Developing measures of educational change for academic health care teams implementing the chronic care model in teaching practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is a multidimensional framework designed to improve care for patients with chronic health conditions. The model strives for productive interactions between informed, activated patients and proactive practice teams, resulting in better clinical outcomes and greater satisfaction. While measures for improving care may be clear, measures of residents' competency to provide chronic care do not exist. This report describes the process used to develop educational measures and results from CCM settings that used them to monitor curricular innovations.

Subjects

Twenty-six academic health care teams participating in the national and California Academic Chronic Care Collaboratives.

Method

Using successive discussion groups and surveys, par

SUBMITTER: Bowen JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2940445 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature