Resources

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ABCD project publications

Describing and analysing primary health care system support for chronic illness care in Indigenous communities in Australia's Northern Territory – use of the Chronic Care Model, BMC Health Services.

Study protocol: Audit and Best Practice for Chronic Disease Extension (ABCDE) Project. BMC Health Services Research.

Delivery of preventive health services to Indigenous adults: response to a systems-oriented primary care quality improvement intervention. Medical Journal of Australia.

Assessing health centre systems for guiding improvement in diabetes care. BMC Health Services Research. 2005.

CQI in health care

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Australasian Association for Quality in Health Care

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

McColl Institute – Evaluations of quality improvement programs 

Systems Assessment

References about the Chronic Care Model

Bodenheimer, T., Wagner, E., & Grumbach, K. (2002). Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness. JAMA 288, 1775-1779.

Bonomi, A., Wagner, E., Glasgow, R., & VonKorff, M. (2002). Assessment of chronic illness care (ACIC): a practical tool to measure quality improvement. Health Serv Res, 37, 791-820.

Innovative care for chronic conditions: building blocks for action (2002). Geneva: World Health Organisation. 

CQI and Indigenous health

Bailie, R., Sibthorpe, B., Gardner, K., and Si, D. Quality improvement in Indigenous primary health care: History, current initiatives and future directors, Australian Journal of Primary Health 14(2) 53 – 57.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

For more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health generally:

• Australian Indigenous Health Infonet
• The Lowitja Institute  Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research
• National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), where you can also find links to State and Territory affiliates in your local area. (NACCHO), where you can also find links to State and Territory affiliates in your local area.
• Australian Government’s Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
• Closing the Gap clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Close the Gap campaign
• Council of Australian Governments National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes 
• The Social Determinants of Aboriginal health (book)