Evaluation of ARRA Supported Grantee Efforts to Implement and Spread CER Findings

Final Webinar Description

Title: What Works and Why? Lessons Learned from Six AHRQ Grantees* Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research

Date and Time: November 17, 2014; 12:00—1:30pm ET

Description:

Without intervention, it takes an estimated 17 years for new clinical evidence to be implemented into practice.** Stephen Crystal, PhD (Rutgers University), Michael Dulin, MD, PhD and Hazel Tapp, PhD (Carolinas Healthcare System), Keith Kanel, MD (Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative), Paula Darby Lipman, PhD (Westat—working with Dr. James Mold, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, retired), Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP (Johns Hopkins University), and Ardis Olson, MD (Dartmouth CO-OP Project/CECH PBRNs)—leaders from the 6 AHRQ-funded grants* that aimed to expedite the implementation timetable—will be featured in a roundtable discussion of lessons learned. While the grant-funded projects cover diverse clinical topics (e.g., from mental health screening to reducing hospital infections) that target a range of implementers (e.g., primary care practices to State Medicaid networks), there are lessons for all. In rapid fire, grant leads will describe key components of each of the 6 interventions, after which they will be interviewed by James Dearing, PhD (Michigan State University) about:

What grantees did that worked well and why.

• What grantees tried that didn’t work out as planned and why not.
• Grantee recommendations for AHRQ and other funders of CER spread to guide future efforts.
• Grantees will also share a list of tools they developed.

Grantees will also share a list of tools they developed or adapted, which may be helpful to others working to shorten implementation timelines. 

Note: Grantee teams from these six grants* as well as AHRQ grantees funded under "Disseminating Patient Centered Outcomes Research to Improve Healthcare Delivery" are being invited to participate, and the Webinar format will include opportunities for broader discussion among audience participants.

* AHRQ's Accelerating Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Findings on Clinical and Delivery System Interventions by Leveraging AHRQ Networks program.
** Grant, J., Green, L., & Mason, B. (2003). Basic research and health: A reassessment of the scientific basis for the support of biomedical science. Research Evaluation; 12 (3): 217-224; Green, L., Ottoson, J., Garcia, C., & Hiatt, R. (2009). Diffusion theory and knowledge dissemination, utilization, and integration in public health. Annual Rev Public Health 30: 151-74.

Final Webinar Agenda

1. WELCOME/WEBINAR OVERVIEW by AHRQ (Jan De La Mare)
   (5 minutes total) 
2. HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF 6 GRANTS BY PANELISTS (Peggy McNamara)—3 minutes per grantee:
   • Improving processes to address mental health conditions: rapid fire overview of 3 projects by Drs. Kanel, Olson and Crystal.
   • Clarifying questions (2 minutes).
   • Improving processes to address physical health conditions: rapid fire overview of 3 projects by Drs. Dulin, Darby Lipman, and Marsteller.
   • Clarifying questions (2 minutes).

   (22 minutes total)

3. INTERVIEW OF GRANTEES ABOUT LESSONS LEARNED (James Dearing)
   • Question 1 to all 6 grantees: What did you do that worked well? (15 minutes).
   • Audience Discussion (5 minutes).
   • Question 2 to all 6 grantees: What did you try that didn’t work? (15 minutes).
   • Audience Discussion (5 minutes).
   • Question 3 to all 6 grantees: What are your recommendations for AHRQ and other funders to achieve CER spread? (8 minutes).
   • Audience Discussion (3 minutes).

   (51 minutes total)

4. PUBLIC DOMAIN TOOLS Grantees developed that may be helpful to others by PIs/representatives (Peggy McNamara)
   • Rapid fire overview of public domain tools by all 6 PIs/representatives: 
     • Cluster 1 (Kanel, Olson, Crystal)—2 minutes per grantee. 
     • Cluster 2 (Dulin, Darby Lipman, Marsteller)—2 minutes per grantee. 

     (12 minutes total)

Total time: 90 minutes