Toolkits - Care Management

Replication Report

The following Replication Report was developed for the AoA's 2003 Evidence-Based Disease Prevention Grant. It provides an overview of the steps taken to adopt an evidence-based program and the lessons learned during this implementation process. The report addresses the topics covered under the RE-AIM format (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance). For more information about RE-AIM, visit www.re-aim.org and download the Issue Brief, RE-AIM for Program Planning: Overview and Applications.

Medication Management Improvement System (MMIS) Replication Report

Useful Implementation Tools

Listed below are a variety of tools that are useful—in fact, necessary—to implement the MMIS. These materials will be updated periodically.

1. Introduction/Background

a. Article(s) on original intervention

Preventing Medication Errors in Home Care

Possible Medication Errors in Home Healthcare Patients

Improving Medication Use in Newly Admitted Home Healthcare Patients: A Randomized Control Trial

b. Background research reference list

2. Planning and Partnerships

a.     Logic Model

b.     NCOA Readiness Assessment Tool

c.     RTZ/NIH grant award letter

3. Adoption

a. Pharmacist Outcome Record

b. Client Tracking Sheet

4. Reach

a. Sample MOU

5. Implementation

a.     Training Protocols

Unecessary Therapeutic Duplication

Uncharacteristic Confusion

Falls and Dizziness

Potentially Inapproriate Use of NSAIDS

Cardiac Standard for Nurses

b.     Site specific sample procedure flowchart

c.     MMIS Process flowchart

d.     Medication information form

e.     Sample medication report for the pharmacist

f.      Template letter to the MD

g.     Calling the MD—sample script

h.     Care manager follow-up questionnaire

6. Maintenance

a. Hartford dissemination proposal

b. Client vignettes

c. Care manager follow-up survey