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Strengthening Care Outcomes for Residents with Evidence

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Overview

As part of its Strengthening Care Outcomes for Residents with Evidence initiative (SCORE), the Department of Health commissioned the Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care (ACEBAC) to develop and pilot evidence based standardised care processes (SCPs) to support Victorian Health Services operating aged care homes to provide high quality care to residents.

The SCPs have been refined, taking into account available evidence and input from those sites engaged in the pilot during 2009. Copies of the final SCPs and the summary final evaluation report are available.

Organisations wanting to translate evidence into practice using the standarised care processes in residential aged care services, need to consider:

  • the skills, training and competency of staff
  • access to equipment and supplies
  • access to medical, allied health and other services.

Organisational readiness and leadership in relation to change is integral to the implementation of evidence based practice.

Categories of clinical risks identified through SCORE were:

Abuse

Infections

Constipation

Medication management

Delirium

Oral and dental hygiene

Diabetes management

Pain

Depression

Palliative care

Falls

Skin integrity

Functional decline

Sleep management

Hydration and Nutrition

Swallowing disorders

Incontinence

Unmet needs behaviours

 

The following ten areas of risk were prioritised and evidence based care processes were developed.

These are now available and cover the following areas:

Constipation

Polypharmacy

Alternatives to physical restraint

Response to a hypoglycaemic episode

Unplanned weight loss

Depression

Responding to a choking episode

Delirium

Oral and dental hygiene

Dehydration



Download documents

pdf SCORE summary report August 2012 (138kb, pdf)

Standardised care processes developed through SCORE

pdf Standardised care process - choking (138kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - constipation (137kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - dehydration (135kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - delirium (136kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - depression (138kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - hypoglycemia (138kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - oral and dental hygiene (134kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - physical restraint (145kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - polypharmacy (136kb, pdf)
pdf Standardised care process - unplanned weight loss (136kb, pdf)

 

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Last updated: 20 September, 2012
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