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Unifying And Quality Assuring Disparate Health Silos With A Common Data Model
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$735,795.00
Summary
Australia has silos of disconnected data holdings across various domains in community, primary and secondary care settings, with disparate terminologies, data models and data quality assurance mechanisms. Mapping MedicineInsight, a national general practice data repository, to a common data model can contribute to unifying Australia's digital data assets. There are cost-efficiencies and benefits from sharing interoperable data and tools for large-scale multicentre and multisystem data analytics.
A National Aged Care Medication Roundtable - Translating Aged Care Data Into Action To Improve Quality Of Care Through Collaboration And Co-design
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,444,499.00
Summary
Older Australians with the most complex health needs live in residential care. Greater than 80% of residents are on five or more medications daily, and 40% are taking 10 or more. Poor medication management is the greatest source of complaint to the Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission. This project will provide timely information to a group of providers and consumers about the medicines residents receive, identify problem areas and trial innovative interventions to address these issues.
Establishing A Digital Health Foundation For Outcomes-based Diagnostic Excellence, Safety And Value
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,027,501.00
Summary
Our partnership proposal will lead to the development of a digital infrastructure (involving big data resources and sophisticated decision support systems) as a foundation for outcomes-based research, optimised clinical care processes and translation into policy and practice. The partnership will encompass key research areas involving the quality, safety and value of care in musculoskeletal care, infectious diseases, diabetes care and emergency/intensive care.
A Digital Sexual Health Hub: Co-design, Development And Evaluation Of An Online Sexual Health Clinic
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,424,364.00
Summary
Sexually transmitted infection rates have increased dramatically in recent years in Australia, with major health consequences - congenital syphilis is killing babies, chlamydia in females is causing pelvic inflammatory disease, increasing the risk of infertility, and drug-resistant gonorrhoea is an urgent global threat. Our specialist sexual health services are at capacity. We will develop an innovative online sexual health hub providing online testing and treatment for STIs and HIV.
Parenting+ Improving Health And Service-use Outcomes Through Health Literacy Training For New Parents: An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$495,761.00
Summary
The Parenting+ project will evaluate an educational program for socio-economically and culturally diverse new parents. The study will assess the impact of the program on parents' health literacy, parent and infant health and psychosocial outcomes and health service use over one year. It additionally will identify key characteristics and reproducible steps in the successful implementation of the program in order to support wider adoption by other health services.
Developing A Model Of Preventative Healthcare For People With Intellectual Disability
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,244,756.00
Summary
People with intellectual disability face stark health inequalities, die prematurely from potentially avoidable causes and experience poor access to preventative health care. Access to preventative health care is one of the key pillars of Australia's long-term national health plan. This project will find out why there are gaps in preventative health care for people with intellectual disability, determine how these gaps affect people and develop a new model of health care.
A national collaboration to generate new knowledge, co-design, implement, evaluate and measure individual and organisational level interventions that will address key barriers to leadership across capacity, perceived capability and credibility and cultural diversity, to successful advance women in healthcare leadership. This work is highly prioritised by partners and in a policy context.
Community Health Workers Extending Care In The Community
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,004,341.00
Summary
Community Health Workers (CHW) have an important potential role in bridging the transition between hospital and community. With consumer co-researchers and our partners, we will co-design a model of CHW follow up and support care following hospitalisation. We will then conduct a trial to evaluate their implementation and impact on hospital readmission, health outcomes and value for money. With our partners, we will then translate them into policy, and practice.
A Practice Change Intervention To Increase The Routine Provision Of Care Addressing Gestational Weight Gain: A Stepped-wedge Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$734,163.00
Summary
Unhealthy weight gain during pregnancy contributes to a range of adverse outcomes for the mother and child. Despite guidelines recommending routine weighing and weight gain care be provided by antenatal services, less than 10% of health professionals provide such care, and 50-70% of women gain weight outside of recommended levels during pregnancy. This study aims to determine if a practice change intervention can increase antenatal clinician delivery of recommended gestational weight gain care.
Improving Physical Activity And Screen Time In Outside School Hours Care Through Evidence-based Guidelines: An Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,398,570.00
Summary
This study aims to lift the standards of physical activity and screen time offerings in Out of School Hours Care services throughout Australia, by implementing and evaluating newly developed Australian OSHC physical activity and screen time guidelines. The guidelines will be evaluated in a rigorous trial in OSHC services in SA, NSW and WA, prior to national release and evaluation Australia-wide.