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Using data to identify improvement areas for chronic pain care

The Statewide Chron­ic Pain Clin­i­cal Net­work lead, Anne Burke, pre­sent­ed on the use of data to iden­ti­fy areas of improve­ment for chron­ic pain at the 2023 Aus­tralian Pain Soci­ety 43rd Annu­al Sci­en­tif­ic Meeting.

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Improving informed consent for genetic testing through a digital approach

The Statewide Clin­i­cal Genomics Net­work has been paving the way for bet­ter informed con­sent for genet­ic test­ing by shar­ing inter­im learn­ings of our dig­i­tal con­sent pilot project with key stake­hold­ers of the genomics and broad­er health communities.

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Ground-breaking and life changing successes in Genomics

Through genet­ic test­ing, Prof Chris Bar­nett helped iden­ti­fy the cause of 2 rare genet­ic dis­eases that led to one fam­i­ly being suc­cess­ful in hav­ing chil­dren and anoth­er teenag­er being giv­en a chance at sight.

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PRMs Program announces partnership for rollout

A new part­ner­ship with The Clin­i­cian will give patients a greater say in their care, with the roll­out of South Australia’s state-wide Patient Report­ed Mea­sures (PRMs) Program.

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Second PRMs Research Collaborative Symposium

The Novem­ber 2022 PRMs Research Col­lab­o­ra­tive Sym­po­sium focused on how PRMs can improve health­care for CALD pop­u­la­tions, peo­ple liv­ing with dis­abil­i­ty and First Nations peoples.

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New Optimised Pre-Surgical Care Framework for SA

South Aus­trali­a’s first Opti­mised Pre-Sur­gi­cal Care Frame­work will make surgery safer, improve patients’ expe­ri­ence and out­comes, make surgery eas­i­er for the sur­geon and reduce the pres­sure on our health system.

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