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Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project

The Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project is a quality improvement activity for GPs. The project has been developed by the National Prescribing Service (NPS) in conjunction with the Australian General Practice Network (AGPN).

The aim of the PDGPD project is to determine whether a multifaceted intervention leads to improved prescribing practice and short term clinical outcomes for patients with hypertension or chronic heart failure. The project will also assess whether the intervention is acceptable and sustainable in general practice. The intervention is being implemented by the Pharmaceutical Decision Support and Health Professional teams from the NPS in co-operation with the AGPN. The evaluation is being conducted by the Research & Development team at NPS with the support and advice of the PDGPD study guidance group:

  • Professor Jane Gunn (Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Melbourne)
  • Professor Nigel Stocks (Head, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide)
  • Professor Jon Emery (Head of School and Chair, Department of General Practice, University of Western Australia.

The intervention gathers feedback on GPs’ prescribing for hypertension and chronic heart failure and uses this feedback as a basis for discussion with practice peers and a trained facilitator in order to improve management of people with these conditions. The feedback is in the form of clinical indicator results (such as the percentage of chronic heart failure patients managed by a GP being prescribed a certain treatment) and is generated by a data extraction software tool already widely used by general practices. The impact of the intervention will be formally evaluated to determine whether it promotes good prescribing practice, improves short term patient outcomes and is acceptable and sustainable within general practices.

A pilot of the project has been conducted in three general practices. Ethics approval for the pilot has been granted by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) National Research and Evaluation Ethics Committee. Recruitment for the main study has commenced and will involve approximately 180 practices throughout Australia.

Date published: 2009-04-14 00:00:00

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