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Pre-Implementation of the Age-Friendly Health Systems Evidence-Based 4Ms Framework in a Multi-State Convenient Care
Mary A Dolansky1, Anne Pohnert2, Sarah Ball3
1Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Background:
Quality issues in the delivery of healthcare services to older adults and changes in societal demographics call for a social movement to improve the care of older adults in a variety of healthcare settings, including ambulatory care and convenient care clinics.
Aims:
To describe the pre-implementation phase to integrate the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) 4Ms (i.e., What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) Framework in 1,100 MinuteClinics (the retail medical clinic of CVS Health) using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and RE-AIM (an evaluation implementation framework).
Methods:
The CFIR and RE-AIM models guided data collection. Data were collected from all stakeholders (patients, healthcare providers, managers, educators, informatics staff, communications staff, and implementation consultants) via observations, surveys, interviews, focus groups, organizational readiness assessment, stakeholder assessment, and workflow mapping during a 15-month period to identify potential barriers, facilitators, and other opportunities for implementation.
Results:
The CFIR and RE-AIM implementation frameworks provided a comprehensive approach to guide the pre-implementation phase of the AFHS 4Ms Framework at the MinuteClinic. The baseline assessments guided by the CFIR revealed important insights in the choice of implementation strategies that were developed and tested in the pre-implementation phase, and the RE-AIM guided meaningful components to the development of the logic model.
Linking Action To Evidence:
As more healthcare systems integrate the AFHS 4Ms Framework, the approach reported in this quality improvement project can be used in other settings to facilitate a comprehensive implementation.
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