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Seminar: Learning session on designing evaluation of participation projects - 14 August 2007

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Learning session: Evaluating effectiveness of participation

Health services together with their communities were invited by the Department of Human Services to submit Controlled Before-and-After (CBA) evaluation designs of consumer participation interventions. The projects were to be aimed at improving the quality and safety of health care. The learning session explored what health services learnt in developing their designs, how support from the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group can be used, and insights from the subcommittee of the Participation Advisory Committee to the Department of Human Services who reviewed the submissions.

The session aimed to better equip people with: an understanding of using CBA to evaluate quality improvement interventions; ways to use and access evidence based findings, approaches for completing a Department of Human Services submission (Expression of Interest) process; and learning from the reviewers' perspective.

The following presentations were made at the learning session:

Agenda - Evaluation Design - Learning from the Evaluating Effectiveness of Participation project submissions (64kb, pdf)

Why evaluate the effectiveness of consumer, care and community participation? (183kb, MS Powerpoint)

Nursing home (RACF) case management and family involvement in residents' care - Cobram, Yarrawonga and The University of Melbourne (520kb, MS Powerpoint)

Conversations with the community: a dialogue model of community participation - Orbost Regional Health in collaboration with University of Tasmania & Yarram & District Health Service (70kb, MS Powerpoint)

Both sides of the story - South West Health (604kb, MS Powerpoint)

Improving medication safety through consumer partnerships during transitions from home to hospital and back again - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (123kb, MS Powerpoint)

Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group (152kb, MS Powerpoint)

Reflection by the Review Sub-committee (105kb, MS Powerpoint)