The Impact of Project ECHO on Participant and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

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Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) uses tele-education to bridge knowledge gaps between specialists at academic health centers and primary care providers from remote areas. It has been implemented to address multiple medical conditions. The authors examined evidence of the impact of all Project ECHO programs on participant and patient outcomes.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Acad Med

Title: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1938-808X

ISSN (Print): 1040-2446

Publication date (Electronic): Oct 2016

Volume: 91

Issue: 10

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[1 ] C. Zhou is a psychiatry resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.A. Crawford is assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, and director of psychiatry outreach and telepsychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.E. Serhal is manager, ECHO Ontario Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.P. Kurdyak is associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, medical director, Performance Improvement, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and assistant professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.S. Sockalingam is associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, and deputy psychiatrist-in-chief, Toronto General Hospital and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001328

PubMed ID: 27489018

SO-VID: 817660fd-522f-49ac-875d-22996765e25f

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