This is a summary of important findings from a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program for type 2 diabetes care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care (PHC). The program has been in place for more than 10 years, with 175 health centres across Australia giving the ABCD National Research Partnership permission to analyse data from this program.
The ABCD National Research Partnership works across states and territories in Australia to improve the quality of primary health care available to Indigenous people.
Researchers looked at data from clinical audits in community controlled, government and non-government health centres in very remote, remote, and non-remote areas. Over a number of years they measured and compared the following five items of type 2 diabetes care:
1 laboratory tests
2 physical checks by the health centre team
3 physical checks by specialists
4 brief interventions for nutrition and exercise
5 education and counselling interventions for tobacco and high-risk alcohol use.
This document contains two research briefs containing:
A summary of research findings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers/Health Practitioners
A summary of research findings for Community Health Board
