Collaborating to evaluate. Who could your collaborators be? Collaborators ?

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