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
- Defining the burden of antimicrobial prescribing in primary care attributable to sore throat - PAT001
- Meeting national targets and indicators to reduce mortality from chronic illness through general practice - PAT002
- Trialing the implementation of a quality assurance framework in the Patron program - PAT004
- GP-NAPS: The feasibility of passive audit of antibiotic prescribing in general practice - PAT005
- Future Health Today: Detecting people at risk of chronic kidney disease - PAT007,009,010
- Understanding and exploring adolescent health presentations in the Victorian primary care setting - PAT011
- Studying the Continuum of Cancer Care through Linking Primary Data - PAT012
- 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 - PAT013
- Shared decision support for patients: An antimicrobial stewardship strategy to promote appropriate antibiotics use in primary care, pilot phase - PAT014
- 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 - PAT015