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Open AccessEffectiveness of fall prevention interventions in residential aged care and community settings: an umbrella review
Preventing falls is a priority for aged care providers. Research to date has focused on fall prevention strategies in single settings (e.g., residential aged care (RAC) or community settings). However, some ag...
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Open AccessThe Impact of Food-Sha** Techniques on Nutrition, Mealtime Experiences, and Quality of Life for Older Adults in Aged Care Settings: A Systematic Review
Food-sha** methods, particularly for texture-modified foods, present numerous opportunities to improve the visual appeal of food and potentially the nutrition of older people with dysphagia (swallowing diffi...
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Open AccessProcess evaluation of a behaviour change approach to improving clinical practice for detecting hereditary cancer
This retrospective process evaluation reports on the application of a 1-year implementation program to increase identification and management of patients at high risk of a hereditary cancer syndrome. The proje...
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Open AccessUsing behaviour change and implementation science to address low referral rates in oncology
Patients undergoing surgery for bowel cancer now have a routine screening test to assess their genetic predisposition to this and other cancers (Lynch syndrome). A result indicating a high risk should trigger ...
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How Does an Accreditation Programme in Residential Aged Care Inform the Way Residents Manage Their Healthcare and Lifestyle?
Our study examined how accreditation informs the way Australian aged care facility residents manage their healthcare and lifestyle in residential aged care. Residents did not draw direct links between accredit...
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Open AccessApplying the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify barriers and targeted interventions to enhance nurses’ use of electronic medication management systems in two Australian hospitals
Medication errors harm hospitalised patients and increase health care costs. Electronic Medication Management Systems (EMMS) have been shown to reduce medication errors. However, nurses do not always use EMMS ...
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Open AccessAchieving behaviour change for detection of Lynch syndrome using the Theoretical Domains Framework Implementation (TDFI) approach: a study protocol
Lynch syndrome is an inherited disorder associated with a range of cancers, and found in 2–5 % of colorectal cancers. Lynch syndrome is diagnosed through a combination of significant family and clinical histor...
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Open AccessDevelopment and application of an indicator assessment tool for measuring health services accreditation programs
Hospital accreditation programs are internationally widespread and consume increasingly scarce health resources. However, we lack tools to consistently identify suitable indicators to assess and monitor accred...
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The Path from Policy to Practice: Resilience of Everyday Work in Acute Settings
Implementation of policy in terms of detailed rigid protocols and procedures is perennially at odds with how everyday work is enacted in healthcare. This is especially evident when the needs of patients cannot...
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Open AccessImplementing strategies in consumer and community engagement in health care: results of a large-scale, sco** meta-review
There is growing recognition of the importance of the active involvement of consumers and community members in health care. Despite the long history of consumer and community engagement (CCE) research and prac...
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Open AccessKey concepts in consumer and community engagement: a sco** meta-review
Although consumer and community engagement (CCE) in health care is receiving increasing attention, research and practice in this area are hampered by the variability of concepts and terminology commonly employ...
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Achieving and Resisting Change: Workarounds Straddling and Widening Gaps in Health Care
The international movement to reform health care and improve patient safety encompasses a range of strategies. These strategies include restructuring (Braithwaite et al 2005), policy reform measures (World Hea...
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Open AccessStrengthening organizational performance through accreditation research-a framework for twelve interrelated studies: the ACCREDIT project study protocol
Service accreditation is a structured process of recognising and promoting performance and adherence to standards. Typically, accreditation agencies either receive standards from an authorized body or develop ...
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Open AccessThe development, design, testing, refinement, simulation and application of an evaluation framework for communities of practice and social-professional networks
Communities of practice and social-professional networks are generally considered to enhance workplace experience and enable organizational success. However, despite the remarkable growth in interest in the ro...
