Development of learning health system competency items related to health and healthcare equity and justice for rehabilitation researchers

Pamela M. Dunlap; Kathleen M. Poploski; Catherine A. Anderson; Thiru M. Annaswamy; Melissa A. Clark; Peter C. Coyle; Natalie F. Douglas; Ann Marie Flores; Janet K. Freburger; Brian J. Hafner; Kenneth J. Harwood; Jeanne M. Hoffman; Adam R. Kinney; Linda Resnik; Kristin Ressel; Margarite J. Whitten; Christine M. McDonough

doi:10.1002/lrh2.10484

Development of learning health system competency items related to health and healthcare equity and justice for rehabilitation researchers

Pamela M. Dunlap^*, Kathleen M. Poploski, Catherine A. Anderson, Thiru M. Annaswamy, Melissa A. Clark, Peter C. Coyle, Natalie F. Douglas, Ann Marie Flores, Janet K. Freburger, Brian J. Hafner, Kenneth J. Harwood, Jeanne M. Hoffman, Adam R. Kinney, Linda Resnik, Kristin Ressel, Margarite J. Whitten, Christine M. McDonough

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Introduction: In 2021, the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn) developed and administered a needs assessment survey, based on the Agency on Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) original seven domains of learning health systems (LHS) researcher core competencies, to identify knowledge and interest in LHS research competencies among rehabilitation researchers. In 2022, the AHRQ added a new health and healthcare equity and justice (HE) domain to the existing seven domains for LHS researcher core competencies. Methods: LeaRRn utilized methods similar to those employed in the development of their original needs assessment survey to generate and refine competency items for the HE domain. In this report, we describe the methods used to develop these HE competency items. Results & Conclusions: Other training programs and LHS researchers may use the competency items developed for this needs assessment survey to identify training opportunities in the HE domain.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Learning Health Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10484
State	Accepted/In press - 2025

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This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant number: 1P2CHD101895\u201001) through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Nursing Research, and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH (grant number: TL1TR001858). This work was not supported by Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and does not necessarily represent the views of the VA or the United States Government.

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competency assessment
health equity
learning health systems
rehabilitation

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Health Informatics
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Information Management

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Dunlap, P. M., Poploski, K. M., Anderson, C. A., Annaswamy, T. M., Clark, M. A., Coyle, P. C., Douglas, N. F., Flores, A. M., Freburger, J. K., Hafner, B. J., Harwood, K. J., Hoffman, J. M., Kinney, A. R., Resnik, L., Ressel, K., Whitten, M. J., & McDonough, C. M. (Accepted/In press). Development of learning health system competency items related to health and healthcare equity and justice for rehabilitation researchers. Learning Health Systems. https://doi.org/10.1002/lrh2.10484

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