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Concurrent Peer Review to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Minority Patients

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What intervention is being evaluated?

Concurrent Peer Review (CPR) is innovative, but practical.  It incorporates a visit from a doctor’s clinical peer during a patient visit to review the diagnosis and treatment plan to ensure quality health care is provided to the patient. These visits are designed to focus physician and patient attention on optimizing cardiovascular and/or diabetes management and disease control at the point care is received.  The intervention minimizes competing clinical demands and clinical “inertia”.

Where is this intervention taking place?

A Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that serves the northwest and southwest quadrants of Rochester, New York.

Partnering Organizations:
Westside Health Services, Inc. (Lead Organization)
University of Rochester

How will this intervention be evaluated?

Patients will be randomly assigned one CPR visit with a physician other than their primary care physician. The primary study outcome will include control of hypertension, diabetes, and lipids. Secondary outcomes will include a set of clinical process measures that improve cardiovascular and diabetes care.  

Principal Investigators:
Melissa Brown, MD
Ellen Volpe, MS, NP

For More Information

Please Contact:
Ellen Volpe, MS, NP
ellen_volpe@urmc.rochester.edu

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