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This stream of work reflects the continuing and increasing need to disseminate QUDI work to key stakeholders in the broader Australian health sector, and the need to optimize engagement of and take-up by members of the profession and industry of QUDI information and outputs. This stream of activity is an information exchange and collaboration strategy, and is a major focus for the program.
The first annual seminar for the QUDI program was held in Sydney on April 7, 2006. This seminar was designed to share information from the QUDI projects with all parts of the health system to inform health practice, research and administration.
The seminar was attended by 125 health professionals, administrators and health care consumers. The plenary keynote speech was given by Professor Bruce Barraclough OA, chair of the Australian Council for Safety & Quality in Health Care, and the Board of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission.
2006 report (PDF)
The second QUDI Research Seminar was held on May 4, 2007, and was attended by 87 people from a broad range of stakeholder groups. The theme for the seminar in 2007 was “QUDI- we are listening”. Each of the sessions during the day explored this theme through presentations of projects representing the five QUDI streams.
The key note speaker for the day was A/Prof Christine Kilpatrick, Chair, Victorian Quality Council. The topic of Professor Kilpatrick’s presentation was Quality in Health Practice in Australia – Current and Future Issues.
2007 report (PDF)
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Dr Catherine Mandel is the current National QUDI Liaison Radiologist. The purpose of this position includes:
- Establishing and maintaining a national outreach strategy to actively inform and engage members of the radiology profession in the activities and outputs of the program;
- Providing clinical and technical leadership advice to the QUDI Advisory Group and leading the QUDI Technical Reference Group in the design of new projects and the review and revision of project material.
Liaison Radiologists have so far been appointed in Queensland and Western Australia. Their role is to:
- Provide leadership at a local level for the promotion of QUDI’s work to the Fellowship and to trainees;
- To act as a conduit for feedback from the fellowship and the private and public sectors regarding upcoming projects, completed projects, and suggestions that they may have about quality issues of particular currency and relevance to practicing radiologists relating to quality.
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The evaluation project has been designed within the sub-program Economically Sustainable Services to be a project that is integral to the process and outputs of all projects in each sub-program in order to monitor, advise and report on all QUDI activities against the Program Framework Terms of Reference, goals, objectives and priorities. Both summative evaluation and impact evaluation methods are to be applied to assess the outcomes, efficiency and medium to long-term impact of the program.
The evaluation will continuously monitor, support and evaluate the QUDI Program, subprograms and projects to provide the RANZCR with ongoing advice on QUDI implementation, progress, outputs and outcomes and specifically to:
- develop recommendations for RANZCR regarding policy, industry, clinical and practice outcomes and implications during and at the conclusion of the QUDI program
- develop and implement core data standards and methodologies and evaluation tools and measurements for implementation through all QUDI sub-programs and projects
- identify emerging risks to QUDI outputs and outcomes and recommend remedial interventions as appropriate
- provide RANZCR with regular progress reports and contribute to RANZCR QUDI Program reports to the RMC and DHA in accordance with the QUDI Contract.
Projects will provide interval (progress) reports to the evaluators and members of the evaluation team will establish and maintain contact with all current QUDI projects, throughout the life of the program, to gather information on the research questions, research methods, project management experience, stakeholder and research and project team experiences. The information will contribute to the evaluation progress reports, will provide regular feedback to all projects on the experiences and lessons learnt in individual projects, and will inform the QUDI program management prior to the development of forward annual work plans of emerging research and implementation issues.
The evaluation will facilitate the take-up by RANZCR and provision to the profession, industry and government, the outcomes of QUDI processes, projects and outputs that address:
- continuous quality improvement of guidelines, standards and accreditation requirements in concert with contemporary evidence of best practice
- information storage, transfer and retrieval for safe and efficient decision making and reporting on diagnostic imaging services
- consistent standards, practices and processes for all diagnostic imaging services.
2004 - 05 report (PDF)
2005 - 06 report (PDF)
2006 - 07 report (PDF)
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