POLICY AND PRACTICE INFLUENCE AND IMPACT

Output:
CollaboRATE measure
Impact:
Realising Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland annual report 2015-2016

Institute of Medicine. 2015. Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/19402.

Alston, C., Z. Berger, S. Brownlee, G. Elwyn, F. J. Fowler Jr., L. K. Hall, V. M. Montori, B. Moulton, L. Paget, B. Haviland-Shebel, R. Singerman, J. Walker, M. K. Wynia, and D. Henderson. 2014. Shared Decision-Making Strategies for Best Care: Patient Decision Aids. NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.31478/201409f

Health Affairs Blog: 'An Innovative Patient-Centered Total Joint Replacement Program' (28 Mar 2016)
Wikipedia: 'Shared decision-making in medicine'
BMJ Blog: 'Richard Smith: Patients harmed by misdiagnosed preferences' (25 Sep 2014)

Also:
  • Highlighted by Barbara Prainsack in discussion of advances in PROM methodologies in 'Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?'
  • Used in training exercise on how to involve clients as informed participants in 'Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook' by Eileen Gambrill, Leonard Gibbs to prompt reflection on the concept of shared decision-making
  • Highlighted by as a measure of the quality of the decision making process in a discussion paper published by the National Academic of Medicine (formerly IOM) (https://nam.edu/perspectives-2014-shared-decision-making-strategies-for-best-care-patient-decision-aids/)
  • Highlighted in a BMJ analysis piece as an example of how 'Simple measures embedded in frontline practicecan offer realtime feedback to service staff and users and supportaccountability for sharing in decisions, care planning, andcoproduction and coordination of care' (New approaches to measurement and managementfor high integrity health systems)
Output:
Integrate
Elwyn G, Thompson R, John R, Grande SW. Developing IntegRATE: a fast and frugal patient-reported measure of integration in health care delivery. Int J Integr Care. 2015 Jan-Mar;15:e008.
Impact:
Realising Realistic Medicine: Chief Medical Officer for Scotland annual report 2015-2016
Output:
Induction decision aid

Broaden to decision aid development and evaluation more broadly?
Impact:
Clinical practice guideline
Output:
Data on patient experiences of perinatal decision-making ()

Broaden to patient experiences of interpersonal care, including participation in decision-making and care/communication????
Impact:
A driving purpose of my work is to ...
Philosophy is that quality health care encourages and support self determination

Between X and X, I led a program of work to generate and disseminate evidence of patient participation in decision-making in maternity care in Queensland. Altogether, I collected data on the experiences of X diverse maternity care consumers and disseminated it to scientists (via publications), to Queensland government (via reports), to clinicians (via facility-level reports) and to consumers and stakeholders (via media coverage in X outlets and as part of an interactive online Birthplace). This work has had a significant and sustained impact on policy and practice in and beyond Australia.

Used by government clinical guideline group as basis for recommending ... (Induction guideline)
Used directly by practices to improve their practice
Cited by opinion leaders in media to lobby for policy change
Led to policy on care outside guidelines
Measures used by PEER, maternity neighborhood?

Led, took responsibility for, pioneered, took control of, coordinated, oversaw, conducted, spearheaded, revolutionised, overhauled, transformed, designed, established, innovated, stimulated, secured, mastered, generated, produced,
Output:
Weight stigma
Impact:
A guiding principle in my work is to address disparities in health care and outcomes.
In X
Interviewed about this for New York Times Magazine
Output:
ICHOM

Nijagal MA, Wissig S, Stowell C, Olson E, Amer-Wahlin I, Bonsel G, Brooks A, Coleman M, Devi Karalasingam S, Duffy JMN, Flanagan T, Gebhardt S, Greene ME, Groenendaal F, R Jeganathan JR, Kowaliw T, Lamain-de-Ruiter M, Main E, Owens M, Petersen R, Reiss I, Sakala C, Speciale AM, Thompson R, Okunade O, Franx A. Standardized outcome measures for pregnancy and childbirth, an ICHOM proposal. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Dec 11;18(1):953. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3732-3.
Impact:
Care about robust research and minimising research waste.
Was recruited to the working party for a two-year project to . In this role, I advised on the
Co-authored (note author order was alphabetical for advisory board) paper.
Already cited loads.

World Health Organization. (‎2020)‎. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus: guidelines on antiviral prophylaxis in pregnancy: web annex B: systematic review of the performance of hepatitis B e antigen test, as an alternative to HBV DNA, to assess eligibility for initiating antiviral therapy during pregnancy. World Health Organization.

+ Health Affairs Blog
'Understanding The Impact Of Prenatal Care: Improving Metrics, Data, And Evaluation' (26 Feb 20)
Impact:
Going public
Output:
Duckett, S. and Nemet, K. (2019). Saving private health 1: Reining in hospital costs and specialist bills. Grattan Institute.
Sanders MR, Ralph A, Sofronoff K, Gardiner P, Thompson R, Dwyer S, Bidwell K. Every family: a population approach to reducing behavioral and emotional problems in children making the transition to school. J Prim Prev. 2008 May;29(3):197-222. doi: 10.1007/s10935-008-0139-7.
Policy: