Clinical Partnership Engagement

By Bianca Pilla
4 min

Introduction

Engaging with Clinical Partners is core to the JBI Mission of seeing evidence-based healthcare globally impacting policy and practice through the local and context-specific activities of each JBIC Entity.

Clinical Partnership Engagement is for broad and diversified engagement with clinical partners for the purpose of contributing to JBIC Entity activities (i.e. co-creation of JBI Systematic Reviews), introducing Clinical Partners to EBP, training in JBI’s approach to synthesis, transfer, implementation etc. as determined by the needs of a JBIC Entity and their Clinical Partner.

To accrue points for this activity JBIC Entities must:

Provide evidence of an active relationship through engagement activities conducted with the clinical partner and its staff, using the JBI Model of Evidence-Based Healthcare, through the completion of an annual online evaluation. The Global Engagement Office will send a link to the online evaluation at the end of each year.

AND

Submission of at least one (1) of the following as supporting evidence of engagement:

  • Evidence of training programmes related to JBI activities within the clinical partnership: e.g. workshops/short courses/JBI CSRTP/EITP/ fellowships focused on EBHC/Research (using JBI methodology)

  • Evidence of Bespoke JBI resource training delivered within the organisation (awareness of JBI model; using JBI PACES/SUMARI; understanding Evidence Summaries etc) such as webinars, seminars, lunch & learn, Journal Club – provision of flyers/programs/attendance lists etc.

  • Evidence of the JBI model in practice i.e. published impact story/ case story/ blog

  • Evidence of annual report on JBI partnership activities delivered at executive /board level i.e. Annual report summary in Executive meeting minutes

  • Contribution to development of clinical guidelines and evidence summaries- i.e. published JBI evidence summaries, member of JBI Specialty Field ERG, evidence of JBI ES/RP in clinical guidelines

  • Evidence of implementation of clinical evidence in practice using JBI framework i.e. short report/blog/impact story/publication (including JBI implementation reports)

  • Reference to the JBI partnership in organisational strategic documents (upload of strategy document)

  • Evidence of working with Research & Development departments/health library services/clinical effectiveness teams/audit teams.

Engagement may be at unit, clinic or organisational wide levels, as determined by the JBIC Entity. JBI recognises that both JBIC Entities and their Clinical Partners have different needs, skills and available resources. Entities should therefore be free to exercise creativity and draw on their collective experience at working with local groups to transfer knowledge, skills and support a Clinical Partner in engaging with JBI evidence, tools and resources.

Examples of engagement strategies may include:

  • Create opportunity for, and facilitate a nominated clinical partner toward, JBI Endorsement

  • Bringing senior staff from a Clinical Partner onto the Core Staff list for your Entity and integrating the clinical partners EBHC needs and projects as an agenda item for Entity strategic and operational meetings.

  • Develop an annual calendar of training programs, events, activities and projects in conjunction with the clinical partner and circulate these opportunities throughout the clinical partners relevant departments

  • Launching and facilitating a journal club using JBI critical appraisal instruments

  • Providing brief sessions on EBHC, JBI Model, JBI Endorsement

  • Lunch time seminars to groups

  • Grand Rounds

  • Presenting at organisation research council/group meetings

  • Working with organisation librarians or health informatics to enable simple and easy access to JBI resources

  • Establishing EBHC champions and facilitators

Certainly, there are many more types of activities and strategies that Entities are already using. Please consider the above as suggestions, as they are not intended to be prescriptive or limiting.

Entities that are hosted by a clinical institution may nominate their host institution as their clinical partner, but would need to demonstrate that effort had been made to engage a wide network of staff outside of the Entity’s Core Staff through training, workshops, presentations and meetings.

NOTE: All  JBIC Clinical Partner Engagement Forms are to completed and returned to the Global Engagement Office by the 31st March for it to apply to the current year of reporting. Any Clinical Partner Registration Forms submitted after 31st March will be set up as Clinical Partners as of 1 January of the following year.

For further information on this please contact the Global Engagement Office jbic@adelaide.edu.au

 

 

 

 

CLINICAL PARTNERSHIP ENGAGEMENT REGISTRATION FORM

 

 

JBI Endorsement Case Story and/or JBI Impact Story- Author Guidelines

 

Download the guidelines here for further information on how to write and submit a JBI Case/Impact Story.



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