Evaluating Evidence-Based Quality Improvement of Comprehensive Women's Health Care Implementation in Low-Performing VAs

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Gaps in delivery of gender-sensitive comprehensive care have resulted in disparities in quality and patient experience among women seen in VA. VA policy action providing guidance on delivery of comprehensive healthcare services for women Veterans was disseminated nationally in 2010, followed by annual assessments and site visits evaluating local VA efforts. While substantial inroads have been made, policy implementation, even when leveraged by field-based women's health leaders, has not been uniformly successful in achieving delivery of comprehensive care by designated providers in gender-sensitive care environments that ensure women's privacy, dignity and safety, all tenets of the original guidance and the updated directive (2017). Building on prior effectiveness of an evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) approach to tailoring VA's medical home model -- Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) -- to the needs of women Veterans, VA leaders in women's health adopted EBQI to help low-performing VAs systematically improve services. The objectives of the resulting Partnered Evaluation Initiative (PEI) funded by VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative and VA Office of Women's Health were: 1. To evaluate barriers and facilitators to achieving delivery of comprehensive women's health care in the identified low-performing VAs; 2. To evaluate effectiveness of EBQI in supporting low-performing VA facilities achieve improved organizational features, provider/staff attitudes, quality of care, and patient experiences among women Veteran patients; and, 3. To evaluate contextual factors, local implementation processes, and organizational changes in the participating facilities over time.

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