PROPOSED Outputs:
- Guidance for researchers and commissioners on health care implementation in care homes, resource on assessment tools and core outcomes in care home research;
- A repository of care home RCTs to support secondary data analysis and inform MDS development that can support more research and useful findings for priority questions, without the expense and burden of involving care homes and residents in research
- Evidence on what needs to be in place for MDS to support staff uptake, resident assessment care and improved outcomes
- An implementation strategy for MDS that links NHS, social care and care home generated data
- A prototype MDS to inform commissioning, needs assessment and care delivery.
DACHA Outputs:
- Work Package 3 PROSPERO registration: “The uptake and use of the minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes in care home settings: a realist review” – 9 March 2020 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=171323
- Work Package 1 PROSPERO registration: “A systematic review of process and contextual factors that influence research implementation in care homes and identification of key measures and outcomes in care home research” – 10 January 2020 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=155923
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