Type: PDF Document and Canvas Website

Level: Intermediate

Description: This is a PDF and link to a website that includes materials from a workshop on Dissemination and ​implementation in Health and Healthcare. “The workshop objective was to introduce participants to D&I concepts, strategies, and design principles, and to help participants formulate D&I research questions, develop D&I plans, and identify where to access D&I-specific resources. The workshop was designed to be relevant to health researchers, practitioners, and other professionals interested in D&I to improve health and healthcare…” (cited from the website).

Type: PDF Powerpoint Handout

Level: Basic

Description: This is a PDF hand-out of a presentation conducted by Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin, President and CEO of Clinical Directors Network, at the 2013 National Association of Community Health Centers Community Health Institute and Expo in Chicago, IL.  As a best-practice example, he discusses the infrastructure of this Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), Clinical Directors Network, and also a network of PBRNS, N2: Building a Network of Safety Net PBRNS, which is funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ, Grant # 1 P30-HS-021667). He describes how this infrastructure supports bottom-up and top-down approaches to translational research implementation within Health Centers across the nation. He also describes an example of research training for clinical leaders, conducted at Lutheran Family Health Centers, a program meant to facilitate the development of translational research within Health Center networks.

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NACHC CHI2013 Tools for Building Research Infrastructure at Health Centers

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: This article explains the different stages of formative evaluations.

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: “Efficient orthogonal design is a tool that must be used at the outset of a study that can be used to compare the effectiveness of different ways of deploying each component of a PCMH, as well as how the effects of individual components interact with one another.” www.pcmh.ahrq.gov

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: ”Cognitive task analysis (CTA) is a family of methods designed to reveal the thinking involved in performing tasks in real-world contexts. CTA can be used to uncover and describe key patterns, variations, opportunities for improvement, and leverage the “knowledge work”—not just the physical work—of primary care staff and clinicians implementing PCMH models.”

Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: “Anthropology explores human culture, behavior, and expression using an ethnographic approach, which employs multiple methods of data collection to construct a holistic and contextual view of the phenomena under study. It excels in uncovering unexpected insights by studying a topic in person, in situ, over time, and from diverse perspectives.” www.pcmh.ahrq.gov

Type: Article

Level: Basic

Description: “This overview provides an introduction to the PCMH Research Methods Series and introduces methods or approaches that have the potential to expand and refine understanding of the PCMH as a complex health care intervention and innovation.” www.pcmh.ahrq.gov

Type: Audio/video capture (60 min in duration)

Level: Advanced

Description:   The topic of this webinar is “How engaged are we? Measuring community engagement and partnership”. This webinar provides detailed models and strategies to implement and monitor community engagement and Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR).

Type: Audio/video capture (6 min in duration)

Level: Basic

Description: This video describes a example of integrating Health IT systems into practice. The described project’s goal was to use Health IT to facilitate information movement and combat care fragmentation.  The project monitored 6,000 patients with complex health needs, and, when care was delivered, a multi-prong approach notified all parties involved.

Type: Audio/video capture (mp4; 14min in duration)

Level: Intermediate

Description: This session aims to capture a real-world example of a collaborative, community-engaged research partnership. We hope that viewers are able to use these examples as a model in developing their own Community-Based Participatory Research (CPBR) projects.

The featured CBPR Project is entitled “Establishing a Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) Surveillance Network”, funded by: The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS); Pilot Grant and Administrative Supplement (NIH-NCATS Grant # 8-UL1-TR000043). This project is a collaboration between the Rockefeller University, multiple Community Health Centers (Urban health Plan, Manhattan Physicians Group 125th Street, Open Door Family Health Center, Hudson River Health Care, Brookdale Family Care Center, and Manhattan Physicians Group 95th Street), and multiple Practice Based Research Networks (Alliance of Chicago, Clinical Directors Network, Inc. of New York City and STARNet, San Antonio Texas). All members are engaged and participate onsite or virtually.

Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin President and CEO of Clinical Directors Network, Inc. leads a discussion about patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). He talks about the definition of PCOR, how PCOR relates to clinical outcomes, and engages the group in discussion about how to incorporate patient-centered outcomes into the CA-MRSA research project. CHC are engaged in exploring outcomes to investigate taken directly from their patient’s experiences at the FQHC. This is used to drive the research development process.