What would it take to improve the uptake and utilisation of mHealth applications among older Australians? A qualitative study
Conclusion Our analyses provide additional insights complementing existing technology adoption research. Their successful adoption and utilisation require further empirical evidence on its effectiveness along with attention to the voices of those who are meant to use them. To address potential barriers, improve the quality and security of mHealth apps, and thus achieve greater patient safety, the involvement of consumers, regulators and health professionals is necessary.PMID:38266308 | DOI:10.1071/AH23119 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - January 24, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Tanja Schroeder Karla Seaman Amy Nguyen Joyce Siette Heiko Gewald Andrew Georgiou Source Type: research
An economic evaluation of point-of-care ultrasound for children presenting to the emergency department with suspected septic arthritis of the hip
Conclusion There was significant cost saving potential for hospitals by switching to POCUS for suspected septic arthritis of the hip.PMID:38266497 | DOI:10.1071/AH23214 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - January 24, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Cate Bailey Heather Deane Adam O'Brien Kim Dalziel Source Type: research
Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study
Conclusion My Therapy has the potential to improve the rehabilitation reach of allied health services in residential aged care. While introducing this low-cost intervention is feasible, adaptations were required for successful implementation.PMID:38245911 | DOI:10.1071/AH23206 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - January 21, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Natasha Brusco Christina Ekegren Helen Rawson Nicholas F Taylor Julia Morphet Keith Hill Jennifer Anderson Kelly Stephen Amelia Crabtree Pazit Levinger Sara L Whittaker Sze-Ee Soh Fiona Dulfer Katherine Lawler Source Type: research
Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee post-implementation review of MBS telehealth items: abolition of initial telehealth consultations for non-general practitioner specialists
Aust Health Rev. 2024 Feb;48(1):34-36. doi: 10.1071/AH23237.ABSTRACTIn 2022, the Australian Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care commissioned the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee (MRAC) to conduct a post-implementation review of MBS telehealth services, including settings of video and telephone consultations. The MRAC has made a series of administrative recommendations for telehealth practice that appear at cross-purposes to the evidence-base on medical consultations and that would limit patient access to medical specialist assessment in Australia. These recommendations particularly underesti...
Source: Australian Health Review - January 21, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Jeffrey C L Looi Stephen Allison Tarun Bastiampillai Steve Kisely William Pring Source Type: research
National Disability Insurance Scheme timeframes and functional outcomes for inpatient rehabilitation patients: a 5-year retrospective audit
Conclusions NDIS timeframes for rehabilitation inpatients incur a significant opportunity cost for the provision of efficient inpatient rehabilitation services that are unaccounted for in current benchmarking performance standards.PMID:38232375 | DOI:10.1071/AH23216 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - January 17, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: David Kellett Alexandra G Adams Michael Pollack Source Type: research
Exploring strengths and weaknesses in health services research culture and capacity
Conclusions Team-level scores were substantially lower when compared to individual and organisational levels. The item 'team leaders that support research' was positively correlated with various organisation-level items, indicating that if the respondent perceived the team leader as a low supporter of research the respondent perceived several organisation items also poorly. As an important stakeholder in enabling research in a health service, organisations should investigate the challenges experienced by team leaders in facilitating research and the support or training they may need.PMID:38219279 | DOI:10.1071/AH23241 (Sou...
Source: Australian Health Review - January 14, 2024 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Nicole Stormon Peter Lawrenson Ann Rahmann Sally Eames Nicole Gavin Source Type: research
Healthcare costs attributable to e-cigarette use and subsequent uptake of cigarette smoking by Australians who have never smoked
Conclusion High avoidable health system costs are predicted for the treatment of chronic conditions created by e-cigarette-initiated smoking. These costs exclude the immediate and direct healthcare harms of e-cigarette-related poisoning, lung injury, and respiratory problems, and costs associated with the unknown health harms of e-cigarette use alone. The proposed regulations to curb recreational e-cigarette use in Australia are set to prevent expensive health care arising sometime in the future from new cigarette smokers.PMID:38127822 | DOI:10.1071/AH23178 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Louisa G Gordon Paige Preston Source Type: research
Clinical innovation and scope of practice regulation: a case study of the Charlie Teo decision
Aust Health Rev. 2024 Feb;48(1):91-94. doi: 10.1071/AH23157.ABSTRACTThe issue of regulation of scope of practice (SOP) has recently been highlighted through the high-profile case of New South Wales-based neurosurgeon, Mr Charles Teo and specifically the finding of 'unsatisfactory professional conduct' by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) in Teo, Charles (2023) NSWMPSC 2 (12 July 2023). The HCCC decision went to two issues in Teo's practice: (1) his decision to perform a surgery not within the SOP of his profession [at 238]; and (2) his failure to gain patient informed consent for that surgery [at 245]. This ...
