Integrated health research centres for Australia.

Achieving Integrated Care for Older People: Shuffling the Deckchairs or Making the System Watertight For the Future?

Integrated care has been recognised as a key initiative to resolve the issues surrounding care for older people living with multi-morbidity. Multiple strategies and policies have been implemented to increase coordination of care globally however, evidence of effectiveness remains mixed. The reasons for this are complex and multifactorial, yet many strategies deal with parts of the problem rathe...

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Chronic wound research: an integrated approach

Introduction A specialised clinic was set up in Fremantle Hospital in July 1988 1 with the aim of performing a thorough clinical and laboratory assessment to establish the cause of leg ulceration in every patient, and therefore treating patients according to the cause of ulceration. Fremantle Hospital is a 450-bed acute-care teaching hospital within the South Metropolitan Area Health Service of...

Knowledge translation in health care: a concept analysis

  Background :Although knowledge translation is one of the most widely used concepts in health and medical literature, there is a sense of ambiguity and confusion over its definition. The aim of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of KT. This will assist the theoretical development of it and shape its implementation into the health care system   Methods : Walker and Avant’s framework w...

Academic health science centres in Australia: let's get competitive.

he model of the academic health science centre (AHSC) arose decades ago in the United States,1 and is now internationally well established, with 17 centres in Canada, eight in Holland, five in the United Kingdom, two in Singapore, but none in Australia. An AHSC is where a leading university joins with a major tertiary health care provider in a tripartite mission of excellence in clinical servic...