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Creating Clinical Networks: Leveraging Collaborative Partnerships to Enhance Innovation and Increase Access to Psychological Intervention in Pediatric Pain
Symposia
Session Description
Clinical networks are explicitly designed to mobilize health system change by promoting evidence-based practice and improving access to care (Manns & Wasylak, 2019). Moreover, they are adept at addressing key health system problems as they can effectively identify gaps in care, efficiently innovate, and support under resourced health systems. In this symposium, we will discuss how a clinical network has supported systematic integration of psychological skills training for adolescents with chronic pain and their parents/caregivers across variable pediatric health systems. exists, reducing gaps in psychological care such as problems with access, wait times, and clinical efficiency. The Comfort Ability Program (CAP), founded more than a decade ago, has developed a collaborative clinical network including over 30 children’s hospitals who have a shared goal of efficiently and effectively enhancing access to psychological care and for pediatric patients with chronic pain and their parents/caregivers (Coakley et al, 2018). This symposium will present CAP’s unique clinical network model--based on an implementation science framework--and present two illustrated case examples of network partnerships that addressed the challenging issues of low resources, limited healthcare access, and equity. Further, we will discuss how a specialized clinical network can generate collaborative research and spur ongoing innovation.