Open AccessStrategy Configurations Directly Linked to Higher Hepatitis C Virus Treatment Starts
Author(s) -
Vera Yakovchenko,
Edward J. Miech,
Matthew Chinman,
Maggie Chartier,
Rachel Gonzalez,
Jo Ann E. Kirchner,
Timothy R. Morgan,
Angela Park,
Byron J. Powell,
Enola K. Proctor,
David B. Ross,
Thomas J. Waltz,
Shari S. Rogal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001319
Subject(s) - blueprint , hepatitis c virus , veterans affairs , hepatitis c , consistency (knowledge bases) , medicine , outreach , computer science , virology , political science , virus , artificial intelligence , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) cares for more patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) than any other US health care system. We tracked the implementation strategies that VA sites used to implement highly effective new treatments for HCV with the aim of uncovering how combinations of implementation strategies influenced the uptake of the HCV treatment innovation. We applied Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs) to uncover causal dependencies and identify difference-making strategy configurations, and to distinguish higher from lower HCV treating sites.