Primary Care Team Guide: "Improving Primary Care: A Guide to Better Care Through Teamwork"
All across the U.S., practices are trying to transform themselves to improve the quality of their care, become patient-centered medical homes, and qualify for new payment opportunities. The Primary Care Team Guide, developed by staff at the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, offers practical advice, close to 300 resources and models to help leaders and staff engaged in or considering practice transformation build more effective care teams and deploy them to optimize patient care.
Resource Brief: The Quadruple Aim: Supporting Care Team Members while Transforming Care
In November 2014, Bodenheimer and Sinsky published an article, “From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider,” in which they make the case that care teams are unable to achieve Triple Aim goals of improving population health while improving patient experience and reducing costs because providers and team members are overwhelmed and stressed.
Preparing for the Future: Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
This presentation, delivered to faculty at Eastern Washington University by Peggy Martin, PhD, OTR/L, outlines interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), discusses team-based competencies, shares an overview of the University of Minnesota's 1Health curriculum and outlines resources available through the National Center to support the understanding and implementation IPECP.
Picker Institute’s Eight Principles of Person-Centered Care
Picker Institute’s Eight Principles of Patient-Centered Care originated with the Seven Dimensions of Patient-Centered Care, whose development was traced in the 1993 groundbreaking book Through the Patient’s Eyes. Using a wide range of focus groups—recently discharged patients, family members, physicians and non-physician hospital staff—combined with a review of pertinent literature, researchers from Harvard Medical School, on behalf of Picker Institute and The Commonwealth Fund, defined seven primary dimensions of patient-centered care.
Improving School-Based Health Care through a Truly Interprofessional Approach
Wellness in youth sets the stage for health later in life. Chronic diseases such as Type II diabetes and sports injuries such as concussion require an interprofessional approach. In schools where nurses and athletic trainers are both present, many times they act independently. Despite having a common primary care mission and complementary training, they use separate facilities, supplies and medical records. New school-based initiatives exist, but have not included athletic trainers.
Advancing Compassionate, Person- and Family-Centered Care Through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice
Compassion is essential for effective collaboration among healthcare professionals, patients and families. Conventional wisdom and evidence support the importance of compassionate healthcare. So why then are the concepts and skills related to empathy and compassion not routinely taught, modeled and assessed across the continuum of learning and practice?
The State of the Science of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
This presentation, delivered by Barbara Brandt, PhD, as part of the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education advisory committee, outlines the evolution in thinking about teams and collaboration and offers an in-depth overview of the state of the science of interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Beyond Flexner: The Role of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
This presentation, delivered by Barbara Brandt, PhD, at Beyond Flexner 2015, discusses the evolution in thinking about teams and collaboration, introduces the "Nexus" and outlines the patient-centered curriculum.
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There Is No “I” in Teamwork in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Defining Teamwork Competencies for Academic Practice
Evidence suggests that teamwork is essential for safe, reliable practice. Creating health care teams able to function effectively in patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), practices that organize care around the patient and demonstrate achievement of defined quality care standards, remains challenging. Preparing trainees for practice in interprofessional teams is particularly challenging in academic health centers where health professions curricula are largely siloed.
