{"title":"Building Team-based Primary Care: Lessons From an Academic-Community Network Partnership.","authors":"Katie Coleman, Claire Allen, Alexia Eslan, Carolyn Shepherd, Jessica Sanchez","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Team-based care is fundamental to providing high-quality health care for patients. However, moving from a traditional, hierarchical way of providing care to team-based care is challenging and involves systematic and sustained process changes.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe the implementation and evaluation of a partnership between academics, clinic, and community to improve team-based care in primary care practices serving vulnerable populations utilizing a structured change package and implementation support.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The partners 1) created a six-strategy structured change package, 2) designed implementation support, and 3) evaluated implementation using an assessment scale at baseline and every 6 months.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Practices improved in all care-team functions from May 2015 to August 2018, with the most improvement seen in population management, planned care and empanelment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Academic-community partnerships can use evidence-based practice supports to measurably improve team-based care in primary care practices serving vulnerable populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46970,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Progress in Community Health Partnerships-Research Education and Action","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: Team-based care is fundamental to providing high-quality health care for patients. However, moving from a traditional, hierarchical way of providing care to team-based care is challenging and involves systematic and sustained process changes.
Objectives: To describe the implementation and evaluation of a partnership between academics, clinic, and community to improve team-based care in primary care practices serving vulnerable populations utilizing a structured change package and implementation support.
Methods: The partners 1) created a six-strategy structured change package, 2) designed implementation support, and 3) evaluated implementation using an assessment scale at baseline and every 6 months.
Results: Practices improved in all care-team functions from May 2015 to August 2018, with the most improvement seen in population management, planned care and empanelment.
Conclusions: Academic-community partnerships can use evidence-based practice supports to measurably improve team-based care in primary care practices serving vulnerable populations.