Ask, Triage, Manage IT Solutions for General Practice Ask, Triage, Manage Prepared for: Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New Zealand March 2010 Prepared by: Lis.
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Ask, Triage, Manage
IT Solutions for General Practice
Ask, Triage, Manage
Prepared for: Smokefree Nurses Aotearoa/New
ZealandMarch 2010
Prepared by: Lis Cowling – Harbour HealthKindly presented by: Lynn Stevenson
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Tobacco Control:Brief Advice and Interventions in Primary
Care
• More Quit Attempts, More Often
• “ABC” approach for health care workers
• Primary care targeted to implement “ABC”
• Development of ABC E-learning tool for primary care
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To address
• Knowledge• Skill• Priority• Recording• Guidelines and Evidence• Time and funding Resource
ABC e-learning tool and training will begin to assist with the barrier of knowledge – ATM Tool will do the rest!
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Background
• Professor Paul McDonald, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Paper based questionnaire to indicate readiness and level of support required to quit smoking
• Triage into appropriate smoking cessation service to suit individual
• Permission given to Harbour Health to create electronic, NZ version of tool
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Development
• Steering Group formed• Adapted to NZ environment• Web Based, linked into PMS Systems• Brief Intervention statement prompts• Decision support • NZ National Guidelines• Patients triaged to best personal cessation
option
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Linking with PMS
ATM - Linking with MedTech 32
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Brief Advice
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Intervention - Referral
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Intervention - Prescribing
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Intervention - Prescribing Info and
Contraindications
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Intervention - Patient Advice
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ATM Pilot
Piloted in 12 Harbour Health Practices Sept 09 to Dec 09 – 28 GPs and 7 PNs
• Participants found the ATM to be user-friendly (72%) and to be ‘helpful’ or ‘very helpful’ in raising the issue of smoking with their patients (74%), exploring smoking cessation options with their patients (83%), and in knowing the best service to refer their patient to (71%).
(Full evaluation available: www.harbourhealth.org.nz )
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Future
Watch this space!Working with MoH to look at
feasibility of a national roll out …..
Acknowledgements:• Professor Paul McDonald, Waterloo University,
Canada• ATM Steering Group• MoH for funding this project
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Contact Details
Lis CowlingEmail: lcowling@harbourhealth.org.nz
DDI: 09 448 0462Mobile: 0275 502 400
Harbour Health42B Tawa Drive, Albany, AKwww.harbourhealth.org.nz
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