The Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium: Inception of a Multicenter Collaborative to Improve Cardiovascular Care

Steven M. Bradley, Srinath Adusumalli, Amit P. Amin, William B. Borden, Sandeep R. Das, William E. Downey, Joseph E. Ebinger, Joy Gelbman, Ty J. Gluckman, Abhinav Goyal, Divya Gupta, Umesh N. Khot, Andrew E. Levy, R. Kannan Mutharasan, Pam Rush, Craig E. Strauss, Satya Shreenivas, P. Michael Ho

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Abstract

Despite decades of improvement in the quality and outcomes of cardiovascular care, significant gaps remain. Existing quality improvement strategies are often limited in scope to specific clinical conditions and episodic care. Health services and outcomes research is essential to inform gaps in care but rarely results in the development and implementation of care delivery solutions. Although individual health systems are engaged in projects to improve the quality of care delivery, these efforts often lack a robust study design or implementation evaluation that can inform generalizability and further dissemination. Aligning the work of health care systems and health services and outcomes researchers could serve as a strategy to overcome persisting gaps in cardiovascular quality and outcomes. We describe the inception of the Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium that seeks to rapidly improve cardiovascular care by (1) developing, implementing, and evaluating multicenter quality improvement projects using innovative care designs; (2) serving as a resource for quality improvement and care innovation partners; and (3) establishing a presence within existing quality improvement and care innovation structures. Success of the collaborative will be defined by projects that result in changes to care delivery with demonstrable impacts on the quality and outcomes of care across multiple health systems. Furthermore, insights gained from implementation of these projects across sites in Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium will inform and promote broad dissemination for greater impact.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)E006753
JournalCirculation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021

Keywords

  • benchmarking
  • innovation diffusion
  • outcome and process assessment (health care)
  • outcomes research
  • patient satisfaction
  • quality improvement
  • registries

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