Protocol Assignment Forum: Defining the Quality & Outcome Gaps
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The key materials you need to complete this assignment are: attending or viewing the lecture and understanding of the Academic Medicine article “A framework for training health professionals…”
A. What evidence are you proposing to translate into practice?
- Justify that this evidence is “ready for translation.”
- Identify a single, key behavior change target for your translational activity.
- Conduct a “gap analysis” of your target behavior. Look to diverse sources for “best guess” estimates if specific measures are not available.
B. What is the quality (performance) gap?
C. What is the outcome gap?
D. Is there evidence that changing performance will improve health (clinical outcomes)?
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