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vaccination

Influenza outbreaks place a significant annual burden on the Australian healthcare system. There is well documented evidence that increasing rates of influenza vaccination, especially amongst high...

woman waiting for caesarean

Development and implementation of a program to optimise recovery after elective caesareans and enable earlier discharge for healthy, well women and their babies after elective caesarean sections (...

concerned patient

An after hours, multidisciplinary team based approach to care for Patients of Concern. Facilitated by the introduction of new nursing and medical leadership positions to provide: proactive...

Emergency Department bed

In response to the October 2018 introduction of a new high-sensitivity cardiac Troponin assay (hsTnI) blood test to all Queensland Health Hospitals, the Accelerated Chest pain Risk Evaluation (...

flying

The flying surgical services initiative is an agreement between South West Hospital and Health Service (SWHHS), Central West Hospital and Health Service (CWHHS) and Metro North Hospital and Health...

patient flow - preventing bedblock

Solutions were implemented to address Patient flow difficulties - with delayed discharges on the Mater Public Postnatal Unit causing bed block and impacting Birth Suite, Antenatal Unit and...

suicide prevention in the Emergency Department

To overcome the limitations inherent to the recording of suicidal presentations to Emergency Departments (EDs), Gold Coast Mental Health Services developed a machine learning algorithm - Searching...

orthopaedics

Gold Coast Health pilot tested a shared governance business model in the orthopaedics department. Shared governance is a decentralised management approach, that grants clinical departmental leads...

Health application to reach out to patients

a.    Determining that healthcare providers better understand the patient perspective when using eAPP-enabled Patient Reporting Experience Measures (PREM) feedback

b. ...

central line drip

Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in neonatal intensive care is associated with mortality, morbidity, increased length of stay and increased healthcare costs. Implementing a...

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Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Services (CHQHHS) has empowered its workforce, young people, families and care partners to pursue innovative ways to minimise...