29 95% CI 0.66-2.53) patients saw similar, but non-significant, improvements in LDL control. For BP control, non-Hispanic white patients in PHC practices (versus non-PHC) improved (OR 1.13 95% CI 1.05-1.22). Non-Hispanic black patients (OR 1.17 95% CI 0.94-1.45) saw similar, but non-statistically significant, improvements in BP control, but Hispanic (OR 0.90 95% CI 0.59-1.36) patients did not. Interaction testing confirmed that disparities did not decrease (p = 0.73 for LDL and p = 0.69 for BP).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The population health management intervention did not decrease disparities. Further efforts should explicitly target improving both healthcare equity and quality. Clinical Trials #: NCT02812303 ( ClinicalTrials.gov ).
- Subjects
POPULATION health management; HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR disease diagnosis; ETHNIC discrimination
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2018, Vol 33, Issue 4, p463
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-017-4227-3