Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: EQUIP: Implementing chronic care principles and applying formative evaluation methods to improve care for schizophrenia: QUERI Series | BioMed Central Implementation Science Research article Open Access EQUIP Implementing chronic care principles and applying formative evaluation methods to improve care for schizophrenia QUERI Series Alison H Brown 1 3 Amy N Cohen1 3 Matthew J Chinman1 4 Christopher Kessler2 and Alexander S Young1 3 Address 1VA Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center Los Angeles California USA 2Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Los Angeles California USA 3UCLA Department of Psychiatry Los Angeles California USA and 4RAND Corporation Santa Monica California USA Email Alison H Brown - alisonh@ Amy N Cohen - Matthew J Chinman - chinman@ Christopher Kessler - Alexander S Young - ayoung@ Corresponding author Published 15 February 2008 Received 22 August 2006 Implementation Science 2008 3 9 doi 1748-5908-3-9 Accepted I5 February 2008 This article is available from http content 3 1 9 2008 Brown et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background This paper presents a case study that demonstrates the evolution of a project entitled Enhancing QUality-of-care In Psychosis EQUIP that began approximately when the . Department of Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative QUERI and implementation science were emerging. EQUIP developed methods and tools to implement chronic illness care principles in the treatment of schizophrenia and evaluated this implementation using a small-scale controlled trial. The next iteration of the project EQUIP-2 was further informed by implementation science and the use of QUERI tools. Methods This paper reports the background .
