Completed Projects

Future Health Today: Pilot project at Altona North Medical Group and Shepparton Medical Centre

Future Health Today is a collaboration between University of Melbourne and Western Health. It is a proactive digital health intervention that uses data from health records to automate the detection of chronic disease to provide new opportunities for early intervention and improved health outcomes. PAT009

Guidance GP: An antimicrobial stewardship program for general practice

Guidance GP consists of audits of antimicrobial prescribing, feedback reports to general practices, education webinar, access to prescribing guidelines and in-practice support for quality improvement. It is hoped that this project will assist general practices to optimise antimicrobial prescribing, inform the ongoing development of Guidance GP to ensure it meets the needs of general practice and assist in the design of a trial to formally evaluate its effectiveness.

Shared decision support for patients. An antimicrobial stewardship strategy to promote appropriate antibiotics use in primary care

This project pilots a suite of shared decision support tools that provide information and support clinical discussion and decision making with patients with common infections in primary care: respiratory tract infections (RTIs), skin and soft and tissue infections (SSTIs) and urinary tract infections (UTIs). PAT014

Quality indicators for the detection and management of chronic kidney disease in primary care

This project explores and compares outcomes for the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and compare quality indicator data for the management of CKD in four large general practice datasets in Australia (Patron), Singapore (NUHS Data Mart), Canada (UTOPIAN) and Sweden. PAT015

General Practitioner, Practice Nurse and Practice Manager attitudes to sharing de-identified patient health information for research