L'utilizzo dei casi di studio per favorire l'apprendimento di metodologie e strumenti per lo sviluppo organizzativo o di percorsi di cura nelle aziende sanitarie

Education, in health care, is a great lever to orient behaviors. The usual training methods are not the most effective, especially in continuing or †œlong-life†� education. The primary objective is to determine if the †œcase study†� methodology, normally used in empirical research, can help health professionals to learn methods and tools about organizational and managerial domain, starting from description of processes, decisions, results in real contexts. The case studies were designed and built, with descriptive methodology, in two Local Health Authorities, the first-one in Piacenza and the second-one in Bologna. The cases have different study objects: the continuity of care in a cohort of patients with stroke and use of tools for monitoring the conditions of their autonomy; the adoption of †œpatient-centred†� approach in a patient with COPD at home and caregiver engagement into self-care and self-monitoring; the perception that caregivers, General Practitioners and other professionals have about Dementia and Alzheimer's network; the fallout of the training 2013 of pediatricians in their clinical activity. The case studies are accompanied by †œteaching note†� for teachers and have been subjected to 4 referees for the evaluation of methodology used and contents. The second case has been submitted to 130 professionals in the path of †œskills and potentials assessment†� realized in Bologna's Local Authority. The referees have commented on the contents of each case, the method of presentation and reading tools of the organization, emphasizing usability, approving the methodology used, the conjugation between different areas of clinical care and organizational areas, and teaching notes. They provided helpful suggestions for administration in education. At the end of each case there is the evaluation of each of the referees.