Partnering to Improve Outcomes

Partnering with Parents: Promising Approaches to Improve Reunification Outcomes for Children in Foster Care

Bridging the ‘Two Cultures’ of Research and Service: Can Complexity Theory Help?; Comment on “Experience of Health Leadership in Partnering With University-Based Researchers in Canada – A Call to ‘Re-imagine’ Research”

This commentary addresses Bowen et al’s empirical study of perspectives of Canadian healthcare staff towards research and their call for multi-faceted action to improve misalignments in the system. This commentary argues that tensions and misalignments between research and service are inherent and can never be eradicated. Building on previous work by Lanham et al, I pro...

Home diuretic protocol for heart failure: partnering with home health to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions.

CONTEXT The management of heart failure (HF) is challenging, with high rates of readmission and no single solution. MaineHealth, a health care system serving southern Maine, has shown initial success with home health nurses partnering with physicians in the management of complex patients with HF using the MaineHealth Home Diuretic Protocol (HDP). OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that augmented diuret...

Patterns in PARTNERing across Public Health Collaboratives

Inter-organizational networks represent one of the most promising practice-based approaches in public health as a way to attain resources, share knowledge, and, in turn, improve population health outcomes. However, the interdependencies and effectiveness related to the structure, management, and costs of these networks represents a critical item to be addressed. The objective of this research i...

Health coaching: a new and exciting technique to enhance patient self-management and improve outcomes.

Health coaching is quickly emerging as a new approach of partnering with patients to enhance self-management strategies for the purpose of preventing exacerbations of chronic illness and supporting lifestyle change. Medicare is now pilot testing this approach for patients with congestive heart failure and diabetes. With acute care hospitalization an outcome of great interest to us all, health c...

Partnering to improve hospital-physician office communication through implementing care transitions best practices.

Quality Partners of Rhode Island, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, was awarded a Medicare contract to implement a three-year care transitions program. The Safe Transitions Project aimed to improve the safety of patient care transitions by translating effective patient and provider interventions into sustainable systems change. After testing evidencebased interventions locally and ...