Project ACTIVE a Clinical Intervention

The Project ACTIVE intervention was adapted to suit workflow demands of our busy inner-city clinic: (1) identify patients who could most benefit from improvements in adherence to evidence-based preventive care, (2) use a validated mathematical model to quantify and rank the estimated amount of health benefit that would arise from improved adherence to each USPSTF preventive care guideline, (3) communicate this information in a manner informed by risk communication studies relevant to patients from disparate cultural groups and with low literacy and numeracy, (4) engage the patient in a shared decision making process in which the patient identified which preventive health goals aimed to achieve, and (5) set particular action steps for the next visit that were congruent with these goals .