Characteristics of Facilities With Early and Rapid Ustekinumab Adoption for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Cohen-Mekelburg, Shirley; Van, Tony; Berinstein, Jeffrey A; Yu, Xianshi; Costa, Deena Kelly; Wallace, Beth I; Saini, Sameer; Admon, Andrew J et al. · Am J Gastroenterol · 2023

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

To examine which facility characteristics, including teamwork, are associated with early or rapid inflammatory bowel disease-related ustekinumab adoption. We examined the association between ustekinumab adoption and the characteristics of 130 Veterans Affairs facilities. Mean ustekinumab adoption increased by 3.9% from 2016 to 2018 and was higher in urban compared with rural facilities (β = 0.03, P = 0.033) and among facilities with more teamwork (β = 0.11, P = 0.041). Compared with nonearly adopters, early adopters were more likely be high-volume facilities (46% vs 19%, P = 0.001). Facility variation in medication adoption provides an opportunity for improving inflammatory bowel disease care through targeted dissemination strategies to improve medication uptake.

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