Annals of family medicine
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Annals of family medicine · Aug 2019
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyA Randomized Trial of External Practice Support to Improve Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Primary Care.
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of adding various forms of enhanced external support to practice facilitation on primary care practices' clinical quality measure (CQM) performance. ⋯ Although we found no significant differences in CQM performance across study arms, the ability of a practice to reach a target level of performance may be enhanced by adding both educational outreach visits and shared learning to practice facilitation.