Publications by authors named "B L Connelly"
Purpose: To identify needs of metastatic breast cancer patients prior to starting a new systemic treatment.
Methods: Fifty patients with newly diagnosed, recurrent, or progressive metastatic breast cancer completed an electronic survey which included patient-reported outcome measures of function (PROMIS Cancer Function Brief 3D profile), quality of life (FACT-G), exercise (Godin Leisure-Time exercise questionnaire), and diet (REAP-S); demographic information; and self-reported use of or referral to specific resources at the cancer center prior to beginning a new systemic oncologic treatment.
Results: Prior to starting a new treatment for metastatic breast cancer, patients reported mild functional impairment (PROMIS Cancer Function Brief 3D profile mean score:42.
Introduction: Few rural hospital medicine programs include workforce development training that provides social and professional support for interdisciplinary teams. Even fewer include training that creates supportive learning environments that result in higher staff satisfaction, lower burnout, and reduced turnover. The Acute Inpatient Medicine-High Reliability, Learning Environment, and Workforce Development Initiative (AIM-HI) aims to create supportive learning environments in Veterans Health Administration (VA) rural hospital medicine teams.
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- The Veterans Health Administration is striving to create supportive learning environments within healthcare teams to reduce burnout and improve care consistency but struggles with reliable implementation of these strategies.
- The authors conducted a mixed-methods study involving 81 VA cardiac catheterization labs, leading to the development of a Relational Playbook focusing on evidence-based interventions to enhance team dynamics and learning.
- The Playbook includes 50 interventions organized into categories like teamwork and communication, aimed at helping healthcare managers integrate these practices into their current training and meetings to foster employee well-being and enhance patient safety.
Background: High-quality implementation evaluations report on intervention fidelity and adaptations made, but a practical process for evaluating implementation strategies is needed. A retrospective method for evaluating implementation strategies is also required as prospective methods can be resource intensive. This study aimed to establish an implementation strategy postmortem method to identify the implementation strategies used, when, and their perceived importance.
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