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Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Rapid Response Teams: A learning health system approach to addressing emerging health system challenges

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, research has a crucial role in helping to inform health system efforts to provide more efficient, consumer-centered care.The Learning Health System Framework provides a vision of how the research enterprise can synergize with health system operations by systematically generating and integrating research evidence with performance data and applying this knowledge to address complex policy challenges and drive sustained care improvements across the health system.1,2 Yet, research processes and timelines remain inefficient and misaligned with health system priorities and needs.Research and operations often operate under different priorities, goals, timelines, and metrics, and addressing these inherent tensions is essential to realizing Learning Health System goals and enhancing the real-world impact of research.3,4 Making research more timely and responsive to health system, provider, and consumer needs requires engaging vested partners early on to align research and health system priorities and goals and streamline research through greater utilization of pragmatic research designs, improved research infrastructures, and accelerated peer review processes.4,5 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) was established in 1998 as a knowledge

Source: Health Services Research

DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.14380

Authors: Melissa Z. Braganza, S. I. Gidmark, A. L. Taylor, A. M. Kilbourne