ORCA

What is ORCA?

• ORCA is the Organizational Readiness for Change Assessment
• Developed early in the history of the Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) QUERI program https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-4-38
  • Purpose: to understand whether or not organizations were, in the perception of the people involved, ready to make changes to conform to new evidence based practices https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-4-67
• Three primary scales (Evidence, Context, Facilitation)
  • Note: no overall score summing across all three scales
  • 19 sub-scales
  • 77 items

The ORCA was developed as par of US Federal government work and is in the public domain. Please acknowledge the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative as a source.

The instrument was developed by Anne Sales, PhD and Nancy Sharp, PhD and validation study conduced by Christian Helfrich, PhD.