Pilot Program
Improving Team-Based Care Coordination Delivery and Documentation in the Health Record
A template developed at the Atlanta VAMC standardizes and captures data about care coordination components in a patient’s electronic heath record...
The Future
In stage 2 of the CoEPCE program, a multi-site trial of PACT ICU was completed to better understand which elements are critical to success, with the goal of facilitating broader exportability.5 The trial focused on 3 intertwined elements: structure, delivery, and evaluation. Using local implementation and the multisite trial, the most effective practices have been documented as part of an implementation kit, available at boisevacoe.org. The goal of the implementation kit is to facilitate step-by-step implementation of PACT ICU to other settings beyond the multisite study. Since the open-ended structure of PACT ICU enables accommodating different professions and specialties beyond the model’s Boise VAMC participants, it could be easily adapted to potentially support a variety of implementations elsewhere (Appendix).
Another opportunity for expansion is increased patient involvement. Currently, PACT ICU patients have the opportunity to review and ask questions about their multidisciplinary care plans before starting.
