Delivery of preventive health services to Indigenous adults: Response to a systems-oriented primary care quality improvement intervention

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 453-457

  Si, Damin ^a   Bailie, Ross S ^a   Dowden, Michelle ^a   O'Donoghue, Lynette ^a   Connors, Christine ^b   Robinson, Gary W ^c   Cunningham, Joan ^a   Condon, John R ^a   Weeramanthri, Tarun S ^b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LABORATORY TEST; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WORKSHOP; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 38449118760     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01356.x     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. United States Preventive Services Task Force. Guide to clinical preventive services, 2005. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/pocketgd05 (accessed Sep 2007).
2. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. The Canadian guide to clinical preventive health care. Ottawa: Health Canada, 1994.
3. The National Preventive and Community Medicine Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice. Aust Fam Physician 2002; 31: S1-S61.
4. National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. National guide to a preventive health assessment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Melbourne: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, 2005. http://www.racgp.org.au/guidelines/nationalguide (accessed Sep 2007).
5. McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. N Engl J Med 2003; 348: 2635-2645.
6. Bailie RS, Togni SJ, Si D, et al. Preventive medical care in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: a follow-up study of the impact of clinical guidelines, computerised recall and reminder systems, and audit and feedback. BMC Health Serv Res 2003; 3: 15.
7. Feder G, Eccles M, Grol R, et al. Clinical guidelines: using clinical guidelines. BMJ 1999; 318: 728-730.
8. Solberg LI, Brekke ML, Kottke TE. How important are clinician and nurse attitudes to the delivery of clinical preventive services? J Fam Pract 1997; 44: 451-461.
9. Bodenheimer T, Wagner EH, Grumbach K. Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness. JAMA 2002; 288: 1775-1779.
10. Piatt GA, Orchard TJ, Emerson S, et al. Translating the chronic care model into the community: results from a randomized controlled trial of a multifaceted diabetes care intervention. Diabetes Care 2006; 29: 811-817.
11. Glasgow RE, Orleans CT, Wagner EH. Does the chronic care model serve also as a template for improving prevention? Milbank Q 2001; 79: 579-612.
12. Bailie R, Si D, Dowden M, et al. Improving organisational systems for diabetes care in Australian Indigenous communities. BMC Health Serv Res 2007; 7: 67.
13. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Regional statistics, Northern Territory, 2004. Canberra: ABS, 2004. (ABS Cat. No. 1362.7.)
14. Condon J, Warman G, Arnold L, editors. The health and welfare of Territorians. Darwin: Epidemiology Branch, Territory Health Services, 2001.
15. Bailie R, Si D, Dowden M, O'Donoghue L. Indigenous health: effective and sustainable health services through continuous quality improvement. Med J Aust 2007; 186: 525-527.
16. Si D, Bailie R, Connors C, et al. Assessing health centre systems for guiding improvement in diabetes care. BMC Health Serv Res 2005; 5: 56.
17. Improving Chronic Illness Care. Assessment of chronic illness care, version 3.5. http://www.improvingchroniccare.org/downloads/ acic_v3.5a.pdf (accessed: Sep 2007).
18. Bonomi AE, Wagner EH, Glasgow RE, VonKorff M. Assessment of chronic illness care (ACIC): a practical tool to measure quality improvement. Health Serv Res 2002; 37: 791-820.
19. Central Australian Rural Practitioner Association. CARPA standard treatment manual: a clinic manual for primary health care practitioners in remote and rural communities in Central and Northern Australia. 4th ed. Alice Springs: CARPA, 2003.
20. Altman DG. Practical statistics for medical research. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991.
21. Dubey V, Mathew R, Iglar K, et al. Improving preventive service delivery at adult complete health check-ups: the Preventive health Evidence-based Recommendation Form (PERFORM) cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Fam Pract 2006; 7: 44.
22. Solberg LI, Kottke TE, Brekke ML, et al. Failure of a continuous quality improvement intervention to increase the delivery of preventive services. A randomized trial. Eff Clin Pract 2000; 3: 105-115.
23. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Enhanced Primary Care Program (EPC). http://www.health.gov.au/epc (accessed Jul 2007).
24. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Enhanced Primary Care Program (EPC). Medicare health checks for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians - fact sheet. http://www.health.gov.au/ internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/ pacd-medicarehealthchecks-factsheet.htm (accessed Sep 2007).
25. Kelaher M, Dunt D, Thomas D, Anderson I. Comparison of the uptake of health assessment items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians: implications for policy. Aust New Zealand Health Policy 2005; 2: 21.