WI-INTUIT: Bridging Community Based Continence Promotion and Primary Care

Description

This quality improvement research project is one of five across the country funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) through the EvidenceNOW Managing Urinary Incontinence initiative titled: “Improving Nonsurgical Treatment of Urinary Incontinence among women in Primary Care.” The purpose of this national initiative is to identify implementation strategies that best support primary care practices in delivering high quality care for urinary incontinence. Components of high-quality care including screening, diagnosing, and offering non-surgical first-line treatments for urinary incontinence in women, all of which already occur in primary care.

The WI-INTUIT quality improvement project compares two implementation strategies to implement UI-Assist, an intervention to support primary care practices in increasing their rates of screening, diagnosing, and treating urinary incontinence in their adult female patients: (1) streamlined practice facilitation (SPF) and (2) streamlined practice facilitation in combination with partnership building (SPF+PB).