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Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that contributes considerably to the burden of disease in the population. However, poor patient outcomes related to sepsis can be significantly ameliorated by early identification of at-risk patients. The aims of this project were 1) to evaluate the performance of three risk identification tools for early detection of sepsis cases in adult inpatients during hospital admissions and 2) to develop two sets of optimised tools applicable at the bedside and for an electronic system.
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In 2004, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (“the Commission”) introduced a National Inpatient Medication Chart (NIMC) to optimise safe prescribing and administration of medicines in hospitals. In 2009, the Commission approved use of a NIMC General Practitioner (GP) e-...
Status: Current 
Each year, approximately 15,000 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer, leading to 4,000-5,000 deaths. Although different things can contribute to bowel cancer development, one known cause is Lynch syndrome. Lynch syndrome is inherited through families and can cause various cancers, often at a...
Status: Current 
There is now little doubt that the inappropriate use of antibiotics (abx) contributes to the emergence of resistance and that improving abx use is necessary for the containment of resistance. Many interventions have been trialled in an attempt to improve abx use (e.g. education, audit and feedback...
Status: Current 
How do we know if clinical practice delivered really complies with evidence of best practice? Clinical quality indicators (CQI) are measures designed to answer that question, but CQI themselves are not always developed through a rigorous and evidence-based process.
This project aims to understand...
Status: Current 
Ten percent of admissions to Australian acute-care hospitals are associated with harm to patients or adverse events. The reporting of critical incidents by health professionals is now well established and the rate of reporting continues to increase worldwide. Current methods, which rely on...
Status: Current 
Currently, most safety problems are detected when health professionals report incidents. Since they are not expert in technology, many software problems either go undetected, or are detected only after an adverse event. Moreover, IT systems are made up of multiple disparate components which...
Status: Current 
Antibiotic resistance is caused by specific genes carried and shared by bacteria. The cellular and molecular mechanisms behind this are complex but real – without them the 12 antibiotic families we have today would have sufficed. Effective antibiotic stewardship and management needs to understand...
Status: Completed 
This newly funded study examines the unmet needs of adults with severe to profound hearing loss. The work combines the extensive expertise of qualitative and quantitative researchers, hearing health experts and audiologists, working collaboratively across the Australian Institute of Health...
Status: Current