CMWF Study on "Care Coordination Agreements" - Case Request

Dear PCPCC Members,

The Collaborative was recently contacted by the Center for Studying Health System Change who asked for our help on a CMWF funded study on “care coordination agreements”.   Below, please find the text of the request as sent to us by their Senior Health Researcher, Hoangmai (Mai) Pham. 

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

Edwina

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We are starting a qualitative study funded by the Commonwealth Fund to examine the experiences of primary care practices using “care coordination agreements,” sometimes called “service agreements,” with other care providers (e.g., other medical practices, hospitals, urgent care centers). Our goal is to understand the barriers and facilitators faced by these innovative practices, and distill out the most valuable lessons learned for other practitioners and policymakers.

We are interested in agreements that govern care coordination responsibilities of each party in four types of care situations:

1.            Outpatient specialty care

2.            Hospital admission or discharge transitions, and/or inpatient care

3.            Urgent/emergent care

4.            Community based services (such as home health or hospice)

We are looking for cases of agreements that have been put into place already, or will be within the first half of 2010. Although they need not be formal contracts, we would prefer cases where the agreement or its major components have been written down (not just a verbal pact) in some form. We plan to recruit cases, then conduct 60 minute interviews with one knowledgeable person from each of the parties to the agreement.

If you know of potentially appropriate cases of care coordination agreements, please contact Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, MD, MPH at:

 

Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH

Senior Health Researcher

Co-Director for Quantitative Research

Center for Studying Health System Change

600 Maryland Ave., SW, Suite 550

Washington, DC 20024

202-554-7571; fax: 202-484-9258

[email protected]

 

THANK YOU very much.

Mai