Description

The Veteran s Administration (VA) Office of Research and Development, Regional Procurement Office East in Pittsburgh, PA intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with Janelle Sue Taylor, PhD based in Toronto, Ontario on behalf of the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. The requirement is to provide research assistance for planned VA medical studies. The planned studies focus on Ethnographic Methodological Expertise for research study titled CONSERVE-CKM: Study on Care of Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease. The planned studies follow preliminary studies based on the same subject. This service contract covers services including providing content and methodological expertise in ethnographic research methods, health systems implementation, and advanced kidney disease. The contractor shall provide research support, guidance, and training across the life of the study and will work under the supervision of the VA Principal Investigator (PI) to serve as an ethnographic, methodological, and content expert in ethnography and health system processes for kidney disease. Vendor will collaborate with the PI and meet with the research team and collaborators monthly to complete the tasks below. Tasks and Deliverables Task 1 Guidance and Training for Qualitative Interviews Provide input and ethnographic content expertise on training of interviewers and development of interview guides for qualitative interviews with Veterans, caregivers and clinicians that elicit care processes and factors that promote or hinder effective delivery of healthcare and outcomes for patients with advanced kidney disease who are unsure or do not wish to forgo dialysis. As interviews will be conducted longitudinally, approach should elicit changes in experiences and processes over time. The Vendor will also provide guidance on sampling strategy to allow for depth and nuance in elucidation of emergent themes related to the care of these Veterans. Task 2 Guidance and Training for Clinical Field Observations Provide input and ethnographic content expertise on training of project staff in field observations and approaches to field observations of care interactions between Veterans, caregivers, and clinicians. As field observations will be conducted in a variety of settings (i.e. home, emergency departments, hospital) and modalities (i.e., in-person, phone, video) in which care occurs, approaches will need to be adapted to each setting and modality. Task 3 Guidance and Training for Field Observations of Lived Experiences with Kidney Disease Provide input and content expertise on training project staff in field observations of lived experiences of patients with kidney disease. As lived experiences of kidney disease is highly varied and will include a diversity of times, settings and activities, approaches will need to be facile and dynamic for each patient. Task 4 - Guidance and Training in Artifact Collection and Review Provide guidance on strategy for artifact collection and review of ar…

Classification

Contracting Office

Contacts

Attachments (1)

• Attachment 1