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Title: | Mind the Gap! Challenges translating cardiac telerehabilitation research into practice. |
Author: | Rawstron, Jonathon Cartledge, S. Islam, S. Wallen, M. Grace, F. Evans, Luke Amerena, J. Maddison, R. |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Conference Name: | Western Alliance Sixth Annual Symposium |
Conference Date: | 2 - 4 November |
Conference Place: | Ballarat, Australia |
Abstract: | Aim:Exercise is a key component of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) but access to traditional face-to-face services is a major participation barrier outside metropolitan areas. Use of emerging technologies to deliver real-time remote exercise supervision has proven to be effective and affordable in scientific trials, but processes required to successfully bridge the gap to clinical practice are unknown. Methods: Methods: We are engaging CR healthcare consumers, professionals, and managers/executives in a 3-phase multisite implementation study to create and evaluate context-specific strategies that promote successful, scalable, sustainable translation of real-time cardiac telerehabilitation into clinical practice. Study phases include qualitatively identifying important factors that contribute to successful translation, co-designing a toolkit of actionable, context-specific strategies to guide translation initiatives, and testing the toolkit in a small pilot implementation study. Results: Results: Study phase 1 is in progress but key practical learnings about academic-clinical partnerships have already emerged. Alignment between academic objectives and clinical needs is not always a fast-track to success, communication is complex, and key translational issues may arise before the study designed to investigate them has even started. Conclusion: Conclusion: Journeying across the translational gap is fraught with challenge but academic-clinical partnerships are essential to realise the potential impact of telerehabilitation on service access, delivery, and outcomes. Readiness for bilateral contribution seems important to turn ‘collaboration’ into ‘partnership’. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/1503 |
Internal ID Number: | 01462 |
Health Subject: | IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE TELEREHABILITATION CARDIAC REHABILITATION |
Type: | Conference Presentation |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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