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NewsCAHO Receives $6.3 million from Ontario Government to Support ARTIC Program July 14, 2011—The Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO) is delighted to learn that the Ontario Government will invest $6.3 million into the CAHO Adopting Research to Improve Care (ARTIC) Program – a program aimed at moving research evidence from the bench to the bedside to drive quality and improve patient care. BackgroundCAHO launched the Adopting Research to Improve Care (ARTIC) Program in 2010 to foster better collaboration and establish a systematic approach to moving research evidence from the bench to the bedside. The aim of the program is to move research evidence into practice from one hospital across the CAHO community in order to drive quality improvement and benefit the health care system as a whole. While creating health care innovations is a formidable task, what is often more challenging is the successful and rapid adoption of innovation into the practice of health care. Many in the health care sector have successfully shared best practices within their own organizations, professions and sometimes across communities of care such as paediatrics or mental health. However, as a health care system, Ontario has yet to realize the full potential of sharing best practices and systematizing efforts to move research evidence into practice. Too often, we have found pathways to improve care and drive quality improvement in the health care system, but that knowledge never leaves the organization that created it. The ARTIC Program is resolved to address this challenge, and build a strong health research enterprise in Ontario. To read more about the ARTIC Program, click here. Current ARTIC ProjectsSince its inception, the ARTIC Program has successfully launched 4 projects, each addressing a critical health need. The CAHO ARTIC Projects include: CAHO ASP ARTIC Project: improving antimicrobial use in intensive care units |
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