Talk Stroke: Developing Australia's First National Tele Stroke Framework And Communications Platform
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,164,847.00
Summary
Patients with a stroke in the regional areas are twice as likely to suffer significant disability compared to patients living in inner city regions. We propose to develop technology to close this gap, and guide its implementation with a national tele stroke policy framework. The technology we develop with our partner organisations will facilitate tele medicine to close the gaps in critical patient care.
Australasian Partnership For Improving Outcomes In Severe Depression
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$909,752.00
Summary
This 5-year project examines how proven treatments are used in real-world clinical practice, and how this can be improved. The project focuses on important physical interventions for depression: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), Ketamine, repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). The use of ECT to treat schizophrenia will also be examined. The research team will partner with clinical service providers and a government health department.
Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes Through Self-Management: My Therapy
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$743,438.00
Summary
We must ensure patients have enough therapy practice for the best inpatient rehabilitation outcomes. During rehabilitation, we know patients don't often receive enough therapy and actually spend most of the day sitting and lying down. My Therapy was designed to increase independent practice of therapy exercises during rehabilitation, in addition to usual care, without additional staff. Through My Therapy, patients achieved 100 extra minutes of weekly therapy participation and better function.
Buruli ulcer (BU) is a destructive skin and soft tissue infection that can cause permanent deformity. Australian native possums carry in their guts the bacteria that causes BU and mosquitoes spread BU to people from areas contaminated by possum faeces. A targeted intervention based on screening possum faeces followed by control of mosquitoes in areas where possums and mosquitoes are shown to carry the bacteria will be trialed here, giving public health officials a means to stop this disease.
Exposure To Trihalomethanes In Pregnancy And Birth Outcomes In Queensland: Integrated Data Analysis And Case Studies For Better Policy And Health Outcomes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$522,284.00
Summary
We will assist the project partners in implementing evidence-based changes for disinfection by-products called Trihalomethanes (THMs) risk management, incident resolution, and exposure minimisation in pregnant women in Queensland, particularly those residing in high-risk areas. We anticipate that our findings will be a major contributor to the advocacy for revising the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines for THMs.
Establishing A Digital Health Foundation For Outcomes-based Diagnostic Excellence, Safety And Value
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,027,501.00
Summary
Our partnership proposal will lead to the development of a digital infrastructure (involving big data resources and sophisticated decision support systems) as a foundation for outcomes-based research, optimised clinical care processes and translation into policy and practice. The partnership will encompass key research areas involving the quality, safety and value of care in musculoskeletal care, infectious diseases, diabetes care and emergency/intensive care.
Implementation Research To Guide The Elimination Of HIV Transmission In NSW
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,499,409.00
Summary
The implementation of new biomedical forms of HIV prevention since 2015 has been accompanied by a 40% reduction in HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men in New South Wales (NSW). Reductions in HIV have been much smaller in the overseas-born, the young, and in those living outside of inner Sydney. We propose a 5-year program of implementation research, integrated with the NSW HIV Strategy 2021-25, which will see NSW become the first jurisdiction globally to virtually eliminate HIV.
The Who, Why, What, Where And When Of Primary Youth Mental Health Care: The 5W Research Program
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$857,288.00
Summary
headspace has been an international pioneer for primary mental health care for young people. However, we need to better understand how to match the range of services headspace provides to the diverse needs of its clients. In the 5W research program, we will use a range of big data techniques, machine learning, data linkage, discrete choice experiments and economic modelling to develop an acceptable, equitable and efficient stepped care model for headspace.
Improving The Safety And Quality Of Emergency Nursing Care
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,498,877.00
Summary
Failure to assess, treat comprehensively and escalate emergency patient care can be catastrophic. However, there is no emergency nursing framework in use for the 29,000+ emergency nurses working in Australia. We aim to improve access, consistency, safety and quality of emergency care for the best possible patient outcomes through system wide implementation of HIRAID - the only validated framework designed to teach emergency nurses how to systematically assess and manage emergency patients.
The Personalising Acute Myocardial Infarction Care To Improve Outcomes (PAMICO Project)
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,499,234.00
Summary
The modern management of heart attacks has improved survival dramatically, however, not all patients receive the best care available, leading to variation in quality and health outcomes. The PAMICO Project (Personalising Acute Myocardial Infarction Care to improve Outcomes) aims to bridge this gap using sophisticated electronic data systems and integrated care teams to produce personalised clinical management pathways so that care is patient-centered and aligned with best practice.