Benchmarking and Best Practice

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Reviewed April 2008

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Title:   Audit
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Clinical audit is a strategy to improve health care services. Clinical audit selects areas for improvement in services and involves the use of appropriate, valid methods to answer the questions.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Towards national benchmarks for Australian mental health services
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This report is the result of research undertaken in 1999 to assist with the identification of mental health data items and data sets to determine useful performance indicators and benchmarks for mental health services.
Date:   Jan 2003
Title:   First national report on health sector performance indicators - public hospitals - the state of play
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This extensive report outlines the development of performance indicators for the health sector in Australia, and brings together national data to report against these indicators.
Date:   May 2001
Title:   Medical workforce supply and demand in Australia - a discussion paper
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   A broad ranging discussion paper dealing with Australian health sector issues which impact on the medical workforce. This has been prepared to seek views on the appproaches to the estimation of future workforce needs and the issues which need to be considered in the update of the benchmarks.
Date:   Oct 2001
Title:   Hospital Casemix Protocol (HCP)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The HCP data collection contains de-identified demographic, clinical and financial (charge and benefit) data for privately insured hospital in-patient episodes.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders: Guidelines for best practice
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This brochure summarises research findings on early intervention for autism, outlines the kinds of programs available in Australia, provides guidelines for best practice in early intervention, and lists contacts for programs across Australia.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Review of current interventions and identification of best practice currently used by community based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health service providers in promoting and supporting breastfeeding and appropriate infant nutrition.
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services
Description:   Report on project commissioned as part of the national initiative 'Health throughout life: maternal health - increasing rates of breastfeeding in Australia'.
Date:   Nov 1997
Title:   Taking action locally: eight steps to putting cancer guidelines into practice
Publisher:   National Institute of Clinical Studies
Description:   A practical guide to implementing clinical practice guidelines in cancer.
Date:   Apr 2006
Title:   National Demonstration Hospitals Program: NDHP Phase 1 - Managing elective surgery
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The National Demonstration Hospitals Program, Phase 1, was designed to identify and overcome the underlying causes of clinically unacceptable waiting times for elective surgery and was an initiative of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   A review of the research to identify the most effective models of practice in early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This publication reviews research literature relating to the management and treatment of young children with autism to identify the most effective models of practice.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Evidence-practice gaps report Volume 1: A review of developments: 2004-2007
Publisher:   National Institute of Clinical Studies
Description:   The National Institute of Clinical Studies Evidence-Practice Gaps Report, Volume 1, highlights a range of areas where there are gaps between what we know, from the best available research, and what happens in day to day practice.
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Regulating for consumer protection in private health insurance - can industry self-regulation work?
Publisher:   Consumers' Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
Description:   The best form of regulation for consumer protection is whatever works. So, does this mean that industry self-regulation works in private health insurance?
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   A-Team Asthma Education Program
Publisher:   National Asthma Council Australia (NAC)
Description:   The National Asthma Council Australia's A-Team" - a group of trained asthma experts - regularly runs asthma education workshops across Australia for GPs, practice nurses, asthma educators and other health professionals.
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Reducing evidence-practice gaps
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Moving evidence into use and reducing evidence-practice gaps is a complex task that requires input from many different groups including researchers, clinicians, consumers and policy makers.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   National Demonstration Hospitals Program: NDHP Phase 2 - Integrated Bed Management
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   NDHP Phase 2 was developed in response to the findings of NDHP Phase 1 and was undertaken between July 1997 and June 1998. NDHP-2 was designed to identify and evaluate innovative service delivery approaches that would overcome barriers to efficient, high quality integrated management of all hospital admissions
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Healthy for life: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative: Site reports 2005
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This report is a synthesis of reports provided by Nganampa Health Council, Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Services and Durri Aboriginal Medical Service under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative. The report has been compiled by the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH), in consultation with each of the Exemplar Sites.
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   For health professionals: homepage
Publisher:   Black Dog Institute Australia
Description:   Homepage of the health professionals section of the Black Dog Institute.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   When does quality assurance in health care require independent ethical review
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Description:   This version of the document provides advice to institutions, Human Research Ethics Committees and health care professionals about how to identify when quality assurance proposals require ethical review.
Date:   Feb 2003
Title:   Better health care: studies in the successful delivery of primary health care services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   Better Health Care examines the concept of comprehensive primary health care, provides national and international evidence of the effectiveness of this approach in improving health outcomes of Indigenous people, and illustrates the success of this approach through a series of case studies on successful health service interventions.
Date:   Oct 2001
Title:   National Demonstration Hospitals Program: NDHP Phase 4 - Improved Hospital Based Options for Older Australians
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Phase 4 of the National Demonstration Hospitals Program (NDHP) began in June 2002 and was completed in August 2003. Phase 4 aimed to identify innovative options to improve hospital based care for older Australians. Through this process, hospitals were encouraged to improve patient outcomes and deliver greater cost efficiencies.
Date:   Feb 2008
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