Dissemination and Knowledge Translation in Professional Virtual Communities

描述(由申请人提供)：卫生服务提供者未能将循证指南和资源转化为实践，这是改善卫生结果的一个显著障碍。GHDOnline是由哈佛大学全球卫生服务项目开发的一个在线协作平台，它将创建与卫生保健提供中的几个关键挑战相关的专业虚拟社区(PVC)。这些PVC将使临床知识、工具和指南的传播速度更快。GHDOnline建议让AHRQ、医学研究所、Cochrane Collaboration和美国预防服务工作组收集和编目的及时、相关和关键的-但也是详细的、技术性的和复杂的-信息更容易被那些与服务不足的人群合作并为其提供护理的人获取。在三年的资助期内，GHDOnline提出了五个具体目标：1.在GHDOnline上建立六个新的PVC，直接与提供服务不足的美国人口有关2.招募10,000名新成员加入这些新社区，建立一个由来自2,100个组织和159个国家的近7,000名成员组成的现有网络3.聘请和培训12名新的专家主持人来管理社区4.围绕AHRQ和其他人开发的循证指南组织至少36次结构化的虚拟讨论(专家小组)5.使用Kirkpatrick评估模型比较成员在参与PVC之前和之后对循证医学的理解和应用

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The failure of health providers to translate evidence-based guidelines and resources into practice is a salient barrier to improving health outcomes. GHDonline, an online collaboration platform developed by the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard, will create Professional Virtual Communities (PVCs) related to several key challenges in health care delivery. These PVCs will enable faster dissemination of clinical knowledge, tools, and guidelines. GHDonline proposes to make the timely, relevant, and critical-but also detailed, technical, and complex- information collected and catalogued by the AHRQ, the Institute of Medicine, the Cochrane Collaboration, and the US Preventive Services Task Force, more accessible to those working with and providing care to underserved populations. During the three-year funding period, GHDonline proposes five specific aims: 1. Establish six new PVCs on GHDonline relating directly to the delivery of care of underserved US populations 2. Recruit 10,000 new members to participate in these new communities, building off an existing network of nearly 7,000 members from 2,100 organizations and 159 countries 3. Hire and train 12 new expert moderators to manage the communities 4. Organize at least 36 structured virtual discussions (Expert Panels) around evidence-based guidelines developed by AHRQ and others 5. Compare members' understanding and application of evidence-based medicine before and after participation in the PVCs, using the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model