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Resources/activities |
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| Coordinated Care Trials |
Care 21 - now renamed as Northern Venture
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Northern Division of General Practice |
| State Based Organisation |
Activities/Resources |
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| South Australian Divisions of General
Practice |
Working with the Palliative Care Council
of South Australia on how EPC can be incorporated into a GP
practice so that it is financially viable. |
Palliative Care
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Department of Human Services Health
Outcomes Unit - Cardiac Depression Project |
Mental health
Randomised controlled trial
Cardiovascular
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A project has commenced that involves
GPs as participants in case conferences with hospital psychiatric
liaison staff, the cardiac rehabilitation nurse and the GP.
The case conference will take place around discharge of a patient
with a chronic cardiac condition who has been newly diagnosed
with co-morbid depression. The GP is invited to participate
in the case conference, so it is a nice safe introduction to
the new EPC MBS items numbers. GPs arrange a follow up case
conference at 3 months post discharge if required. This project
is a randomised controlled trial so it is only GPs in the intervention
arm of the project who will be involved in the case conferencing,
but this will include approximately 500 GPs from across the
state. Any patients with a chronic cardiac condition who are
admitted to Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital or Lyell McEwin Hospital may be recruited
to the project, so patients from anywhere in the state may be
recruited. They will be screened for depression, and then the
depressed patients will be randomised to the control group for
usual management of the cardiac condition, and the intervention
group will have the 'enhanced' treatment where the GP, psychiatric
liaison team and cardiac rehabilitation nurse case conference
and monitor the patient's progress (for both cardiac and depression
outcomes). |
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Working with Department of Education,
Training and Employment and Divisions in developing care plans
for children in schools. Discussing the potential to link EPC
with new policy implementation work in health support planning
being undertaken during 2001 in South Australian schools, preschools
and childcare services. |
Child health |
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Contact: mansert@health.on.net
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keywords: Northern Division of General Practice,
Palliative Care, Mental health, Randomised controlled trial,
Cardiovascular, Child health
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