Join invited participants and speakers for the virtual portion of this event. This 1.5-day Summit will advance the science and practice of using patient-centered outcomes in Learning Health Systems. The Summit’s unique hybrid format allows for in-person workgroups for invited participants and uses a webinar platform to engage a wider virtual audience. Participants will include health systems leadership, rehabilitation researchers, trainees, persons with lived experiences and clinicians.

The first day of the Summit will include sessions on: 1) Selecting Patient Centered Outcome Measures 2) Capturing Standardized Patient Centered Outcome Measures 3) Accessing Data: Building Data Infrastructure and 4) Analyzing Outcomes Data. The second day of the Summit will include a session on Utilizing Data to Inform Care followed by separate breakout groups for in-person attendees related to each of the sessions to discuss the state of the science and practice, challenges and facilitators, and next steps to move forward.

Join invited participants and speakers for the virtual portion of this event. This 1.5-day Summit will advance the science and practice of using patient-centered outcomes in Learning Health Systems. The Summit’s unique hybrid format allows for in-person workgroups for invited participants and uses a webinar platform to engage a wider virtual audience. Participants will include health systems leadership, rehabilitation researchers, trainees, persons with lived experiences and clinicians.

The first day of the Summit will include sessions on: 1) Selecting Patient Centered Outcome Measures 2) Capturing Standardized Patient Centered Outcome Measures 3) Accessing Data: Building Data Infrastructure and 4) Analyzing Outcomes Data. The second day of the Summit will include a session on Utilizing Data to Inform Care followed by separate breakout groups for in-person attendees related to each of the sessions to discuss the state of the science and practice, challenges and facilitators, and next steps to move forward.

Equity continues to garner attention in the field of implementation science. Coming from a learning perspective of a researcher working in different settings, this presentation will offer some suggestions as to how to embed equity in implementation studies, with a focus on how to reach participants in studies.

Despite research and treatment advances in healthcare, the implementation of research evidence into practice remains a challenge, especially for historically marginalized populations. Despite numerous calls to action to integrate health equity into implementation science, little progress toward better integration of these approaches has been hampered by the theoretical and aspirational nature of calls-to-action up to the present time. In this talk we present three case examples from our work to illustrate how to synergize health equity research and implementation science focusing on the processes and practices located at the intersection of these fields. These three distinct studies focused on reducing mental health inequities in historically marginalized communities, namely Latino and Black individuals in mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Racial and ethnic health disparities following medical rehabilitation for traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) are well documented among medical rehabilitation populations. The current evidence suggests that survivors of traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds report fewer functional gains during rehabilitation, more secondary complications including pressure injuries, pain interference, and pain severity and longer and more frequent rehospitalizations. People living with chronic SCI from minority backgrounds are also more likely to report unemployment post-injury, lower quality of life, and less physical activity than non-Hispanic Whites. Few studies have sought to explain these disparities. The purpose of this talk is to explore the intersection of racial and ethnic health disparities after tSCI with geographic variation in neighborhood economic resources and socioeconomic disadvantage using data from a national registry of adults with traumatic injuries.