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Collaborating to evaluate
Who could your collaborators be?
Collaborators
?
Australian Government
Department of Health and
Ageing
Evaluating the Impact of the ‘Patient as Professional
within a Network’ Tool to Self-Manage Chronic DiseaseLinked to project:
Interprofessional Learning in Primary Health Care to
Encourage Active Patient Self-Management of Chronic
Disease
Health professionals
Consumers
Community organizations
Collaborative links
Community coalition re Diabetes (Hill et al., 2008)
This was successful because: Long-term collaboration Equal participation Broad membership Recognition of efforts by insiders and
outsiders Timing & persistence Acknowledgment that policy change
takes time Empowerment, and voice of community University as equal partner Shared vision and collaboration
Hill, A., de Zapien, J.G., Stewart, R.,Whitmer, M., et al. (2008). Building a successful community coalition-university partnership at the Arizona-Sonora border. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action., 2 (3), 245-250.
How do I findcollaborators ?
Collaborators
?
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Tools Evaluation Network (CDSMTEN)
WHAT DOES THE CDSMTEN INVOLVE? A web-based forum provides the opportunity to
share information on CDSM evaluation methods through the use of a discussion forum, http://cdsmten-forum.wikispaces.com/
An activity of the CDSMTEN was the pre-conference workshop, ‘Evaluating CDSM tools’
“Collaboration is a mutually beneficial and well-defined relationship entered into by two or more organizations to
achieve common goals”.
Collaborative practice
Lukas, C. & Andrews, R. http://www.fieldstonealliance.org/client/articles/Article-4_Key_Collab_Success.cfm
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