The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR): a programme protocol

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Background

In October 2008, the National Institute for Health Research launched nine new research projects to develop and investigate methods of translating research evidence into practice. Given the title Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), all involve collaboration between one or more universities and the local health service, but they are adopting different approaches to achieve translation.

Methods

The translation and implementation programme of this CLAHRC has been built around a pragmatic framework for undertaking research to address live concerns in the delivery of care, in partnership with the managers, practitioners, and patients of the provider organisations of the CLAHRC. Focused on long-term conditions, the constituent research themes are prevention, early detection, self-management, rehabilitation, and implementation. Individual studies have various designs, and include both randomised trials of new ways to deliver care and qualitative studies of, for example, means of identifying barriers to research translation. A mix of methods will be used to evaluate the CLAHRC as a whole, including use of public health indicators, social research methods, and health economics.

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This paper describes one of the nine collaborations, that of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland. Drawing a distinction between translation as an organising principle for healthcare providers and implementation as a discrete activity, this collaboration is built on a substantial programme of applied research intended to create both research generation and research use capacity in provider organisations. The collaboration in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland has potential to provide evidence on how partnerships between practitioners, patients, and researchers can improve the transfer of evidence into practice.

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Effect of the transformation of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System on the quality of care.

K Kizer, M. Jha, J Perlin … (2003)

In the mid-1990s, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system initiated a systemwide reengineering to, among other things, improve its quality of care. We sought to determine the subsequent change in the quality of health care and to compare the quality with that of the Medicare fee-for-service program. Using data from an ongoing performance-evaluation program in the VA, we evaluated the quality of preventive, acute, and chronic care. We assessed the change in quality-of-care indicators from 1994 (before reengineering) through 2000 and compared the quality of care with that afforded by the Medicare fee-for-service system, using the same indicators of quality. In fiscal year 2000, throughout the VA system, the percentage of patients receiving appropriate care was 90 percent or greater for 9 of 17 quality-of-care indicators and exceeded 70 percent for 13 of 17 indicators. There were statistically significant improvements in quality from 1994-1995 through 2000 for all nine indicators that were collected in all years. As compared with the Medicare fee-for-service program, the VA performed significantly better on all 11 similar quality indicators for the period from 1997 through 1999. In 2000, the VA outperformed Medicare on 12 of 13 indicators. The quality of care in the VA health care system substantially improved after the implementation of a systemwide reengineering and, during the period from 1997 through 2000, was significantly better than that in the Medicare fee-for-service program. These data suggest that the quality-improvement initiatives adopted by the VA in the mid-1990s were effective. Copyright 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society

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The role of organizational research in implementing evidence-based practice: QUERI Series

Elizabeth Yano (2008)

Background Health care organizations exert significant influence on the manner in which clinicians practice and the processes and outcomes of care that patients experience. A greater understanding of the organizational milieu into which innovations will be introduced, as well as the organizational factors that are likely to foster or hinder the adoption and use of new technologies, care arrangements and quality improvement (QI) strategies are central to the effective implementation of research into practice. Unfortunately, much implementation research seems to not recognize or adequately address the influence and importance of organizations. Using examples from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), we describe the role of organizational research in advancing the implementation of evidence-based practice into routine care settings. Methods Using the six-step QUERI process as a foundation, we present an organizational research framework designed to improve and accelerate the implementation of evidence-based practice into routine care. Specific QUERI-related organizational research applications are reviewed, with discussion of the measures and methods used to apply them. We describe these applications in the context of a continuum of organizational research activities to be conducted before, during and after implementation. Results Since QUERI's inception, various approaches to organizational research have been employed to foster progress through QUERI's six-step process. We report on how explicit integration of the evaluation of organizational factors into QUERI planning has informed the design of more effective care delivery system interventions and enabled their improved "fit" to individual VA facilities or practices. We examine the value and challenges in conducting organizational research, and briefly describe the contributions of organizational theory and environmental context to the research framework. Conclusion Understanding the organizational context of delivering evidence-based practice is a critical adjunct to efforts to systematically improve quality. Given the size and diversity of VA practices, coupled with unique organizational data sources, QUERI is well-positioned to make valuable contributions to the field of implementation science. More explicit accommodation of organizational inquiry into implementation research agendas has helped QUERI researchers to better frame and extend their work as they move toward regional and national spread activities.

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Hospital use and survival among Veterans Affairs beneficiaries.

N. Wray, Jemima Collins, Lindsay N. Petersen … (2003)

Initiatives to reduce hospital care were part of the reorganization of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical care system undertaken in the mid-1990s. We examined changes in the use of VA health services and survival from 1994 through 1998 among VA beneficiaries with serious chronic diseases. We postulated that if access to hospital care was reduced too much, or if decreased hospital use was not offset by improvements in ambulatory care, urgent care visits would increase or survival rates would fall. We tracked changes in risk-adjusted VA bed-day rates, rates of medical visits, rates of visits for testing and consultation, and rates of urgent care visits per patient-year among VA beneficiaries in nine disease cohorts (a total of 342,300 beneficiaries). Trends in non-VA hospital use by VA beneficiaries 65 years of age or older who were enrolled in fee-for-service Medicare were also studied. VA and Medicare vital-status data were used to calculate one-year survival rates. From 1994 through 1998, VA bed-day rates fell by 50 percent, rates of medical-clinic visits and visits for testing and consultation increased moderately, and rates of urgent care visits fell by 35 percent. The sharp decline in the use of VA hospitals was not compensated for by increases in the use of Medicare-reimbursed non-VA hospital care by veterans eligible for both VA care and Medicare, and the use of non-VA hospitals actually declined in four cohorts. The survival rates were essentially unchanged over the study period. The marked decline in VA hospital use from 1994 through 1998 did not curtail access to needed services and was not associated with serious consequences for chronically ill VA beneficiaries. Copyright 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Implement Sci

Title: Implementation Science : IS

Publisher: BioMed Central

ISSN (Electronic): 1748-5908

Publication date Collection: 2009

Publication date (Electronic): 12 November 2009

Volume: 4

Page: 72

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[1 ]Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

[2 ]School of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

[3 ]Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust, Northampton, UK

[4 ]Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

[5 ]Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

[6 ]University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK

[7 ]NIHR CLAHRC for LNR, UK

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Publisher ID: 1748-5908-4-72

DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-4-72

PMC ID: 2780974

PubMed ID: 19906317

SO-VID: 0a94fa29-7a49-4ea5-9a3c-5efd63f94e08

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