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Implementation of new clinical programs in the VHA healthcare system: the importance of early collaboration between clinical leadership and research.

Wu RR, Kinsinger LS, Provenzale D, King HA, Akerly P, Barnes LK, Datta SK, Grubber JM, Katich N, McNeil RB, Monte R, Sperber NR, Atkins D, Jackson GL. Implementation of new clinical programs in the VHA healthcare system: the importance of early collaboration between clinical leadership and research. Journal of general internal medicine. 2014 Dec 1; 29 Suppl 4:825-30.

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Abstract:

Collaboration between policy, research, and clinical partners is crucial to achieving proven quality care. The Veterans Health Administration has expended great efforts towards fostering such collaborations. Through this, we have learned that an ideal collaboration involves partnership from the very beginning of a new clinical program, so that the program is designed in a way that ensures quality, validity, and puts into place the infrastructure necessary for a reliable evaluation. This paper will give an example of one such project, the Lung Cancer Screening Demonstration Project (LCSDP). We will outline the ways that clinical, policy, and research partners collaborated in design, planning, and implementation in order to create a sustainable model that could be rigorously evaluated for efficacy and fidelity. We will describe the use of the Donabedian quality matrix to determine the necessary characteristics of a quality program and the importance of the linkage with engineering, information technology, and clinical paradigms to connect the development of an on-the-ground clinical program with the evaluation goal of a learning healthcare organization. While the LCSDP is the example given here, these partnerships and suggestions are salient to any healthcare organization seeking to implement new scientifically proven care in a useful and reliable way.




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