How to use community HealthPathways: Practical tips to support decision making in the consulting room.

IF 1.6 4区医学 Q2 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

Australian Journal of General Practice Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI:10.31128/AJGP-02-24-7134

Edwin Kruys, Jon Harper

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Abstract

Background: Community HealthPathways are clinical decision support tools, combining evidence-based guidelines with local service and referral information, collaboratively developed and collated by primary care and hospital clinicians. HealthPathways is being implemented throughout Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and often plays a role in supporting local service redesign and integrated care.

Objective: This article summarises the background and benefits of community HealthPathways and provides tips to support decision making in the consulting room. The article highlights the influence a community of clinicians can have on service redesign through developing and publishing HealthPathways.

Discussion: Clinical information-seeking is often done during consultations, and having access to evidence-based, decision support tools like HealthPathways can facilitate consistency of best practice clinical care across jurisdictions and streamline referrals to local health services. Through the process of collaboration, HealthPathways supports integration of health services. Knowledge about the structure of HealthPathways and how to find information is useful for busy clinicians to aid decision support at the point of care.

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如何使用社区健康之路：支持诊室决策的实用技巧。

背景：社区健康路径是一种临床决策支持工具，将循证指南与当地服务和转诊信息相结合，由初级保健和医院临床医生共同开发和整理。澳大利亚、新西兰和英国都在实施健康之路，并经常在支持当地服务重新设计和综合护理方面发挥作用：本文概述了社区健康之路的背景和优势，并提供了一些小贴士，以支持诊室中的决策制定。文章强调了临床医生社区通过开发和发布健康之路对服务重新设计的影响：临床信息检索通常是在会诊过程中进行的，而使用像健康之路这样的循证决策支持工具可以促进不同辖区内最佳临床护理实践的一致性，并简化转诊至当地医疗服务机构的流程。通过合作过程，HealthPathways 支持医疗服务的整合。对于繁忙的临床医生来说，了解 HealthPathways 的结构以及如何查找信息非常有用，有助于在护理点提供决策支持。

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Australian Journal of General Practice Medicine-Family Practice

CiteScore

2.80

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4.50%

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284

期刊介绍： The Australian Journal of General Practice (AJGP) aims to provide relevant, evidence-based, clearly articulated information to Australian general practitioners (GPs) to assist them in providing the highest quality patient care, applicable to the varied geographic and social contexts in which GPs work and to all GP roles as clinician, researcher, educator, practice team member and opinion leader. All articles are subject to peer review before they are accepted for publication.