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Learning Collaboratives
...to
narrow the gap between what is and what can be for the growing
population of children and youth with special health care
needs. - NICHQ
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
(IHI) developed the collaborative learning model in 1995,
called the Breakthrough Series.
The Breakthrough Series is designed to help organizations
close that gap by creating a structure in which interested
organizations can easily learn from each other and from
recognized experts in topic areas where they want to make
improvements. A Breakthrough Series Collaborative is a short-term
(6- to 15-month) learning system that brings together a
large number of teams from hospitals or clinics to seek
improvement in a focused topic area. 1
A
glossary of common improvement terminology. Institute
for Healthcare Improvement. Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Directions: you will need to log in to the IHI web site
to download the glossary
The Care Model for Child Health
in a Medical Home
-Adapted from The Chronic Care Model developed by Ed Wagner,
MD, MPH
The Chronic Care Model is an organizational approach to
caring for people with chronic disease in a primary care
setting. The system is population-based and creates practical,
supportive, evidenced-based interactions between an informed,
activated patient and a prepared, proactive practice team
(Wagner, et al).
The Care Model for Child Health in a Medical Home has been
adapted from the Chronic Care Model for the care of CYSHCN
in primary care settings. Six domains organize the model;
each represents numerous change concepts and innovative
action ideas for a strong health care environment supportive
of a Medical Home for every child and youth with special
health care needs. Care
Model Fact Sheet
Improvement Methods
IHI has collected content including
change concepts, measures, resources, improvement stories,
and downloadable tools — to help you make improvement
successful in your organization. This includes:
Literature
Leaders interviewed for this article thought the critical
determinants of how effective the collaboratives are include:
sponsorship, topic, ideas for improvements, participants,
senior leadership support, preliminary work and learning,
and strategies for learning about and making improvements.
Technical Assistance
Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC)
improvingchroniccare.org/index.html
The program seeks to improve the care of the chronically
ill. ICIC provides year-long improvement programs based
on a process developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
and provides access to dozens of tools and materials to
help you prepare for and conduct a collaborative. This includes:
- Access to a library of collaborative training and tools
- Join a year-long improvement collaborative
- Take the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care survey and
see how your system’s present chronic illness care
measures up,
The Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement
childhealthimprovement.org/index.cfm
Services Include:
- Data Support and Analysis
- Delivery System Innovation and Design
- Hour-long convenient CME learning opportunities
- Diffusion and Spread Initiatives
The National Initiative for Children's
Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) www.nichq.org/nichq
Services Include:
- Conferences and Trainings
Like their Collaboratives, draw on quality improvement
principles and best-practice guidelines. Many of the conferences
and trainings are "public" events, or open to
organizations and individuals to join to learn and share,
network, and challenge each other to new levels of excellence.
1.
The Breakthrough Series: IHI’s Collaborative Model
for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement – Boston,
Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2003
Last Updated
March 13, 2008
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