Evaluating a safety and efficacy protocol of a COVID-19 drive-through clinic
Project Details

The purpose of this project was to evaluate a single ’drive through’ respiratory clinic to inform the development of robust clinical protocols to optimise clinician and patient safety.
Patron ID: PAT020
Project Lead: A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
Overview:
Patient level data that has been recorded in a patient’s EMR by the ‘drive through’ clinic staff will be analysed to determine the number of patients assessed, the number of swabs taken and the proportion of swabs that return positive results for COVID-19.
Collected data will include patient age, gender, temperature, symptoms and information on whether a swab was taken or not. This patient data will be de-identified and extracted from the clinic electronic medical record where it will be stored in the secure Data for Decisions data repository.
Research Outcomes
- Report to Australian Government Department of Health, Evaluation of a general practice COVID-19 'Drive-through' clinic
Research Publications
- Health economics paper
- Abraham et al 2022. Costing of an Australian general practice COVID-19 drive through testing and respiratory clinic. BMC Primary Care.
Research Group
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Department / Centre
General Practice and Primary Care
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