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Develop and implement a clinical standard for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services to ensure standardized evidence-based content informs the delivery of Queensland Health CR programs. The standard...

Standardising exercise management following cardiac surgery

“Keep Your Move in the Tube” (KMIT®) is an evidence-based strategy, developed for patients following cardiac surgery via sternotomy. It imposes no load or time restrictions but instead prompts...

Spreading better cardiac care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

This Better Cardiac Care model will comprise a multidisciplinary team (Clinical Nurse Consultant, Indigenous Health Worker and Pharmacist) to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

Networked Cardiac Services Models of Care

Networked Cardiac Services will operate across regional hubs and spokes with regional healthcare teams to provide coordinated care to their own communities. The program is multifaceted and aims to...

Clinical Excellence Showcase 2022

Indigenous Cardiac Outreach Program (ICOP) is an intensive culturally sensitive initiative to bridge the gap with the capacity to address chronic diseases including diabetes. We report a snapshot...

Cardiac teleconsultations

COVID-19 has triggered a change in the delivery of cardiac outpatient services at Townsville University Hospital. It's resulted in the targeted offering of Teleconsultations to...

Emergency Department bed

In response to the October 2018 introduction of a new high-sensitivity cardiac Troponin assay (hsTnI) blood test to all Queensland Health Hospitals, the Accelerated Chest pain Risk Evaluation (...

Tele-cardiac stress text

The Tele-Cardiac Investigations (T-CI) program involved cardiology staff, from the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, conducting ‘live’ HM and EST at rural facilities, via telehealth, to support...

Cardiac Rehabilitation

A 3-year project, beginning in 2016/17, was designed to improve the referral, uptake and quality of cardiac rehabilitation. The improvement project began with the development of performance...

Statewide 24/7 ECG and Clinical Support Project

ECG Flash is a Queensland Cardiac Clinical Network initiative that provides rural and remote clinicians 24/7 access to urgent specialist cardiology advice.

When a patient presents at...

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Develop and implement a clinical standard for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services to ensure standardized evidence-based content informs the delivery of Queensland Health CR...

“Keep Your Move in the Tube” (KMIT®) is an evidence-based strategy, developed for patients following cardiac surgery via sternotomy. It imposes no load or time restrictions but...

The Precision Triage Project, a collaboration between Griffith University and Gold Coast University Hospital, uses the Tracking Cube, a digital system co-designed with a First...

Previous evaluations acknowledge that consumers are often not aware or are unable to advocate for telehealth as part of their healthcare journey. To address this, a multi-stage...

Prolonged waiting times are a common source of patient dissatisfaction and complaints. As most Emergency Department (ED) patients are discharged from ED, the time required for...