| Baylor College of Medicine, Texas
From left to right—(Back Row): Krystal Ward-Carter, Mark Kuebeler, LeChauncy Woodard; (Front Row): Kate Simpson, Laura A. Petersen
Grantee Name
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas
Project Title
Does Pay for Performance Improve the Quality of Hypertension Care for Black Patients? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Project Description
There is a dearth of randomized trials and high quality (controlled) observational studies on the effect of pay for performance on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. This project will determine the effectiveness of pay for performance in improving the quality of hypertension care in black patients, who experience an excess burden of hypertensive disease compared to other racial or ethnic groups. This study represents a unique opportunity to leverage the resources of the parent study -- a randomized controlled trial funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which evaluates the effectiveness of financial incentives in improving hypertension care -- in order to determine if health care providers who receive financial incentives for providing guideline-based hypertension care are more likely than providers who receive no such incentives to prescribe appropriate anti-hypertensive medications to and achieve guideline-recommended blood pressure goals in black patients.
Contact:
Kate L. Simpson (ksimpson@bcm.edu)
Websites:
http://www.hsrd.houston.med.va.gov
http://10.133.50.16/
Principal Investigator:
Laura A. Petersen, MD, MPH
Team Members:
LeChauncy Woodard, MD, MPH
Mark Kuebeler, MS
Kate Simpson, MPH
Krystal Ward-Carter, BS | 
