Since 2015, Homewood Research Institute (HRI) has partnered with Homewood Health Centre to collect data from patients who receive treatment in the Centre’s Addiction Medicine Service (AMS).
Originally known as Post-Discharge Outcomes Monitoring or PDO, this data-collection system is led by HRI researchers and was piloted to allow for the rigorous and ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of Homewood’s program by collecting and analyzing data from patients as they navigate their first year of recovery after treatment.
HRI is pleased to announce that, as of April 30, 2018, the PDO system has a new name and has been embedded into regular practice within the Addiction Medicine Service. Clinical data is collected by AMS staff while patients are receiving inpatient treatment. Following discharge, patients are then invited by HRI to take part in research on the recovery process.
Now known as the Recovery Journey Project, this collaborative effort is one of the only longitudinal studies in Canada designed to measure key indicators of recovery over time. The Recovery Journey Project will help us better understand the recovery process among those who receive mental health and addiction treatment. In this way, it will guide improvements to programs and lead the way to measurement-based services – at Homewood and beyond.
To mark the launch of the Recovery Journey Project as a fully integrated research study at Homewood, HRI has created a microsite outlining the project’s key features and findings. Updates and knowledge translation activities will be shared as the study progresses.
What’s Next?
The potential impact of the Recovery Journey Project is vast: this framework can be utilized to measure recovery outcomes across a range of treatment domains. Currently, the system is being refined for implementation within other Homewood Health programs.
For updates on the Recovery Journey Project, subscribe to HRI Connects or visit recoveryjourneyproject.com.