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Updating Icd-10-Am/Achi/Acs, Anne M. Elsworthy

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Powerpoint presentation presented at the HIMAA 2012 National Conference

Pcoc National Report On Outcomes In Palliative Care In Australia July To December 2011, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) was established in mid-2005 and is funded under the National Palliative Care Program supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The goal of the PCOC is to use standardised, validated, clinical assessment tools to benchmark and measure outcomes in palliative care; and assist palliative care services to improve the quality of care. Further information on the tools can be found at www.pcoc.org.au. Each service involved in PCOC submits data every six months. The data are then collated and fed back to services to inform service improvement. Participation in PCOC is voluntary. …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - Queensland, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - New South Wales, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Introduction PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - Victoria, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - South Australia, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Researching The Safety Of Indigenous Children And Youth: An Urban Perspective, Kathleen F. Clapham, Freidoon Khavarpour, Reuben J. Bolt, Mark Stevenson, Steven Su

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Injury is one of the leading causes of Indigenous mortality in Australia and safety in Indigenous communities has become increasingly prominent in commentary on Indigenous communities. However, our knowledge of urban Indigenous people and their experiences has been largely ignored in these debates; most of the discussions to date have focused on remote areas, despite the fact that around one-third of Indigenous Australians live in urban settings. This paper reports on the Safe Koori Kids study, which addressed the safety of Indigenous children, carried out in Sydney's outer metropolitan area of Campbelltown between 2006 and 2009 (Clapham et al. 2006a, …

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Supporting Information, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James P. Dawber, Wendy S. Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, Simon Eckermann, Darcy Morris, Pamela E. Grootemaat, David L. Fildes

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.

Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes Of Practice Program: Compendium Of Data Requirements And Evaluation Tools, Cristina J. Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, Robert Gordon, Kathryn E. Williams, Patrea R. Andersen, Milena Snoek, Simon Eckermann, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The evaluation of the Expanded Scopes of Practice (ESOP) Program is structured to include data collection at the local; sub-project and national leve l. Local projects are responsible for conducting their own project evaluation within the overarching framework of the national evaluation. This means that projects will collect a range of data to support evaluation activities. In some cases this data will be analysed locally and for other evaluation activiti es it will be analysed by the NET. The National Evaluation Team will not finalise the sub-project data analyses until the first quarter of 2014.

Referral Patterns And Proximity To Palliative Care Inpatient Services By Level Of Socio-Economic Disadvantage. A National Study Using Spatial Analysis., David C. Currow, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird, Patsy Yates, Joanne Lewis, James P. Dawber, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Background A range of health outcomes at a population level are related to differences in levels of social disadvantage. Understanding the impact of any such differences in palliative care is important. The aim of this study was to assess, by level of socio-economic disadvantage, referral patterns to specialist palliative care and proximity to inpatient services. Methods All inpatient and community palliative care services nationally were geocoded (using postcode) to one nationally standardised measure of socio-economic deprivation - Socio- Economic Index for Areas (SEIFA; 2006 census data). Referral to palliative care services and characteristics of referrals were described through data collected …

Building Better Systems Of Care For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People: Findings From The Kanyini Health Systems Assessment, David Peiris, Alex Brown, Michael Howard, Bernadette A. Rickards, Andrew Tonkin, Ian T. Ring, Noel Hayman, Alan Cass

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Background

Australian federal and jurisdictional governments are implementing ambitious policy initiatives intended to improve health care access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In this qualitative study we explored Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) staff views on factors needed to improve chronic care systems and assessed their relevance to the new policy environment.

Methods

Two theories informed the study: (1) 'candidacy', which explores "the ways in which people's eligibility for care is jointly negotiated between individuals and health services"; and (2) kanyini or 'holding', a Central Australian philosophy which describes the principle and obligations of nurturing and protecting …

Implementing Practice Change: Some Guiding Principles, Malcolm Masso

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care (EBPRAC) Program:

13 two-year projects, each implementing evidence in one area of clinical practice, with total funding of $12 million:

– Nutrition and hydration
– Pain management
– Falls prevention
– Oral health
– PRN medications
– Palliative care (3 projects)
– Behaviour management (3 projects)
– Infection control
– Wound management

Model: lead organisation, each working with a group of facilities.

Nurse Practitioner-Palliative Care At Royal Perth Hospital: An Evaluation Using The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (Pcoc) Quality Improvement Program, Natalie Panizza, Tanya Pidgeon

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Background: In 2010, Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) appointed its first Nurse Practitioner (NP) working in palliative care. To evaluate this service delivery, four key palliative care benchmarks from the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) were used. These are, benchmark (BM) One: Referral to first contact (responsiveness), Two: Time in the unstable phase (timely management of acuity), Three: Change in pain (pain management), and Four: Change in other symptoms relative to the national average (benchmarking with other specialised palliative care services).

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Program Evaluation: Tool Kit, Heather Yeatman, Karen Quinsey, James Dawber, W Nielsen, Deanne Condon-Paoloni, Simon Eckermann, Darcy Morris, Pamela Grootemaat, David Fildes

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - Queensland, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve. This report is broken into four sections:

Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.

Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.

