PACT is a team-based model of care in which a team of health professionals, led by a provider, works collaboratively with the patient to provide for all of the patient's healthcare needs—or appropriately coordinates care with other qualified professionals. Issues being studied include methods of improving care coordination, how to automate point-of-care delivery, and point-of-care health literacy dissemination.
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Sullivan JL, Eisenstein R, Price T, Solimeo S, Shay K. Implementation of the Geriatric Patient Aligned Care Team Model in the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of American Board of Family Medicine. 2018 Jun 1; xx(xx): xx.
Cordasco KM. The ED-PACT Tool: Communicating Veterans' Care Needs After ED Visits. Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Demonstration Labs [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2017 Dec 20.
Edwards S, Kim L, Stockdale S. The Role of Practice Environment on PACT Provider and Staff Burnout: Implications for Leadership Support, Interprofessional Collaboration, and Patient Experience. Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Demonstration Labs [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2017 Jul 24.
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Identifying Best Strategies to Implement Patient-Centered Care This paper describes a qualitative study of four early Centers of Innovation (VA medical centers considered early leaders in patient-centered care [PCC]) to inform VA leadership about how best to catalyze and sustain change across the system. Investigators identified seven domains that impacted PCC implementation: 1) leadership, 2) patient and family engagement, 3) staff engagement, 4) focus on PC...
Date: March 7, 2018
Intervention to Lessen Low-Value Electronic Health Record Notifications Reduces Workload for Primary Care Physicians This study evaluated the impact of a national multi-component quality improvement program to reduce low-value electronic health record notifications. Findings showed that the program potentially saved 1.5 hours per week per primary care physician to enable higher-value work (based on prior estimates of 85 seconds to process each notification). The mean number of daily notifications per PCP decreas...
Date: March 5, 2018
Homeless Population-tailored Patient-Aligned Care Team Can Reduce Acute Care Services and Healthcare Costs This trial compared healthcare service use and cost outcomes among homeless Veterans enrolled in a traditional (not tailored to a homeless population) PACT with outcomes among Veterans enrolled in a homeless population–tailored H-PACT. Findings showed that annual costs per patient were significantly higher in the PACT group than the H-PACT group ($37,415 vs $28,036), and most cost savings came fro...
Date: February 15, 2018
Journal Features VA Research on Combating Multi-drug Resistant Organisms Posing Public Health Threat As an integrated healthcare system with acute care, community living centers, and community-based outpatient clinics, VA provides an ideal setting in which to study multi-drug resistant organism prevention and make a significant impact. Thus, a group of HSR&D infectious disease researchers and operations partners convened in Iowa City, IA, in September 2016. Conference participants included expert...
Date: February 8, 2018
More Patient-Aligned Care Team Components Translates to Improved Quality of Care for Veterans with Chronic Disease This study examined whether the extent to which clinics had implemented PACT components was associated with improvements in the quality of care for Veterans with chronic conditions over a four year period. Findings showed that over four years concurrent with PACT implementation, primary care clinics with the most PACT components in place had greater improvements in 5 of 7 chronic disease intermedi...
Management Briefs
...Articles focus on its roll-out, as well as its evaluation. The PACT initiative incorporates rigorous evaluation through five PACT Demonstration...
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...care integration teams. Substantial efforts are underway to strengthen PACT members' competencies and to build PACT capacity for pain management....
August 2014 FORUM
...systems. Improving care coordination and transitions of care for Veterans is an important and primary focus of PACT. PACT policy, metrics, and...
August 2014 FORUM
...systems. Improving care coordination and transitions of care for Veterans is an important and primary focus of PACT. PACT policy, metrics, and...
VISN 4's Center for Evaluation of PACT (CEPACT) is one of four Demonstration Labs funded by VA and HSR&D to evaluate the implementation of the Patient-Aligned Care Team (PACT) model. Read about research and leadership highlights from FY2010 through FY2014 in these CEPACT Fact Sheets. For more information, visit the CEPACT website at http://www.visn4.va.gov/VISN4/CEPACT/index.asp.
Learn more about the research being conducted within HSR&D's PACT CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence) initiative.
To find tools, resources, and more information about various aspects of the PACT model, visit the VA's Office of Patient Care Services PACT website.
