Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Aisling O'Leary, Shay Keating, Aileen Singleton, Sheila Heffernan, Eamon Keenan, Lisa Robson, Jess Sears, John Moloney, Sanjeev Arora, Colm Bergin, Suzanne Norris
The Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) project is a novel educational intervention designed in New Mexico to transfer subspecialty knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) to primary care providers, thereby increasing patient access to HCV care. The ECHO model has been shown to deliver educational benefits and to result in good treatment outcomes for HCV-infected individuals in the USA; however, this approach has not been assessed in a European setting. We sought to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and implementation of the ECHO model in Ireland using a pilot study...
July 2017: BMJ Innovations