DESCRIPTION
Learning objectives:
- Be able to describe three considerations for assessing outcomes when studying de-implementation
- Name three unique challenges related to equity in de-implementation
- Explain three possible solutions that implementation scientists can adopt to address equity challenges in research on de-implementation
PRESENTER(S)
Reserach Investigator, Health Services Research & Development
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Christian D. Helfrich, MPH PhD, is a Core Investigator with the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health. His research focuses on testing strategies to promote the implementation of evidence-based healthcare practices and programs, and strategies to de-implement low-value care. He also has particular interest in organizational readiness to change in the context of evidence-based practices; when and why large-scale health care initiatives succeed or fail; and the causes of burnout in the healthcare workforce. Dr. Helfrich received his doctorate in Health Policy and Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Masters in Public Health from the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health. He can be found on Twitter at @helfrich_c.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Children's Hospital Colorado
Amy Tyler, MD, MSCS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado and serves as the Director of Quality Improvement for the Section of Hospital Medicine. As an health services and implementation science researcher, Dr. Tyler's research focuses on "de-implementation" to identify processes and strategies to stop or reduce over-testing and over-treatment that can be broadly adapted to varied contexts and disease processes to improve the delivery of guideline concordant, evidence-based care and improve patient outcomes.