Meeting date: 19 August 2021
As a healthcare system, we collect a lot of data. But do we use the data to its full advantage?
This is one of the questions the Queensland Clinical Senate put to its members and guests at its online meeting, ‘Connecting data: not just collecting’ Thursday 19 August 2021.
Using the examples of ‘Getting it Right First Time’ (GIRFT) initiative and the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), the Senate considered:
- how data can be used to better inform individual clinician practice
- what (if any) additional data would be useful
- whether it would be beneficial to present existing data differently.
In the second half of the meeting, the Senate looked at areas where we know we have challenges in collecting the right data, for example the way sex and gender are recorded in our systems. Without the ability to collect relevant data, we are unable to consider health outcomes for our diverse patient populations. This underpins Intersectional equity which we will also consider.
Speakers included:
- Dr Catherine McDougall, Senior Medical Officer, Orthopaedics, Metro North Hospital and Health Service and GIRFT
- Ms Shelley Haydon, Surgical Clinical Reviewer - NSQIP, Logan Hospital, Metro South Hospital and Health Service
- Ms Melissa Fox, Chief Executive Officer, Health Consumers Queensland and a panel of consumer representatives
- Meeting documentation
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- Meeting Program (PDF, 228 KB)
- Meeting Report (PDF, 1 MB)
