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Exploring the factors impacting choice and quality of overnight private hospital stays and consumer perspectives on patient reported experience measures (PREMs) in Australia: a qualitative interview study – Krista Verlis et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-08-02T11:36:09+10:00Health professionals, Health system, Insurance, PROMS, Publications|

Patient reported experience measures (PREMs) are tools often utilised in hospitals to support quality improvements and to provide objective feedback on care experiences. Less commonly PREMs can be used to support consumers choices in their hospital care. Little is known about the experience and views [...]

Perceptions of advice for acute low back pain: a content analysis of qualitative data collected in a randomised experiment – Lidiya Augustine et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-07-31T11:27:39+10:00Back pain, Clinical guidelines, Health professionals, Low back pain, Musculoskeletal, Pain, Publications|

Guidelines commonly recommend healthcare professionals to provide advice to people with acute LBP that explains the nature of LBP, its typically favourable prognosis, and also recommend that people are advised to stay active, avoid bed rest and remain at work. Two other approaches, advice based [...]

InSight Plus – How can we improve health literacy in Australia?

Krista Verlis2024-07-29T14:01:33+10:00Health literacy, Health professionals, Health system, News|

Up to 60% of Australians have low health literacy, which is associated with poor health outcomes. To improve health literacy, there are many ways we could provide better support for health professionals and the communities they serve. Health literacy means being able to access, understand, appraise [...]

Lifestyle advice from general practitioners and changes in health-related behaviour in Australia: secondary analysis of 2020–21 National Health Survey data – Loai Albarqouni et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-12T17:42:22+10:00Clinical guidelines, Health professionals, Primary Care, Publications, Risk|

Lifestyle factors — smoking, alcohol consumption, inadequate dietary levels of fruit and vegetables — are major risk factors for chronic medical conditions. The importance of clinicians encouraging people to modify their lifestyles is emphasised in many guidelines. A study that included 4716 American adults found that patient-reported [...]

Effectiveness of implementation strategies for increasing clinicians’ use of five validated imaging decision rules for musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review – Priti Kharel et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-08-09T15:49:31+10:00Audit and feedback, Choosing Wisely, Clinical guidelines, Decision aids, Health professionals, Imaging, Musculoskeletal, Overuse, Publications|

Strategies to enhance clinicians’ adherence to validated imaging decision rules and increase the appropriateness of imaging remain unclear. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of various implementation strategies for increasing clinicians’ use of five validated imaging decision rules (Ottawa Ankle Rules, [...]

Kidney trajectory charts improve GP management of patients with reduced kidney function: a randomised controlled vignette study – Michelle Guppy et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-04T12:22:26+10:00Ageing, Health professionals, Kidney, Overdiagnosis, Primary Care, Publications|

This randomised case vignette study showed that having access to a chart that graphs percentile kidney function (eGFR) by age was associated with more appropriate management review periods for the patient cases with reduced kidney function. In the case of the older woman with stable [...]

Factors influencing the implementation of early discharge hospital at home and admission avoidance hospital at home: a qualitative evidence synthesis – Jason A Wallis et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-04-07T12:50:24+10:00Ageing, Emergency Department, Health professionals, Health system, Publications, Shared decision making, Virtual Care/Telehealth|

Worldwide there is an increasing demand for Hospital at Home as an alternative to hospital admission. Although there is a growing evidence base on the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of Hospital at Home, health service managers, health professionals and policy makers require evidence on how to [...]

Integrating a climate lens into the design of education programmes for health professionals – Tara Tai-Wen Chen et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-02-13T13:51:26+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, Health professionals, Health system, Policy, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Climate change should be incorporated in to educational and training programmes for all health professionals to ensure they are able to urgently adapt and transition our health systems to low carbon and low waste models of care and to become climate resilient. However, the uptake [...]

Attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and perspectives on barriers and enablers of Australian general practitioners towards non-drug interventions: a national survey – Loai Albarqouni et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-02-11T15:15:06+11:00Health professionals, Prescribing, Primary Care, Publications, Treatment|

Many guidelines recommend non-drug interventions (NDIs) for managing common conditions in primary care. However, compared with drug interventions, NDIs are less widely known, promoted and used. We aim to (1) examine general practitioners’ (GPs’) knowledge, attitudes and practices for NDIs, including their use of the [...]

Attitudes, knowledge and practice regarding the anti-müllerian hormone test among general practitioners and reproductive specialists: A cross-sectional study – Tessa Copp et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-02-11T15:09:59+11:00Fertility, Health professionals, Public comprehension, Publications, Women's health|

Although clinicians acknowledged the limitations of the AMH test in predicting natural conception and would not offer the AMH test in the hypothetical scenario, many reported having used the test in their clinical practice for reasons not supported by the evidence (e.g. reproductive planning). Further, [...]

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