Section …

Value Of Information And Pricing New Healthcare Interventions, Andrew R. Willan, Simon Eckermann

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Previous application of value-of-information methods to optimal clinical trial design have predominantly taken a societal decision-making perspective, implicitly assuming that healthcare costs are covered through public expenditure and trial research is funded by government or donation-based philanthropic agencies. In this paper, we consider the interaction between interrelated perspectives of a societal decision maker (e.g. the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] in the UK) charged with the responsibility for approving new health interventions for reimbursement and the company that holds the patent for a new intervention. We establish optimal decision making from societal and company perspectives, allowing for …

The Need To Evaluate Public Health Reforms: Australian Perinatal Mental Health Initiatives, Marie-Paule Austin, Nicole M. Reilly, Elizabeth Sullivan

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Objective: To describe the Australian perinatal mental health reforms and explore ways of improving surveillance of maternal mental health morbidity and mortality in this context. Approaches: We reviewed the Australian perinatal (defined as conception to one year postpartum) mental health reforms, in association with an appraisal of the population health methods that could be used for their evaluation. Conclusion: Despite the increasing focus of public health reforms on maternal mental health in the perinatal period, there is currently no national data available to evaluate these reforms or to provide an evidence base for improved health outcomes. National data development and …

Icd-10-Am/Achi/Acs - Eighth Edition Overview, Anne M. Elsworthy

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Powerpoint presentation presented at HIMAA 2012 National Conference, Gold Coast, Qld.

Pcoc National Report On Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care In Australia January - June 2012, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into four sections:

Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.

Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.

Section …

The Chronicle: Icd-10-Am/Achi/Acs, Susan M. Claessen

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Powerpoint presentation presented at the HIMAA 2012 National Conference

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - Western Australia, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into four sections:

Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.

Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.

Section …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - Victoria, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into four sections:

Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.

Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.

Section …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - South Australia, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into four sections:

Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.

Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.

Section …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - Western Australia, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.

This report is broken into three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Evaluation Of The Alzheimer's Australia National Dementia Care Initiative: Fourth Progress Report, Anita B. Westera, Cristina J. Thompson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

This fourth progress report charts the developments in Alzheimer's Australia National Quality Dementia Care Initiative (NQDCI) since the submission of the previous progress report and the 'Report of the Interim Evaluation of the Consumer Dementia Research Network'. It covers the period from May 2011 through to the end of June 2012. The focus of activity has been on: - The completion of contracts, commencement of governance arrangements and project activities for the three projects funded under Round 1 of the National Quality Dementia Care Network (NQDCN); - The refinement of project proposals relating to Round 2 of the NQDCN, their …

Asthma Management Program: Seventh Evaluation Progress Report, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, James Dawber, David Fildes, Pamela Grootemaat, Peter Samsa, Robert Gordon

Australian Health Services Research Institute

In December 2009, the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD), University of Wollongong, was appointed by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) as the National Evaluator of the Asthma Management Program (AMP) 2009-10 to 2012-13. This is the seventh of eight evaluation progress reports which will be prepared over the course of the evaluation. This report provides a summary of the activities carried out by CHSD from 1 March 2012 to 30 June 2012. As the National Evaluator, the role of CHSD is to evaluate the Program as a whole, as well as to provide support and …

Usability Testing Of The New Assessment System For Aged Care, Alan G. Owen, Helen M. Hasan, Peter D. Samsa, Janet E. Sansoni

Australian Health Services Research Institute

This report provides a stand-alone description of how the national model for assessment in aged care was received when reviewed by the relevant reference groups and when demonstrated to experienced assessors. It covers the preliminary testing of a system that operates across three levels to guide the people requesting assistance to the set of aged care services that they need. The overall aim of the new assessment system has been to simplify and streamline information so it can be used in a practical way in the field to plan how best to meet those needs. The purpose of collecting assessment …

Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes Of Practice Program: Evaluation Framework, Cristina Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Robert Gordon, Kathryn Williams, Simon Eckermann, Patrea Andersen, Milena Snoek, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

In June 2012, the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD), University of Wollongong, was appointed by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) as the national evaluator of the Expanded Scopes of Practice (ESOP) Program. This report provides the current iteration of the evaluation framework for HWA Australia's ESOP Program. HWA through this Program has initiated a range of projects that support implementation of the National Health Workforce Innovation and Reform Strategic Framework for Action 2011-2015. The ESOP Program (also referred to as the 'Program'), has been developed as part of the corresponding HWA work plan. This evaluation framework aims to ensure a …

The Gp Dementia Risk Reduction Education Project: Literature Review And Formative Research With General Practitioners, Lyn Phillipson, Sandra C. Jones

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Illawarra Division of General Practice (IDGP) has received funding from NSW Health to conduct the GP Dementia Risk Reduction Education Project. This project aims to educate general practitioners (GPs) and practice nurses (PNs) in general practice settings on the link between hypertension and dementia in the 45 years and over age group and to encourage the application of evidence-based blood pressure screening & management in general practice settings. The program aims to support the implementation of strategies with patients that seek to avoid or minimise the risk of hypertension (and therefore dementia) over the long term. The primary target …

Report Of The Interim Evaluation Of The Consumer Dementia Research Network, Anita B. Westera, Cristina J. Thompson, Darcy Morris, James Dawber, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.