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TVN Implementing Frailty Portal

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Primary Care Application

For more than 20 years, has lead research projects that apply palliative care quality indicators and best practices to primary care.  This TVN project builds on his expertise by scaling-up the use of a frailty prortal.

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TVN Implementing Frailty Portal

Project Title

Implementing the 鈥楩railty Portal鈥� in Community Primary Care Practice: Evaluating feasibility, effects and expansion needs听听听

Time Period and Funding

2015-16, Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network () National Centre of Excellence (NCE), TVN Improving Care for the Frail Elderly: Implementation Study, $221,937 (TVN + partner in-kind)听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Principal Investigator

Paige Moorhouse, , Tara Sampalli

Co-Investigators:

Lisa Bedford, Rick Gibson, Lynn Edwards, Grace Warner, Melissa Andrews, Deidre Taylor, Laurie Mallery, Minnie Downey

Project Staff:

, Research Associate

Stephanie Wood & Barbara O鈥橬eill (financial), Administrative research co-ordinators

Caitlin Lees, HQP

Purpose

Assess the implementation feasibility and impact of the 鈥楩railty Portal鈥� in identifying, raising awareness, care planning and delivery of appropriate care for the frail in community primary health care (PHC) practice.

The Frailty Portal was piloted in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2014, and following modifications will be implemented in 2015 among a broader group of Nova Scotia PHC providers, along with cross-jurisdictional exploration in Fraser Health, British Columbia.

Methods

  • Identify factors influencing the implementation/feasibility of the 鈥楩railty Portal鈥� program among frail patients, their family caregivers and PHC providers
  • Assess the impact of the 鈥楩railty Portal鈥� on frail patients, their caregivers and PHC providers
  • Identify the core components required to successfully scale-up the initiative to a broader community of PHC providers within and across health jurisdictions.

Outputs

  • Factors influencing the feasibility of implementing the 鈥楩railty Portal鈥�
  • Impact of the Frailty Portal on targeted immediate outcomes
  • Core components necessary for successful scale-up

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