The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

3142.0: Monday, November 11, 2002 - 1:30 PM

Abstract #52571

Connecting communities and data to implement COPC

Elvan Catherine Daniels, MD, Associate Director for Community-Oriented Primary Care, National Center for Primary Care Center - Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA 30310, 404-756-5740, edaniels@msm.edu

Putting community-oriented primary care into practice in real-world clinical settings can be challenging. The full cycle of COPC requires not only a desire to create positive interventions for the community, but the ability to obtain representative feedback from members of the community and to obtain objective data on relevant outcome measures. This community-input >>>intervention >>> objective evaluation cycle must not just be completed once, but must be a continuous loop with increasingly rapid cycle times if the COPC initiative is to achieve measurable improvement in the community’s health. In this session, we will discuss common barriers and seek to learn methods for closing the COPC loop by creating structures for “listening to the community”, as well as sources of outcomes data that follow patients beyond the walls of one clinical practice.

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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA