General Practice

Understanding and exploring adolescent health presentations in the Victorian primary care setting

This project uses Patron data to describe adolescent and young people's 2019 presentations to general practice in Victoria Australia. PAT011

Optimising Diagnosis and Management of Hearing Loss by General Practitioners – the HEarIng loss Data Infrastructure (HEIDI) Study

Advancing the knowledge base on the management of hearing loss in the GP setting. This project contributes towards shaping evidence-based clinical guidelines for best practice management of adults with hearing loss, a data-driven approach through the integration of multiple-sources of data and big-data oriented visual and predictive analytics. PAT046

Global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care: An international comparative study by the INTRePID consortium

This research will use general practice EMR data stored in repositories based in nine countries to describe general practice consultation types prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in 12 primary care systems. PAT043

Evaluation of natural language processing of general practice free text health records

This project aims to examine EMR data including progress notes to investigate the types of clinical data that are collected to help guide clinical coding requirements for automating outcome measurement and ascertainment in future general practice-based research studies. PAT058/1029

‘RAd Trial: Investigating NLP mechanisms to identify risk behaviours and health conditions present in GP notes for the purposes of undertaking the RAd RCT

The aim of this project is to undertake an analysis of free text GP notes to establish how we can identify risk taking behaviour and other related health conditions and information to support the RAd RCT trial. PAT1029_0

The Simply B Trial

This pilot study determines the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of Simply B, a novel GP hepatitis B e-support package designed to increase hepatitis B management by GPs in primary care clinics. PAT086

Exploring Telehealth as a Tool to Reduce Burden on Rural and Regional Victorian GPs

This research project aims to assess the use of telehealth by general practitioners and understand the complexity of patients they treat. Epidemiology and data linkage methodologies will be employed utilising data from PATRON. PAT1043

Blood pressure changes over 3 years in a resistant severe hypertensive crisis population

This project aims to identify patients who have severe resistant hypertension and look at their natural progression over a historical three year time period in order to compare them to similar patients who have severe resistant hypertension who were treated with renal denervation. PAT1058

Blood pressure changes over 3 years in a resistant severe hypertensive crisis population - sub project

The aim of this subproject is to detail the prevalence and determinants of MAFLD and CLD risk factors and liver fibrosis in a primary care population. To determine the accuracy of FIB-4 performed in primary care in the prediction of liver-related events (decompensation and HCC). And to identify at-risk populations in primary care in whom a FIB-4 based screening approach should be used to predict risk of future liver-related events. PAT1067