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Developing Organizational Capacity to Explore Care and Retention Barriers among HIV Positive Urban Patients
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| Jennifer Catrambone, Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center, jenncamcat@gmail.com
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| Susan Ryerson Espino, Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center, srespino@gmail.com
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Internal and external evaluators worked collaboratively with multidisciplinary staff to construct an anonymous survey to explore barriers impacting the care engagement of urban HIV positive patients. The setting is a large Midwestern one-stop primary care clinic for infectious diseases. Target participants are returning to care after a gap in care exceeding one year. Patients are asked to endorse any listed concerns that have impeded their care. Concerns are personal, interpersonal, community, and structural concerns in nature including those relating to living situations, transportation, providers, clinics, disclosure, health, employment, family, and violence. Factors influencing a return to care are also explored along with basic demographics. This presentation will describe in more detail the collaborative development process, pros and cons of method, data collected since the Spring of 2010, as well as clinic-wide dissemination successes and challenges in an attempt to increase staff awareness of barriers and foster dialogue about prevention.
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A Framework to Guide Evaluation Knowledge Translation and Exchange (KTE) Within a Rural and Remote Health Authority
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| Jennifer Miller, Interior Health Authority, jennifer.miller@interiorhealth.ca
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| James Coyle, Interior Health Authority, james.coyle@interiorhealth.ca
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What works and what doesn't when trying to get evaluation findings into the hands of healthcare decision makers? Drawing on current theory on knowledge translation and exchange (KTE), the Interior Health Evaluation Department has developed strategies to facilitate both integrated and end-of-project KTE with health program stakeholders at all levels. This presentation will outline how our team is incorporating a simple framework and 5 key KTE questions (based on John Lavis, McMaster University, Canada): 1) what is the message?, 2) who is the audience?, 3) who is the messenger?, 4) what is the transfer method?, and 5) what are the expected outcomes?. There will also be time for discussion regarding how this KTE framework may be applied in other evaluation settings.
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How We Established and Nurtured Evaluation Capacity Within a Complex and Largely Rural and Remote Canadian Health Authority
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| James Coyle, Interior Health Authority, james.coyle@interiorhealth.ca
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| Jennifer Miller, Interior Health Authority, jennifer.miller@interiorhealth.ca
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The Interior Health Authority Evaluation Department formed in 2007 and is a small team of dedicated health program evaluators within the large, complex, rural/remote regional health authority. The department's goal is to support learning, decision making, and planning, through tailored, thoughtful and participatory evaluation approaches. Some colleagues who don't have dedicated evaluation resources in their organization often ask 'how did you start up and sustain your evaluation team in your organization?' This presentation will outline the evolution of our team's strategies, evaluation approaches and activities (e.g. conducting executive-sponsored priority evaluations, consultation/coaching with program teams, and provincial evaluation liaison/representation) over the past 4 years. We will also discuss how our evaluation team ensures that both the process and findings of an evaluation are useful for customers and remain relevant to organizational sponsors.
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