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Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT)

Award Number: U18HS028736
ORGANIZATION: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY
OPDIV: AHRQ
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: KDA (KNOWLEDGE/DEVELOPMENT/APPLICATION)

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Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT) - The Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Service Network (VISN-7) is our targeted region for this proposal, named “Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT)” as part of the Improving Nonsurgical Treatment of Urinary Incontinence among women in Primary Care (INTUIT-PC). Our overarching goal is to improve access to evidence-based nonsurgical UI treatment for women Veterans using the most effective remote delivery modality in the Southeast region of the U.S. In our first aim, we will compare two models: our mHealth UI modality alone and our mHealth UI model combined with clinician expertise delivered via clinical video telehealth (CVT) to improve UI symptoms at the patient level. With leverage from our current clinical trial infrastructure that utilizes these two models, our proposed study will incorporate a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) design to determine the optimal model for remote delivery of nonsurgical UI treatment for UI symptom improvement. In our second aim, we propose an implementation strategy of practice facilitation, to improve awareness and adherence to evidence-based guidelines on nonsurgical UI treatments at the practice level. We will employ a Type 1 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation design to assess the effectiveness of our mHealth intervention, while using the Reach, Efficacy/effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework to guide our practice level implementation approach. For our third mixed-methodology aim, we seek to explore women Veterans’ and providers’ perceptions of key factors that may influence future remote UI treatment scalability for local, regional, and national dissemination. PURSUIT aims to target 62 primary care practices that treat over 50,000 women Veterans. Practices will be randomized in clusters to receive the interactive mHealth UI application non- surgical UI treatment modality with or without additional clinical UI expertise delivered via telehealth. All primary care practices will receive practice facilitation with a PURSUIT toolkit that includes (1) 1-2 visits with a practice facilitator engaging practices through virtual group sessions and one on-site visit (if allowed); (2) Mobile-health or mHealth Application Training (MAT) training: MAT training will be offered through in-person academic detailing, online resources, and ongoing support via email or office hours with project staff and experts; 3) Online Resource Hub: The online resource hub will be available throughout project implementation, and e-learning modules will serve as the structural base for virtual practice facilitation sessions; and (4) Health information technology (HIT) assistance: Project staff will offer support in developing UI registries for population management, quality improvement, and data reporting through the mHealth nonsurgical UI application. Our future goal is to disseminate the most effective modality for delivering nonsurgical UI treatment for women Veterans nationally within the Veterans Healthcare Administration.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	3	2/7/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $824,852 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	002	3	8/16/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	001	3	5/23/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	3	1/25/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$824,852
														Subtotal = $824,852

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $824,363 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	2	1/27/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$824,363
														Subtotal = $824,363

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $921,761 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes	000	1	2/1/2022	NEW	$921,761
														Subtotal = $921,761

Grand Total All Awards = $2,570,976

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Improving Primary Care Understanding of Resources and Screening for Urinary Incontinence to Enhance Treatment (PURSUIT)

Award Number: U18HS028736

ORGANIZATION: AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

OPDIV: AHRQ

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: KDA (KNOWLEDGE/DEVELOPMENT/APPLICATION)

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