Projects
Using data to expand knowledge
Data for Decisions focuses on the use of de-identified data from general practice medical records to expand knowledge and ultimately promote service and population health improvements. Every research project that accesses the data stored in the Patron primary care data repository does so only after meeting rigorous data governance and ethics requirements. Each project using Patron data is described below, and each research group will provide a reader-friendly summary of their findings, and list of resulting publications, when available.
Projects Approved To Use Patron Data
- PAT001 - Defining the burden of antimicrobial prescribing in primary care attributable to sore throat
- PAT004 - Trialing the implementation of a quality assurance framework in the Patron program
- PAT005 - GP-NAPS: The feasibility of passive audit of antibiotic prescribing in general practice
- PAT009,010 - Future Health Today: Detecting people at risk of chronic kidney disease
- PAT011 - Understanding and exploring adolescent health presentations in the Victorian primary care setting
- PAT012 - Studying the Continuum of Cancer Care through Linking Primary Data
- PAT013 - A descriptive study of the primary care use of people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness: A focus on cardiovascular and cardiometabolic health and risk factor screening
- PAT014 - Shared decision support for patients: An antimicrobial stewardship strategy to promote appropriate antibiotics use in primary care, pilot phase
- PAT015 - Quality indicators for the detection and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care: An exploratory study using electronic medical record (EMR) data in Australia, Singapore, Canada and Sweden
- PAT016 - Markers in Neuropsychiatric Disorders – utility of neurofilament light chain as a screening test in general practice
- PAT017 - Spatial convergence of dementia and cardiovascular disease risk: evidence to inform policy and practice
- PAT019 - Access to Patron data to enable multiple research projects associated with the VCCC Data-Driven Research Program
- PAT020 - Evaluating a safety and efficacy protocol of a COVID-19 'Drive Through' clinic
- PAT024 - Examining changes in healthcare utilisation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (Centre for Digital Transformation of Health)
- PAT027 - Analysing disparities in survival outcomes and health care resource utilisation in colorectal cancer
- PAT028 - Evaluation of automated deidentification of general practice free text health records
- PAT028 brief information flyer (PDF)
- PAT028 information flyer and participant consent form (PDF)
- PAT028 information flyer and participant consent form (Word) - PAT029 - Chlamydia study in Victoria, Australia; comparing testing, diagnosis, treatment and re-testing rate in urban and regional area of general practice in Victoria
- PAT030 - Analysis of factors associated with outcomes and survivorship of cancer across the continuum of health care using linked primary care hospital, clinical registry and population registry data
- PAT031 - Delays in access to treatment and patterns in primary care presentations and hospital visits for patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas
- PAT032 - Evaluating a safety and efficacy protocol of a COVID-19 respiratory clinic
- PAT033 - ACRE student project: A quantitative exploration of medicinal cannabis (MC) prescribing using phenotyping techniques on general practice electronic medical records
- PAT037 - Future Health Today: A pragmatic 12-month cluster randomised controlled trial of quality improvement activities in general practice compared to active control
- PAT037 FHT invitation to participate flyer for practices (PDF) - PAT043 - Primary healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic: describing transition to telehealth and primary care response in eight countries (Note, data are not shared between countries. Researchers in each of 8 countries are analysing their own primary care dataset. Aggregated results will be brought together in the final paper)
- PAT044 - Management of Chlamydia Cases in Australia (MoCCA) - pilot
- PAT046 - Optimising Diagnosis and Management of Hearing Loss by General Practitioners – the HEarIng loss Data Infrastructure (HEIDI) Study
- PAT051 – Future Health Today
- PAT052 - Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems: The ACTMed stepped wedge randomised controlled trial
- PAT053 - GooD4Mum: Creating GRHANITE® linkage with the National Gestational Diabetes Register and identifying women with gestational diabetes in general practice
- PAT054 - A validation study of a diagnostic algorithm to identify patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) using primary care pathology data
- PAT058 - Evaluation of natural language processing of general practice free text health records
- PAT062 - Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on general practice consultations (approved, pending fee)
- PAT063 - Building and evaluating interpretable machine learning models to classify appropriateness of antimicrobial prescriptions in Australian general practice
- PAT064 - Exploring pathology investigations for suspected diabetes in children attending general practice
- PAT073 - Cancer Health Services Utilisation Across the Continuum of Care
- PAT077 - Syphilis testing by serology and TP PCR in Victorian general practice - Novel strategies for improving syphilis testing and control