A Quality Improvement Process to Support Delivery of Cardiovascular Care in Community Mental Health Organizations

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Dyslipidemias; Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Other: Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04696653

IRB00269855

P50MH115842 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot study will examine whether an implementation strategy will improve delivery of evidence-based care for cardiovascular risk factors for people with serious mental illness.

Full description

In this pilot study, the investigators will work with health home programs and pilot test an adapted Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) implementation strategy to improve mental health providers' delivery of evidence-based cardiovascular risk factor care for hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes for individuals with serious mental illness. The project will also characterize implementation processes, organizational and provider-level factors, and cardiovascular disease risk factor care and control.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Study population 1:

• Psychiatric rehabilitation program and health home team staff, including providers and leadership are those employed by the psychiatric rehabilitation program or health home program.
• English-speaking.

Study population 2:

• People with serious mental illness participating in psychiatric rehabilitation health home programs.
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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85 participants in 1 patient group

Comprehensive unit based safety (CUSP) intervention arm

Other group

Description:

CUSP is a quality improvement strategy developed by the Johns Hopkins University Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality that is used to improve care delivery.

Treatment:

Other: Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP)