Quality Improvement in Coronary Care: Analysis of Sustainability and Impact on Adjacent Clinical Measures After a Swedish Controlled, Multicenter Quality Improvement Collaborative
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Background: Quality Improvement in Coronary Care, a Swedish multicenter, controlled quality‐improvement ( QI ) collaborative, has shown significant improvements in adherence to national guidelines for acute myocardial infarction, as well as improved clinical outcome. The objectives of this report were to describe the sustainability of the improvements after withdrawal of study support and a consolidation period of 3 months and to report whether improvements were disseminated to treatments and diagnostic procedures other than those primarily targeted. Methods and Results: Multidisciplinary teams from 19 Swedish hospitals were educated in basic QI methodologies. Another 19 matched hospitals were included as blinded controls. All evaluations were made on the hospital level, and data were obtained from a national quality registry, Swedish Register of Information and Knowledge About Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admissions (RIKS‐HIA). Sustainability indicators consisted of use of angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors, lipid‐lowering therapy, clopidogrel, low‐molecular weight heparin, and coronary angiography. Dissemination indicators were use of echocardiography, stress tests, and reperfusion therapy; time delays; and length of stay. At the reevaluation period of 6 months, the improvements at the QI intervention hospitals were sustained in all indicators but 1 (angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitor). Between the 2 measurements, the control group improved significantly in all but 1 indicator (angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitor). However, at the second measurement, the absolute adherence rates of the intervention hospitals were still numerically higher in all 5 indicators, and significantly so in 1 (clopidogrel). No significant changes were observed for the dissemination indicators. Conclusions: The combination of a systematic QI collaborative with a national, interactive quality registry might lead to substantial and sustained improvements in the quality of acute myocardial infarction care. However, to achieve disseminated improvements in adjacent clinical measures, those adjacent measures probably should be made explicit before any QI intervention.
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- Authors
- Carlhed, R., Bellman, C., Bojestig, M., Bojö, L., Peterson, A., Lindahl, B., & the Quality Improvement in Coronary Care (QUICC) Study Group
- Affiliations
- Karlstad Central Hospital (SE)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Region Jönköpings län (SE)
- Venue
- Journal of the American Heart Association
- Published
- 2012-08-06
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- e000737-e000737
- ISSN
- 2047-9980 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3487355
- OpenAlex
- W2099595999
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 2.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Journal of the American Heart Association (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Healthcare Quality and Management
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Keywords
- quality improvement, acute myocardial infarction, coronary care, sustainability of quality improvement, guideline adherence, quality register, clopidogrel, lipid-lowering therapy, low molecular weight heparin, coronary angiography, echocardiography, stress testing, reperfusion therapy, length of hospital stay, time delay
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