Addressing Chronic Conditions Through Community Partnerships: A Formative Evaluation of "Taking on Diabetes"
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| Title: | Addressing Chronic Conditions Through Community Partnerships: A Formative Evaluation of "Taking on Diabetes" |
| Author(s): | Palsbo, Susan E.; Kroll, Thilo; McNeil, Melissa |
| Keywords: | diabetes; quality improvement; Group dynamics |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2004 |
| Publisher: | The Commonwealth Fund |
| Series/Report no.: | Field Report 766 |
| Abstract: | Community partnerships—coalitions of health plans, physicians, and local groups—can help overcome organizational boundaries and allow competing parties to work together to focus on a shared goal, like the treatment of a chronic condition. In this study, researchers evaluated three community partnership projects sponsored by a national trade association of health plans. These initiatives, focused on quality mprovement in diabetes care, were located in three very different markets in the United States: Albuquerque, New Mexico; Kansas City, Missouri; and Westchester County, New York. Successful community partnerships, the researchers found, can be formed from different starting points and by following different paths. Instead of following a strict set of protocols, the researchers uggest that these groups pay careful attention to principles of group dynamic theory. In addition, a neutral facilitator, like a trade association, can build bridges and help competing concerns be less proprietary. |
| Description: | Additional copies of this (#766) and other Commonwealth Fund publications are available online at www.cmwf.org. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1920/414 |
| Appears in Collections: | Susan Palsbo Collection |
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