4 results match your criteria: "Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative[Affiliation]"

Objectives: All 50 states have implemented a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) in efforts to control prescription drug abuse. Many now mandate PDMP checks before clinicians prescribe controlled substances. The aim of this study was to characterize the associations between patient characteristics, red flags found on PDMP reports, and prescriber behavior at community mental health agencies.

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Objectives: To elucidate pathways to healing for people having suffered injury to the integrity of their function as a human being.

Methods: A team of physician-analysts conducted thematic analyses of in-depth interviews of 23 patients who experienced healing, as identified by six primary care physicians purposefully selected as exemplary healers.

Results: People in the sample experienced healing journeys that spanned a spectrum from overcoming unspeakable trauma and then becoming healers themselves to everyday heroes functioning well despite ongoing serious health challenges.

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Community-engagement strategies of the developmental disabilities practice-based research network (DD-PBRN).

J Am Board Fam Med

December 2015

From the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CVT) and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (JJW), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; the Fairview Hospital/Cleveland Clinic Family Medicine Residency, Cleveland (CVT); and the Practice-Based Research Network Shared Resource, Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative, Cleveland (JJW).

There is often a rich but untold history of events that occur and relationships that form before a practice-based research network (PBRN) is launched. This is particularly the case in PBRNs that are community based and comprise partnerships outside of the health care system. In this article we summarize an organizational "prenatal history" before the birth of a PBRN devoted to people with developmental disabilities.

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Coaching strategies for enhancing practice transformation.

Fam Pract

February 2015

Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research to Address Community Health (REACH) Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.

Background: Current research on primary care practice redesign suggests that outside facilitation can be an important source of support for achieving substantial change.

Objectives: To analyse the specific sequence of strategies used by a successful practice facilitator during the American Academy of Family Physicians' (AAFP) National Demonstration Project (NDP).

Methods: This secondary analysis describes a sequence of strategies used to produce change in family medicine practices attempting to adopt a new model of care.

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