Evaluation Methods, Indicators, and Outcomes in Learning Health Systems: Protocol for a Jurisdictional Scan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In learning health systems (LHSs), real-time evidence, informatics, patient-provider partnerships and experiences, and organizational culture are combined to conduct "learning cycles" that support improvements in care. Although the concept of LHSs is fairly well established in the literature, evaluation methods, mechanisms, and indicators are less consistently described. Furthermore, LHSs often use "usual care" or "status quo" as a benchmark for comparing new approaches to care, but disentangling usual care from multifarious care modalities found across settings is challenging. There is a need to identify which evaluation methods are used within LHSs, describe how LHS growth and maturity are conceptualized, and determine what tools and measures are being used to evaluate

SUBMITTER: Vanderhout S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11694705 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature