Understanding effective care management implementation in primary care

"Although care management can introduce many new changes into the delivery of primary care clinical practice, implementing it successfully as a new complex intervention is possible."

Understanding effective care management implementation in primary care: a macrocognition perspective analysis
JS Holtrop, G Potworowski, L Fitzpatrick, A Kowalk, LA Green
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:122

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The role of team climate in improving the quality of chronic care delivery

"The implementation of transition programmes requires a supportive and stimulating team climate to enhance the quality of chronic care delivery to chronically ill adolescents."

The role of team climate in improving the quality of chronic care delivery: a longitudinal study among professionals working with chronically ill adolescents in transitional care programmes
JM Cramm, MMH Strating, AP Nieboer
BMJ Open, 2014, 4:e005369

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Involving patients in setting priorities for healthcare improvement

"Patient involvement can change priorities driving healthcare improvement at the population level."

Involving patients in setting priorities for healthcare improvement: a cluster randomized trial
A Boivin, P Lehoux, R Lacombe, J Burgers, R Grol
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:24

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Sustaining and spreading self-management support

"Changing the way healthcare is delivered so that patients are supported to more effectively manage their longterm condition is also hard – it involves redefining the role of professionals and patients and putting in place processes and infrastructure that support new ways of working."

Sustaining and spreading self-management support: lessons from Co-creating Health phase 2
Health Foundation
September 2013

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Care management programs to reduce hospital admissions and readmissions

"Three case studies illustrate the potential of care management programs to address this problem by improving care coordination and transitions among high-risk patients."

Gaining ground: care management programs to reduce hospital admissions and readmissions among chronically ill and vulnerable patients
D McCarthy, A Cohen, M Bihrle Johnson
The Commonwealth Fund
January 2013

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Pay-for-performance in disease management

"The objectives of this paper are therefore to provide an overview of P4P schemes used to stimulate delivery of chronic care through disease management and to provide insight into their effects on healthcare quality and costs."

Pay-for-performance in disease management: a systematic review of the literature
SR de Bruin, CA Baan, JN Struijs
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:272

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The role of networks in healthcare

In this issue brief, researchers describe how networks helped community health centres to use electronic health records to improve chronic and preventive care and the barriers they faced.


The role of networks in improving quality of electronic records in community health centres.
RH Miller, CE West
The Commonwealth Fund
August 2011

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Measuring organizational readiness for knowledge translation in chronic care

The authors of this paper are aiming to develop an evidence-based, comprehensive, and valid instrument to measure organisation readiness for knowledge translation in healthcare.

Measuring organizational readiness for knowledge translation in chronic care
MP Gagnon, J Labarthe, F Legare, M Ouimet, CA Estabrooks, G Roch, EK Ghandour, J Grimshaw
Implementation Science, 2011, 6:72

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