NCT04696653

A Quality Improvement Process to Support Delivery of Cardiovascular Care in Community Mental Health Organizations

Using an Innovative Quality Improvement Process to Increase Delivery of Evidence-based Cardiovascular Risk Factor Care in Community Mental Health Organizations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This pilot study will examine whether an implementation strategy will improve delivery of evidence-based care for cardiovascular risk factors for people with serious mental illness.

Detailed description

In this pilot study, the investigators will work with health home programs and pilot test an adapted Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) implementation strategy to improve mental health providers' delivery of evidence-based cardiovascular risk factor care for hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes for individuals with serious mental illness. The project will also characterize implementation processes, organizational and provider-level factors, and cardiovascular disease risk factor care and control.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Hypertension
• Dyslipidemias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP)	CUSP is a quality improvement strategy developed by the Johns Hopkins University Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality that is used to improve care delivery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-24
• Primary completion: 2022-11-21
• Completion: 2023-04-05
• First posted: 2021-01-06
• Last updated: 2025-09-26
• Results posted: 2025-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States