title: Dissemination strategies: the evolution of learning resources on the evaluation of delirium, dementia, and depression.
abstract: Clinicians experience great pressures to provide timely, effective, and evidence-based medical care. Educators can aid these clinicians through the development of new tools that can facilitate timely completion of clinical tasks. These tools should summarize evidence-based information in a convenient format that allows easy use. This article describes one process in which a group of Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center educators identified an area where important new information accrued, their development of a new clinical and teaching tool for imparting the new information, the initial dissemination of the tool to a preliminary target audience, and the initial evaluation of the new tool to determine how to improve its distribution and use beyond the original target audience.
authors.affiliation: New England Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA. Kathy.Horvath@va.gov
authors.forename: Kathy J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Horvath
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tumosa
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thielke
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moorer
authors.forename: Terri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huh
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cooley
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Craft
authors.forename: Theressa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D003693:Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D011594:Psychometrics; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013637:Tape Recording; D013663:Teaching