Addressing Chronic Conditions Through Community Partnerships: A Formative Evaluation of "Taking on Diabetes"
| dc.contributor.author | Palsbo, Susan E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kroll, Thilo | |
| dc.contributor.author | McNeil, Melissa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-12-24T14:55:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-12-24T14:55:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-09 | |
| dc.description | Additional copies of this (#766) and other Commonwealth Fund publications are available online at www.cmwf.org. | en |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The Commonwealth Fund | en |
| dc.format.extent | 354386 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/414 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Commonwealth Fund | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Field Report | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 766 | en |
| dc.subject | Diabetes | |
| dc.subject | Quality improvement | |
| dc.subject | Group dynamics | |
| dc.title | Addressing Chronic Conditions Through Community Partnerships: A Formative Evaluation of "Taking on Diabetes" | |
| dc.type | Technical Report |