Leadership Team
The Collaborative leadership team for a Duke EPIC Learning Collaborative or Breakthrough Series Collaborative includes an improvement adviser, program manager, and other experts in both the evidence-based practice and implementation. Collectively, the leadership team plans, coordinates, and executes Collaborative activities.
Collaborative Change Framework
The Collaborative Change Framework for a Learning Collaborative or Breakthrough Series Collaborative is drafted at an Expert Panel Meeting. Each expert panel includes the Collaborative’s leadership team, developers of the evidence-based practice, and individuals who will be impacted by implementation of the evidence-based practice (for example: organization administrators and clinical staff, community partners, and consumers). Together they discuss the organization’s or system’s unique needs, resources, and populations served to determine the Collaborative’s mission and goals. The Collaborative’s mission and goals combined with the Collaborative’s metrics (that track progress towards stated goals ) create the Collaborative Change Framework. This document serves as a roadmap for implementing the evidence-based practice and sustaining it over time.
Collaborative Faculty
Similar to the Collaborative leadership team, the Collaborative faculty includes experts in: the evidence-based practice, implementation science, and the Collaborative model utilized by Duke EPIC. In addition, the Collaborative faculty includes clinical supervisors/clinicians and organization administrators with experience in the evidence-based practice in a setting comparable to the Collaborative setting.
Collaborative Teams
The Learning Collaborative or Breakthrough Series Collaborative may have anywhere from 5 to 12 Collaborative Teams with 5 to 10 members on each individual team. Collaborative team members represent the organizational roles and functions needed to effectively implement the chosen evidence-based practice.
Collaborative Launch
During the Collaborative Launch, teams complete various activities determined by the Collaborative faculty and program manager. Collaborative Launch activities typically include: an organizational readiness assessment, foundational readings and/or videos, conference calls, and general team building (creation of a team motto and team storyboard.
