Practice Transformation Driven through Academic Partnerships
Open Access
- 14 July 2020
- Vol. 8 (3), 120
- https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8030120
Abstract
Evidence-based interventions have been shown to improve the quality of patient care, reduce costs, and improve overall health outcomes; however, adopting new published research and knowledge into practice has historically been slow, and requires an active, systematic approach to engage clinicians and healthcare administrators in the required change. Pharmacists have been identified as important agents of change and can enhance care delivery in primary care settings through evidence-based interventions. Utilizing the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) we identify, assess, and share barriers and facilitators to program development, as well as growth and expansion efforts across five discrete, university-subsidized, embedded-pharmacy practices in primary care. We identified two overarching modifiable factors that influence current and future practice delivery and highlight the role of academia as an incubator for practice change and implementation: Data collection and information sharing. Conceptual frameworks such as CFIR help establish a common vernacular that can be used to facilitate systematic practice site implementation and dissemination of information required to support practice transformation.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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