OTCC: Events, Tools & Resources

Events and Supporting Materials

Learning Session 3, April 7, 2011: “Patients as Partners”

• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit: Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this extensive toolkit provides step-by-step guidance for assessing your practice and making changes so that you connect with patients and caregivers at all literacy levels. It’s designed to be used by all levels of staff.
• Advancing the Practice of Patient and Family Centered Care: Developed by the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care, this resource includes a section called “Where Do We Stand?” that you can use to assess how well patient and family-centered approaches are embedded in your organization’s culture.
• Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Safety and Quality:A Mini Toolkit: Developed by the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care, this toolkit will walk you through the processes of recruiting and involving patients and family members in your quality improvement efforts.
• Health Literacy: Definitions, Evidence and Interventions: Presentation by Connie Davis
• The Engaged Patient: Partnering for Improved Outcomes: Presentation by Connie Davis
• Patients and Families as Partners in Quality Improvement Efforts: Presentation by Mary Minniti

“Oregon Grown” Care Transition Tools

• Personal Health Record: The Lane County Transitional Care Collaborative has developed a Personal Health Record based on a component of the Care Transitions Intervention developed by the University of Colorado at Denver.

Other Resources

• National Transitions of Care Coalition Compendium: This comprehensive site houses white papers, journal articles, and websites for improving care transitions. You can browse the compendium by topic or setting of care.
• Care Measures Atlas (webpage): Commissioned by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, this Atlas was designed to help identify appropriate measures for assessing care coordination interventions.
• Care Measures Atlas.pdf