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Jill Walsh Sharon Downie Eric Windholz Andrea Kirk-Brown Terry P Haines Source Type: research
Healthcare costs attributable to e-cigarette use and subsequent uptake of cigarette smoking by Australians who have never smoked
ConclusionHigh avoidable health system costs are predicted for the treatment of chronic conditions created by e-cigarette-initiated smoking. These costs exclude the immediate and direct healthcare harms of e-cigarette-related poisoning, lung injury, and respiratory problems, and costs associated with the unknown health harms of e-cigarette use alone. The proposed regulations to curb recreational e-cigarette use in Australia are set to prevent expensive health care arising sometime in the future from new cigarette smokers.PMID:38127822 | DOI:10.1071/AH23178 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Louisa G Gordon Paige Preston Source Type: research
Clinical innovation and scope of practice regulation: a case study of the Charlie Teo decision
Aust Health Rev. 2023 Dec 22. doi: 10.1071/AH23157. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe issue of regulation of scope of practice (SOP) has recently been highlighted through the high-profile case of New South Wales-based neurosurgeon, Mr Charles Teo and specifically the finding of 'unsatisfactory professional conduct' by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) in Teo, Charles (2023) NSWMPSC 2 (12 July 2023). The HCCC decision went to two issues in Teo's practice: (1) his decision to perform a surgery not within the SOP of his profession [at 238]; and (2) his failure to gain patient informed consent for that surgery [...
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Jill Walsh Sharon Downie Eric Windholz Andrea Kirk-Brown Terry P Haines Source Type: research
Healthcare costs attributable to e-cigarette use and subsequent uptake of cigarette smoking by Australians who have never smoked
ConclusionHigh avoidable health system costs are predicted for the treatment of chronic conditions created by e-cigarette-initiated smoking. These costs exclude the immediate and direct healthcare harms of e-cigarette-related poisoning, lung injury, and respiratory problems, and costs associated with the unknown health harms of e-cigarette use alone. The proposed regulations to curb recreational e-cigarette use in Australia are set to prevent expensive health care arising sometime in the future from new cigarette smokers.PMID:38127822 | DOI:10.1071/AH23178 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Louisa G Gordon Paige Preston Source Type: research
Clinical innovation and scope of practice regulation: a case study of the Charlie Teo decision
Aust Health Rev. 2023 Dec 22. doi: 10.1071/AH23157. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe issue of regulation of scope of practice (SOP) has recently been highlighted through the high-profile case of New South Wales-based neurosurgeon, Mr Charles Teo and specifically the finding of 'unsatisfactory professional conduct' by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) in Teo, Charles (2023) NSWMPSC 2 (12 July 2023). The HCCC decision went to two issues in Teo's practice: (1) his decision to perform a surgery not within the SOP of his profession [at 238]; and (2) his failure to gain patient informed consent for that surgery [...
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Jill Walsh Sharon Downie Eric Windholz Andrea Kirk-Brown Terry P Haines Source Type: research
Healthcare costs attributable to e-cigarette use and subsequent uptake of cigarette smoking by Australians who have never smoked
ConclusionHigh avoidable health system costs are predicted for the treatment of chronic conditions created by e-cigarette-initiated smoking. These costs exclude the immediate and direct healthcare harms of e-cigarette-related poisoning, lung injury, and respiratory problems, and costs associated with the unknown health harms of e-cigarette use alone. The proposed regulations to curb recreational e-cigarette use in Australia are set to prevent expensive health care arising sometime in the future from new cigarette smokers.PMID:38127822 | DOI:10.1071/AH23178 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Louisa G Gordon Paige Preston Source Type: research
Clinical innovation and scope of practice regulation: a case study of the Charlie Teo decision
Aust Health Rev. 2023 Dec 22. doi: 10.1071/AH23157. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe issue of regulation of scope of practice (SOP) has recently been highlighted through the high-profile case of New South Wales-based neurosurgeon, Mr Charles Teo and specifically the finding of 'unsatisfactory professional conduct' by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) in Teo, Charles (2023) NSWMPSC 2 (12 July 2023). The HCCC decision went to two issues in Teo's practice: (1) his decision to perform a surgery not within the SOP of his profession [at 238]; and (2) his failure to gain patient informed consent for that surgery [...
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Jill Walsh Sharon Downie Eric Windholz Andrea Kirk-Brown Terry P Haines Source Type: research
Healthcare costs attributable to e-cigarette use and subsequent uptake of cigarette smoking by Australians who have never smoked
ConclusionHigh avoidable health system costs are predicted for the treatment of chronic conditions created by e-cigarette-initiated smoking. These costs exclude the immediate and direct healthcare harms of e-cigarette-related poisoning, lung injury, and respiratory problems, and costs associated with the unknown health harms of e-cigarette use alone. The proposed regulations to curb recreational e-cigarette use in Australia are set to prevent expensive health care arising sometime in the future from new cigarette smokers.PMID:38127822 | DOI:10.1071/AH23178 (Source: Australian Health Review)
Source: Australian Health Review - December 21, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Louisa G Gordon Paige Preston Source Type: research
