83
Participants
Start Date
February 28, 2007
Primary Completion Date
October 31, 2011
Study Completion Date
September 30, 2012
Physician-level financial incentives
Enrolled physician participants are eligible to receive financial incentives and audit and feedback reports based on their performance during a 4-month interval on the hypertension care study outcomes.
Practice-level financial incentives
Enrolled practices (physician physicians and non-physician primary care personnel) are eligible to receive financial incentives and audit and feedback reports based on the performance of the practice during a 4-month interval on the hypertension care study outcomes.
Physician- and practice-level financial incentives
Enrolled participants are eligible to receive financial incentives and audit and feedback reports based on performance during a 4-month interval on the hypertension care study outcomes. This arm tests the effect of combined financial incentives (physician-level incentives and practice-level incentives).
VA Medical Center, Augusta, Augusta
VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Birmingham
G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, Jackson
John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, Detroit
Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center, Saginaw
VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minneapolis
VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, Houston
VA Connecticut Health Care System (Newington), Newington
VA Medical Center, Jamaica Plain Campus, Boston
VA Medical Center, Providence, Providence
Ralph H Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, Charleston
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
NIH
VA Office of Research and Development
FED