Traumatic events are a common cause for hospital presentations in Australia with 12,000 deaths per year attributable to injuries sustained as a result. Falls and transport related...
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![Why eConsultant?](/sites/default/files/styles/project_tablet/public/iexchange/2022-01/Poster_2_Clinical%20excellence.png?itok=4EpagGM9)
The Mater Hospital's eConsultant model, is an asynchronous GP-to-General Physician communication over secure messaging. eConsultant provides a formalised, efficient and documented method for...
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GIRFT Queensland provides a quality framework that supports clinicians to continually deliver high quality services, understand variations in care, and support equity of access and cost efficiency...
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A suite of mobile health (mHealth) services has been designed, implemented and evaluated as an adjunct to routine care in post-bariatric surgery patients to support behaviour change and...
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Occupational therapy staff specialising in hands are responsible for the rehabilitation and care of certain diagnostic groups post upper limb orthopaedic surgery in the expanded scope of practice...
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Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service (WBHHS) implemented the Shatter the Stigma (STS) program to address widespread misunderstanding about mental illness. We embedded within the Wide Bay HHS a...
Logan Hospital Emergency Department (ED) has developed several data capture solutions to enable informed analysis of its functioning, capacity, presentations, growth predictions, clinical...
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Early identification and timely referral of patients with acute foot disease has been shown to reduce hospitalisation and associated lower limb amputation rates. Providing foot screening...
![Orthopaedic surgeon looking at patient's hand](/sites/default/files/styles/project_tablet/public/iexchange/2021-11/hand.jpg?itok=x2YWI7Gw)
This optimised hand therapy service at Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) allows hand therapists to see an agreed cohort of less complex patients. It then in turn increases the capacity for our...
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The Queensland Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis study (QSAP) is a multi-centre, mixed-methods study designed to address barriers and enablers to Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis (SAP) compliance. It...
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