Virtual Mentored Implementation to Improve Care Transitions in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Protocol for a Pragmatic Implementation Study

Cathryn T Lee   ¹ , MD, MS ;   Leah Traeger   ¹ , MHA ;   Mahima Akula   ¹ , BA ;   April E Fegley   ² , BA ;   Jenna Goldstein   ² , MA ;   Kim Erwin   ³ , MDes ;   Laura J Damschroder   ⁴ , MPH ;   Jean Rommes   ⁵ , PhD ;   Hannah Pick   ⁶ , MA ;   Andrew Auerbach   ⁷ , MD ;   Peter Lindenauer   ⁸ , MD ;   Wen Wan   ¹ , PhD ;   Andrea Jackson Sagredo   ¹ , MS ;   Valerie G Press   ¹ , MD, MPH

¹ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

² Society of Hospital Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States

³ Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ Implementation Pathways LLC, Chelsea, MI, United States

⁵ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Foundation, Des Moines, IA, United States

⁶ Onda Collective LLC, Chicago, IL, United States

⁷ Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁸ Division of Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School- Baystate, Springfield, MA, United States