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Students - Dominic Robin Guda

 

Robin Guda           
Dr Dominic Robin Guda
PhD Student, Centre for Health Stewardship ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences
MBBS, DPH, MBA

Contact Details:
Telephone: 6125 0625
Email: robin.guda@anu.edu.au

 

 

 

 

Biography

Robin Guda is currently a PhD Candidate at the ANU Centre for Health Stewardship in collaboration with the Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety of Monash University. He worked previously for non-government organizations of Bangladesh to ensure clinical governance and quality of primary health care services offered by NGO clinics. His research interests are on performance management; quality improvement and process redesign methodologies in health service delivery system.

Publications

 

 

Projects

Service Specific Chronic Disease Registers to Improve Chronic Disease Management Interventions in Public Sector Health Services

Project Description:

It is estimated that one in six Australians over the age of 45 years have chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases; 4% of the population over 45 years old have chronic heart failure; and the total national prevalence of diabetes mellitus is 7.4%. However, several studies found gaps in the quality of chronic diseases care. The factors contributing to the gaps include method of financing, availability of other disciplines to participate in team care, limited engagement with self-management education, and lack of information and decision support systems. To improve chronic disease care, it is clear that we need a transformed approach to care delivery and the most widely accepted model for such approach is the Wagner’s Chronic Care Model. It is evident that clinical information management can play an important role in successful implementation of sustainable chronic disease management initiatives. The central element in Wagner’s Chronic Care Model is the use of chronic disease management register for individual and population management of chronic conditions. Healthcare demands person-to-person interaction for collaborative diagnosis, treatment assessment, planning and decision-making to lead to a ‘partnership model’ of information use. Technologies in information systems for chronic diseases management are critical to achieve recommended clinical outcomes. The PhD research will focus on the characteristics and role of chronic disease management register with view to facilitate population management and support long-term orientation of chronic care within the health system. . The research will be mainly qualitative using quantitative materials for illustration purposes. It will work with the health system; resources; service provision and processes; patients and carers; health outcomes; and quality of health care. The outline for information collection methods will be interview of key informants of health services; organizational surveys: environmental, organizational, and team factors associated with success to achieve organization- and patient-level changes and reports; document review; patient and carers surveys; analysis medical records, primary care data, patient care plans; business process mapping; and team work.
Supervisors:

  • Dr. Paul Dugdale
  • Dr. Sue Evans
  • Dr. Brian Richards

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