Monthly Archives: July 2013

Formative Evaluation: Fostering Real-Time Adaptions and Refinements to Improve the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Interventions

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

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

Efficient Orthogonal Designs: Testing the Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Components

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

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

Cognitive Task Analysis: Methods to Improve Patient-Centered Medical Home Models by Understanding and Leveraging its Knowledge Work

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

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.”

Anthropological Approaches: Uncovering Unexpected Insights About the Implementation and Outcomes of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

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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

Expanding the Toolbox: Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

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

Advanced Topics in Implementation Science Research

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Source: NCI (National Cancer Institute)

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).

 

Health IT Success Story: Using IT to Fight Care Fragmentation (Improving Care Transitions for Patients with Complex Health Needs through Decision Support)

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Source: AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

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.