Dr Bridget Abell

Thanks to @scartledge.bsky.social this was a surprise but I am honoured to be on a list with so many wonderful colleagues and friends! ACRA is full of passionate people trying to improve things for our cardiac rehab patients and clinicians. It's been 15 years well spent supporting them to do that!

So great to see the culmination of @thomasinadonovan.bsky.social PhD work is now published and accessible to others to pilot with their own #impsci teams. It's a great tool for costing implementation even beyond digital health, and has a bunch of online resources here: cost-is.github.io/instrument/

Looking for a job opportunity in #impsci? Want to come work in Brisbane, Australia with our great team for the next 3 years? Then apply for this exciting opportunity to work across a bunch of impactful projects!

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

Come and listen to our symposium about community and consumer engagement at 11am today!

Unpacking the value of #digitalhealth, a new #AusHSI blog by Dr Sunny Naicker explores the multiple hats that digital health researchers wear to tackle the complexity of integrating digital health innovations to improve health systems.

Learn more: bit.ly/aushsidigiutb #aushsidigital #hsr24

6/ Big thanks to all my co-authors. Open to discussing international synergies, future directions and potential collaborations. 🙌
Link to the paper: rdcu.be/d1buv

6/ So what next?
Future approaches will benefit from integrating, leveraging, and growing existing services, although adoption of new models may be needed. Greater systematic coordination of care pathways is still required to optimise care delivery.

5/ What did we find?
Community-based primary care services, paediatric clinics, child development services, neonatal follow-up programmes, and allied health providers were commonly accessed pathway components.

4/ What did we find?
Neurodevelopmental follow-up care for children with CHD in Australia is delivered as pathways through existing services rather than the centre-based cardiac programmes common in North America. Our study describes alternate options and how these can adapted to local context.

2/ What did we do?
A qualitative study, using semi-structured virtual interviews with 52 healthcare professionals across Australia involved in neurodevelopmental care of children with CHD. Rapid qualitative analysis to identify, categorise, and understand care pathways and services.

Neurodevelopmental follow-up care pathways and processes for children with congenital heart disease in Australia Pediatric Research - Neurodevelopmental follow-up care pathways and processes for children with congenital heart disease in Australia

1/ 📢 Excited to share our new paper in Pediatric Research! We explore neurodevelopmental follow-up care pathways and processes for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) in Australia. 🧵👇
Link: rdcu.be/d1buv