Collaboration across clinical practice, education and research (CER)
Collaboration across clinical practice, education and research (CER)
At Regional Hospital of Central Denmark, we connect clinical practice, education and research (CER) in new ways. We collaborate in CER to generate new knowledge that is quickly applied in daily clinical practice for the benefit of patients.
In this way, we improve patient pathways to meet future challenges, where more people will need hospital treatment, disease trajectories become more complex, and there is a shortage of workforce. In KUF, we solve future challenges together.
Regional Hospital of Central Denmark's four CERs/KUFs are established across professional specialties and composed of relevant clinicians, supervisors, educators and researchers. All departments and centers in the hospital are involved in CER/KUF work, and additionally the CERs/KUFs collaborate with municipalities, general practitioners and other stakeholders.
Four professional communities
CER/KUF Rehabilitation The overall ambition of CER/KUF Rehabilitation is to contribute to improving and strengthening current rehabilitation efforts in the hospital, but also to contribute to an innovative environment that develops new rehabilitation services internally in the hospital and across sectoral transitions. Rehabilitation services must accommodate and reflect patients' individual needs.
CER/KUF Optimization of patient pathways has ambition that there is continuous work on optimizing patient pathways in the hospital. CER/KUF Optimization of patient pathways wishes to create a platform consisting of knowledge and experiences concerning optimization and optimization initiatives in the respective departments and centers in the hospital.
CER/KUF Cross-sectoral pathways with interdisciplinary solutions The ambition for CER/KUF Cross-sectoral pathways with interdisciplinary solutions is to create better and more coherent pathways for citizens across hospitals, municipalities and general practice. This should be done through collaboration on projects within cross-sectoral pathways and interdisciplinary solutions. Citizens should be involved as stakeholders and experts in relevant contexts in the process. The initiatives should both create added value for the individual citizen and help support the transition to the nearby healthcare system.
CER/KUF Multimorbidity The ambition with CER/KUF Multimorbidity is that Regional Hospital of Central Denmark should have a decisive role and be directive for the work of ensuring the best health services for multimorbid patients through strengthened collaboration across the hospital and with other actors, where clinical practice, education and research should complement each other and thereby deliver the best treatment for patients with multimorbidity.
International collaboration on CER/KUF/CAG models
Regional Hospital of Central Jutland participates in international collaboration on establishing, starting up, developing, leading and evaluating CER/KUF models (Clinical Academic Integration Models or Groups (CAGs)) together with a number of international partners in Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Denmark, where KUFs/CAGs with different content and organization are already established or are being established.
We collaborate, among other things, on how CER/KUF/CAG:
- Contributes to faster translation of knowledge into clinical treatment
- Contributes to a whole systems approach to solving the challenges of delivering health in a healthcare system that better supports collaboration between clinicians and academics and the populations we serve
- Best works with clinical practice, education and research across departments, hospitals and sectors
On December 8, 2023, we held an international virtual workshop with the overall purpose of sharing knowledge and experiences about CER/KUF/CAG across different countries and health systems, as well as interest in establishing a more formal international network or partnership.
We also held a joint international conference and consensus meeting on June 19-20, 2024 in Aarhus entitled "The future of health care systems - Supporting clinical-academic integration for health system sustainability". The conference, held under the auspices of Aarhus University, Health, was organized in collaboration between Region Central Denmark (Region Midtjylland), Regional Hospital of Central Denmark and King's Health Partners in London.
