Tag Archives: Implementation

Special Issue of Medical Care: Implementation and Cost of evidence-based, patient-centered programs

By | November 30, 2023
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The Person-Centered Care Model

As part of its partnership with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Medical Care has published its first PCORI-sponsored article collection, which provides specific information about the costs that healthcare systems can expect to incur in promoting the uptake of specific evidence-based programs. In September’s special issue, five project teams that received Implementation Award funding from PCORI… Read More »

Implementation of HCV Treatment Programs

By | November 8, 2022
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Successfully implementing an intervention within a complex service delivery system requires multiple, inter-related adoption strategies.  The Veterans Administration’s (VA) renewed emphasis on Hepatitis C treatment offered a perfect opportunity to study which strategies worked. In this post, I will review those findings. Then, I will discuss the importance of accounting for the complexity of strategy… Read More »

How do you use PROs to improve patient care?

By | May 23, 2019
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Patients want to be healthy. They want to live longer, function better and have higher wellbeing. How patients feel is best measured by asking them. Few cancer patients these days have not been asked to fill out standardized questionnaires about their symptoms, functioning, and well-being. While these patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are not new to healthcare… Read More »