Portfolio of Research

 Mission: To decrease errors, risks and/or hazards in health care and their harmful impact on patients.
The 6 key areas of research are:

1. Using data to monitor quality of care

Mission: to develop and maintain data and tools to measure health care quality and to facilitate data use and translation into useable information by external and internal stakeholders to inform decision making and quality improvement processes.
Projects:
Using data to monitor quality of care
Quality Indicators in Trauma
Legal and ethical implications of performance reporting
Register of registries
Quality indictators in the Private Health sector
VAED C Codes

2. Improving information transfer

Mission: To identify barriers to effective transfer of information between healthcare workers across care boundaries and to implement and evaluate strategies to promote effective handover and referral.
Projects:
Trauma Reception and Resuscitation Project
Communication and Barriers to Safety
Clinical Handover – Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Managing interruptions and distractions in anaesthesia practice
An exploration into information gaps in medical and nursing shift handovers in ICU
Team Coordination
The impact of communication processes and team climate on errors
Communication in the ICU

3. Patient Safety

Mission: to promote effective, evidenced based and patient-centred care through research, information, dissemination, tool development and promotion of decision support processes.
Projects:
Sentinel Events
Clinical Pathways
Warfarin complications in the community
Aged Care-Determining health risks in older persons from extreme hot weather
Management of venous ulcers
Improving management of patients suffering iscahaemic stroke
Investigating the social construction of quality indicators in the ED

4. Medication Safety

Mission: to improve health outcomes through the safe and effective use of pharmaceuticals. The most common intervention in health care is the administration of medication.
Projects:
Medication Error in the Recovery Room
Warfarin complications in the community