Preparing primary care for precision diabetes
MACH-Track PhD program
Research Area: Primary Care
-
-
Building research capacity in general practice: Identifying strategies to integrate research into routine practice
MacHSR Future Leaders Fellowship program
-
Co-design of a pathway to integrate primary and hospital care for chronic and complex disease patients
MacHSR Future Leaders Fellowship program
-
Social Isolation and Social Prescribing Community of Practice
A collaboration with the Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA), Bolton Clarke Research Institute, Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH), Melbourne School of Population & Global Health (MSPGH), Monash Partners, and the Western Alliance has developed an extensive network of stakeholders researching or developing programs of support for social isolation.
-
National review of Practice Based Research Networks (PBRN)
The University of Melbourne Department of General Practice undertook a national review of practice-based research networks (PBRN) to determine the research capacity of PBRNs which exist in Australia in the primary care setting.
-
Remote expert nurse consultation for pressure injury prevention and management in residential aged care
Pressure injuries (pressure ulcers) affect up to 28% of aged care residents and cost AU$983 million per annum. E-health interventions can stem the personal, system and economic burden of wounds and are necessary when isolation or distancing is required to protect residents and healthcare workers from harm such as COVID-19.
-
Clinical utility of plasma neurofilament light chain in the diagnostic screening of psychiatric and neurological disorders: An “ESR” for the brain?
Primary care physicians and specialists often have difficulty distinguishing between neurological and psychiatric disorders due to the overlap in symptoms. The availability of a simple blood test that gauges the degree of brain cell injury (high in neurological disorders, low in psychiatric disorders) would be invaluable for clinicians.
-
Clinical Decision Support Integrated with e-Screening for Postnatal Depression
One in seven women experience postnatal depression, yet only 10 percent receive adequate treatment. Postnatal depression screening is mainly conducted by time-poor Maternal & Child Health Nurses (MCHNs) who are not mental health specialists and receive limited clinical guidance for ongoing management and referrals. Current paper-and-pencil procedures are inconsistent and error-prone.
-
Reducing persisting symptoms following child concussion: a randomised controlled clinical trial
Despite being an increasing public health concern, and a 40 percent rate of debilitating, persisting post-concussive symptoms (PCS), current knowledge regarding child and adolescent concussion is inadequate to direct effective, timely, low cost treatment. To date, clinical management has failed to recognise the vastly different needs of the individual child.
-
Future Health Today Project: Co-design of Prototype
Nearly half of all Australians have at least one chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and chronic kidney disease, and most of these people will attend general practice. Early diagnosis and management is critical to ensure optimal health outcomes and technology has the capacity to facilitate this.