Bridging The Gap For Women With Gestational Diabetes: Supporting Prevention Of Type 2 Diabetes Through Improved Care Of A High Risk Group.
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$174,107.00
Summary
The strongest risk factor for women developing diabetes is having diabetes in pregnancy or Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Roughly half of women with GDM develop diabetes so regular GDM screening is critical alongside healthy lifestyle support, which can prevent diabetes developing. General Practice (GP) is where these activities should occur but the extent of GP delivery varies. This project will support GP delivery of these activities to improve the health of these high-risk women.
Stepping Up To Insulin: A Cluster Randomised Trial Of Team-based Transition To Insulin In Primary Care For Patients With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$796,751.00
Summary
Helping people control their diabetes through the best possible medical care is important. Most people with diabetes eventually need insulin yet this is a step in treatment that is often resisted by patients and GPs. This study will help GPs and Practice Nurses work with patients who have reached this stage make the change to insulin treatment in a safe, effective, convenient and timely way. This will have enormous benefits through reduced diabetes complications and improved quality of life.
Telehealth Facilitation Of Diabetes And Cardiovascular Care In Australia
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,224,834.00
Summary
Teleretinal imaging will be used to assess risk for diabetic retinopathy and cardiovascular disease and the value of this service will be used to implement a full suite of telehealth services using an already developed web-based open source software application that is made available to this project license free. The Telehealth service is expected to reduce the impact of chronic disease in Indigenous communities in a cost efficient manner and to reduce the health care disparity gap
Models Of Care And Health Professional Collaboration For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Identified As Requiring Insulin In General Practice
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$90,124.00
Summary
More insulin initiation for people with type 2 diabetes in general practice needs to occur because of the increasing prevalence of this condition and a relative shortage of specialists. Collaboration and coordination between primary and secondary care, and between doctors and nurses, may be important in achieving this. This study utilises a mixed method approach to explore the roles and relationships between the health professionals involved in this task and its impact on insulin initiation.
A Co-Designed Patient-Centred Model-of-Care For Gestational Diabetes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$128,224.00
Summary
Gestational diabetes affects more than 1 in 10 women and is becoming more common. It increases the risk of complications to the pregnancy and may also adversely affect the future health of the mother and her children. There has been little prior research into the best system of education and pregnancy care for women with gestational diabetes. We will work with these women to develop an innovative model for pregnancy care that provides individualised guidance to impact health positively.
Sustainability & Transferability Of An Effective Community Based Management System For Diabetes In Remote Indigenous Com
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$414,600.00
Summary
This project aims to improve systems for secondary prevention of CVD among Indigenous adults in remote communities in NW Queensland and ultimately to improve patient outcomes in this high risk group. The intervention is aimed at the three domains of health systems: the community and client group, clinical services and health management systems. The intervention is centred around increasing the capacity of Indigenous health Workers (IHW's) to manage recall and reminder systems for CHD in communit ....This project aims to improve systems for secondary prevention of CVD among Indigenous adults in remote communities in NW Queensland and ultimately to improve patient outcomes in this high risk group. The intervention is aimed at the three domains of health systems: the community and client group, clinical services and health management systems. The intervention is centred around increasing the capacity of Indigenous health Workers (IHW's) to manage recall and reminder systems for CHD in communities, supported by appropriate training and systems changes. The project will liaise closely with the client and community groups and aim to improve capacity for effective self-management of cardiovascular disease among clients. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of this complex intervention in 3 sites over two years, with 2 control communitiesRead moreRead less
General Practice Optimising Structured MOnitoring To Improve Clinical Outcomes In Type 2 Diabetes: GP-OSMOTIC T2D
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$864,980.00
Summary
We will study the use of a new technology, retrospective continuous glucose monitoring (r-CGM), to help achieve glucose targets for people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in General Practice (GP). This is important because controlling glucose levels improves disease outcomes and because T2D is mostly managed in GP where the majority of people are out of glucose target levels and GPs and patients currently don’t have a simple effective method for monitoring blood glucose levels to guide treatment.