Dear all,
14 posters and papers were accepted from ISPRN members at the Primary Health Care Conference (PHCRIS) which was held in Adelaide in July.
We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone on their success.
Presentations
Improving blood pressure control in primary care: feasibility and impact of the ImPress intervention Nicholas Zwar, Oshana Hermiz, Elizabeth Halcomb, Patricia Davidson
No nursing homes: general practitioner attitudes to residential aged care facility visiting Russell Pearson, Eniko Ujvary, Andrew Bonney, Judy Mullan, Bridget Dijkmans-Hadley
Patients experiences of a clinical pharmacist integrated into a general practice setting Margaret Jordan, Haley Frew, Adele Stewart, Judy Mullan
How acceptable is it for GPs to ask about drinking? What patients think- a mixed methods study Michael Tam, Louis Leong, Nicholas Zwar, Charlotte Hespe
The development of national practice standards for nurses in general practice Elizabeth Halcomb, Julianne Bryce, Elizabeth Foley, Christine Ashley
Posters
The A clinic- home alcohol detoxification for Aboriginal people in a primary care setting Rowena Ivers, Jonathan Brett, Leanne Lawrence, Kate Conigrave
A pharmacist integrated into a general practice setting- quality improvement outcomes in the management of anticoagulants Margaret Jordan, Haley Frew, Adele Stewart, Judy Mullan
Area level socioeconomic disadvantage and diabetes control in the SIMLR study cohort: implications for health service planning Andrew Bonney, Darren Mayne, Peter Caputi, Kath Weston
Opioids in chronic non cancer pain- what are the challenges for GP trainees? Lucy Carter, Bastian Seidel, Andrew Bonney
Informing quality improvement work in the primary care setting and implementation of a program to support quality improvement activities through local GP organisations Charlotte Hespe, Lucie Rychetnik, David Peiris, Mark Harris
An assessment of the appropriate use of medicines in older patients with impaired kidney function, in a general practice setting Margaret Jordan, Julie Blaze, Jeff Hall, Judy Mullan
Panning for gold: unearthing reliable variables for electronic medical data research Stephen Barnett, Adam Hodgkins, Abhijeet Ghosh, Joan Henderson, Christopher Harrison, Bridget Dijkmans-Hadley, Alyssa Munkman
The Australian Primary Care Nursing Workforce 2015 Elizabeth Halcomb
Collaboration in general practice: working together to deliver clinical care Susan McInnes, Elizabeth Halcomb, Andrew Bonney, Kath Peters,
Kind Regards,
Alyssa Horgan
ISPRN Co-ordinator