This pilot is testing the acceptability and feasibility of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM®) in Victoria.
PAM® is a validated patient reported outcome measure that health services and clinicians can use:
This initiative aims to:
These reductions can result in:
There are many ways for clinicians, consumers, and health service staff to get involved in our improvement projects.
We partner with consumers, clinicians, researchers and health system leaders to:
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Define a specific problem or opportunity.
In-depth case review tool
The in-depth case review (IDCR) tool assists health services to use a structured, systems-based approach to reviewing adverse patient safety events (APSE).
Healthcare patients and their families/carers who have been impacted by serious adverse patient safety events are entitled to play a role in internal review processes that seek to understand how their harm occurred.
By involving impacted consumers in adverse event reviews, a fuller understanding of contributing factors can be gained, which leads to more accurate and robust findings, and better system improvements.