Improving Childhood Asthma Management
About the project
This project aims to improve childhood asthma management in Melbourne’s north and west. We’re partnering with consumers and healthcare providers to:
Patient Activation Measure
About the project
This pilot is testing the acceptability and feasibility of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM®) in Victoria.
PAM® is a validated patient reported outcome measure that health services and clinicians can use:
Assisted Self-Management
About the project
The Assisted Self-Management pilot is a system-wide improvement initiative designed to support people with chronic conditions to stay well at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
This pilot will test a digitally enabled, patient-centred care model that combines clinician oversight and support with evidence-based self-management strategies.
The initiative aims to:
Get involved in an improvement project
Ways to participate
There are many ways for clinicians, consumers, and health service staff to get involved in our improvement projects.
How our improvement projects work
We run and support the delivery of many improvement projects in partnership with Victorian health services. These include:
- Large-scale collaboratives and smaller-scale pilots
- Projects targeting common problems and opportunities across Victorian health services.
How they work
We partner with consumers, clinicians, researchers and health system leaders to:
Explore the idea
Define a specific problem or opportunity.
Tools and resources for managing adverse events
Tools
In-depth case review tool
The in-depth case review (IDCR) tool assists health services to use a structured, systems-based approach to reviewing adverse patient safety events (APSE).
Involving impacted consumers – Adverse events
Healthcare patients and their families/carers who have been impacted by serious adverse patient safety events are entitled to play a role in internal review processes that seek to understand how their harm occurred.
By involving impacted consumers in adverse event reviews, a fuller understanding of contributing factors can be gained, which leads to more accurate and robust findings, and better system improvements.