Organizational learning—COVID-19 experience: innovative global practices for improving patient care in crisis response

Muskopf, Jamie H.; Sudan, N; Verdooner, Elise; Nair, Murali

doi:10.21037/jhmhp-21-19

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“…Using a DE allowed them to broaden and reframe education scholarship practice during the pandemic. Other articles describe DE’s suitability for programs implemented during COVID-19, highlighting the evolving circumstances initiatives must respond to ( Karalis, 2020 ; Muskopf et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…While the literature describes practical steps for implementing DE in COVID-19, most remain theoretical and unreflective of real-life challenges faced by evaluators ( Parker et al, 2021 ; Patton, 2021 ). Other evaluators describe practical challenges with conducting DE during COVID-19 but do not necessarily offer solutions to these challenges based on their experiences ( Karalis, 2020 ; Muskopf et al, 2021 ; Wu et al, 2021 ).…”

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Developmental evaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Practice-based learnings from projects in British Columbia, Canada

Iyamu

Berger

Fernando

et al. 2022

Evaluation Journal of Australasia

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In this article, we explore experiences and learnings from adapting to challenges encountered in implementing three Developmental Evaluations (DE) in British Columbia, Canada within the evolving context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We situate our DE projects within our approach to the DE life cycle and describe challenges encountered and required adaptations in each phase of the life cycle. Regarding foundational aspects of DEs, we experienced challenges with relationship building, assessing and responding to the context, and ensuring continuous learning. These challenges were related to suboptimal embeddedness of the evaluators within the evaluated projects. We adapted by leveraging online channels to maintain communications and securing stakeholder engagement by assuming non-traditional DE roles based on our knowledge of the context to support project goals. Additional challenges experienced with mapping the rationale and goals of the projects, identifying domains for assessment, collecting data, making sense of the data and intervening were adapted to by facilitating online workshops, collecting data online and through proxy evaluators, while sharing methodological insights within the evaluation team. During evolving crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluators must embrace flexibility, leverage, and apply their knowledge of the evaluation context, lean on their strengths, purposefully reflect and share knowledge to optimise their DEs.

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Developmental evaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Practice-based learnings from projects in British Columbia, Canada

Iyamu

Berger

Fernando

et al. 2022

Evaluation Journal of Australasia

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Schools and Wastewater Surveillance: Practical Implications for an Emerging Technology to Impact Child Health

Johnson,

Espàrza,

Stevenson

et al. 2023

Health Promotion Practice

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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance has emerged as a public health tool that supplements traditional surveillance methods used to detect the prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in communities. In May 2020, the Houston Health Department (HHD) partnered with a coalition of municipal and academic partners to develop a wastewater monitoring and reporting system for the city of Houston, Texas. The HHD subsequently launched a program to conduct targeted wastewater sampling at 52 school sites located in a large, urban school district in Houston. Data generated by this program are shared with school district officials and nurses from participating schools. Although initial feedback from these stakeholders indicated that they considered the wastewater data valuable, the emergency nature of the pandemic prevented a systematic evaluation of the program. To address this gap in knowledge, the HHD and Rice University conducted a study to determine how wastewater data are used to make decisions about COVID-19 prevention and mitigation practices in schools. Our findings indicate that maximizing the utility of wastewater data in the school context will require the development of communication strategies and education efforts tailored to the needs of specific audiences and improving collaboration between local health departments, school districts, and school nurses.

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Organizational approaches to implement rapid change in hospitals to respond to public health emergencies

Guerrero¹,

Frimpong²

2021

J Hosp Manag Health Policy

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Organizational approaches to implement rapid change in hospitals to respond to public health emergenciesThe COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the need for crisis preparedness among public health systems worldwide. Securing both human and financial resources to improve standards of health care remains a global priority (1-4). Yet, efforts to improve preparedness lack the necessary frameworks to develop and sustain improvements in health care systems' processes and outcomes (5,6). The sudden and far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted scientists to develop frameworks that aim to adequately prepare hospitals and other health service delivery systems for surges in demand for care. A report on the operational readiness of nations on several indicators of preparedness found that only 57% of 182 countries had the functional capacity to execute crucial emergency-related activities (7). Elements of health care systems that have been implicated in low levels of preparedness have varied, ranging from supply chain failures, workforce shortages, organizational readiness for change, and resource constraints, among others (8,9). The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly impacted these elements. With decades of organizational research on the adoption and implementation of innovative practices, system and organizational scientists are poised to help health care organizations respond to the need for technical, financial, and cultural resources to effectively address public health crises (10-12). In this special issue, we embarked on an exploration of health care systems' capacity to respond to increasing public health challenges, to meet the global imperative for more efficient and effective crisis preparedness infrastructure.This special issue on "organizational approaches to implement rapid change in hospitals to respond to public health emergencies" presents conceptual and empirical papers on various approaches that hospitals and other health care organizations could implement to counteract current (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), ongoing (e.g., HIV, opioid overdose) and emerging epidemics that will impact global health. The purpose of this special issue is to advance Systems, as well as Organizations and Implementation Sciences by developing and testing frameworks that lead to a highly responsive and effective public health system. These interdisciplinary sciences focus on simple to complex systems, and implementation methods that lead to the integration of evidence-based practices. These interventions and resulting policies must necessarily be translated into routine practice in health care organizations.The papers included in this series use different levels of analysis (i.e., individual, group, organization or system) and are informed by different disciplinary frameworks. Despite these differences, all of these papers share a focus on implementing innovation and improving readiness among hospitals and allied health providers to effectively respond to public health emergencies. There are four papers in this series ...

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Organizational learning—COVID-19 experience: innovative global practices for improving patient care in crisis response

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Developmental evaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Practice-based learnings from projects in British Columbia, Canada

Developmental evaluation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Practice-based learnings from projects in British Columbia, Canada

Schools and Wastewater Surveillance: Practical Implications for an Emerging Technology to Impact Child Health

Organizational approaches to implement rapid change in hospitals to respond to public health emergencies

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