Standardising practices improves clinical diabetic foot management: the Queensland Diabetic Foot Innovation Project, 2006-09
| Autor: | Anthony W. Russell, Peter A Lazzarini, Patrick H Derhy, Maarten C Kamp, Sharon R. O'Rourke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
medicine.medical_specialty Medical Audit business.industry Health Policy Population Telehealth medicine.disease Diabetic foot Ambulatory Care Facilities Diabetic Foot Diabetic foot ulcer Clinical pathway Ambulatory care Diabetes mellitus Emergency medicine Ambulatory medicine Optometry Humans Queensland Practice Patterns Physicians' education business Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association. 36(1) |
| ISSN: | 0156-5788 |
| Popis: | Objective. The aim of this paper is to report the clinical practice changes resulting from strategies to standardise diabetic foot clinical management in three diverse ambulatory service sites in Queensland, Australia. Methods. Multifaceted strategies were implemented in 2008, including: multidisciplinary teams, clinical pathways, clinical training, clinical indicators, and telehealth support. Prior to the intervention, none of the aforementioned strategies were used, except one site had a basic multidisciplinary team. A retrospective audit of consecutive patient records from July 2006 to June 2007 determined baseline clinical activity (n = 101). A clinical pathway teleform was implemented as a clinical activity analyser in 2008 (n = 327) and followed up in 2009 (n = 406). Pre- and post-implementation data were analysed using Chi-square tests with a significance level set at P |
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