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Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe
The Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) project is a novel educational intervention designed in New Mexico to transfer subspecialty knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) to primary care providers, thereby increasing patient access to HCV care. The ECHO model has been shown to deliver...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2016-000141 |
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author | Ní Cheallaigh, Clíona O’Leary, Aisling Keating, Shay Singleton, Aileen Heffernan, Sheila Keenan, Eamon Robson, Lisa Sears, Jess Moloney, John Arora, Sanjeev Bergin, Colm Norris, Suzanne |
author_facet | Ní Cheallaigh, Clíona O’Leary, Aisling Keating, Shay Singleton, Aileen Heffernan, Sheila Keenan, Eamon Robson, Lisa Sears, Jess Moloney, John Arora, Sanjeev Bergin, Colm Norris, Suzanne |
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description | The Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) project is a novel educational intervention designed in New Mexico to transfer subspecialty knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) to primary care providers, thereby increasing patient access to HCV care. The ECHO model has been shown to deliver educational benefits and to result in good treatment outcomes for HCV-infected individuals in the USA; however, this approach has not been assessed in a European setting. We sought to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of the ECHO model in Ireland using a pilot study. We present a descriptive review of recruitment, participation, retention and cost of the intervention as well as a qualitative review of the views of participants on the barriers, benefits and acceptability of the ECHO model. In the original Project ECHO in New Mexico, geographical distance posed the greatest barrier to accessing HCV care. In Ireland, people who inject drugs (PWID) were identified by interviewees as the main group facing barriers to accessing specialist HCV care. State-employed doctors and nurses caring for large numbers of HCV-infected PWID in opiate substitution treatment centres and homeless hostels were successfully recruited to participate in the project. Self-employed general practitioners did not participate, due mainly to a lack of time and the absence of reimbursement for participation. Practitioners who participated in the pilot reported benefits to themselves and their patients and would like to continue to participate in similar multidisciplinary, multisite educational interventions in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-57548722018-02-12 Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe Ní Cheallaigh, Clíona O’Leary, Aisling Keating, Shay Singleton, Aileen Heffernan, Sheila Keenan, Eamon Robson, Lisa Sears, Jess Moloney, John Arora, Sanjeev Bergin, Colm Norris, Suzanne BMJ Innov Health IT, systems and process innovations The Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) project is a novel educational intervention designed in New Mexico to transfer subspecialty knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) to primary care providers, thereby increasing patient access to HCV care. The ECHO model has been shown to deliver educational benefits and to result in good treatment outcomes for HCV-infected individuals in the USA; however, this approach has not been assessed in a European setting. We sought to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of the ECHO model in Ireland using a pilot study. We present a descriptive review of recruitment, participation, retention and cost of the intervention as well as a qualitative review of the views of participants on the barriers, benefits and acceptability of the ECHO model. In the original Project ECHO in New Mexico, geographical distance posed the greatest barrier to accessing HCV care. In Ireland, people who inject drugs (PWID) were identified by interviewees as the main group facing barriers to accessing specialist HCV care. State-employed doctors and nurses caring for large numbers of HCV-infected PWID in opiate substitution treatment centres and homeless hostels were successfully recruited to participate in the project. Self-employed general practitioners did not participate, due mainly to a lack of time and the absence of reimbursement for participation. Practitioners who participated in the pilot reported benefits to themselves and their patients and would like to continue to participate in similar multidisciplinary, multisite educational interventions in the future. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-07 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5754872/ /pubmed/29445515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2016-000141 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Health IT, systems and process innovations Ní Cheallaigh, Clíona O’Leary, Aisling Keating, Shay Singleton, Aileen Heffernan, Sheila Keenan, Eamon Robson, Lisa Sears, Jess Moloney, John Arora, Sanjeev Bergin, Colm Norris, Suzanne Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title | Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title_full | Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title_fullStr | Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title_full_unstemmed | Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title_short | Telementoring with project ECHO: a pilot study in Europe |
title_sort | telementoring with project echo: a pilot study in europe |
topic | Health IT, systems and process innovations |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2016-000141 |
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