State Health Research Advisory Council

Funding and Awards

SHRAC Research Translation Projects 2007/08

In 2007 the first round of Research Translation Projects attracted 114 applications. A total of $2 million was awarded for 18 research projects ranging from $8,000 to $190,000.

The successful applicants and their project titles are listed below.

Principal Investigator	PI Organisation	Title
Ms Melissa Barrett	Combined University Centre for Rural Health	Implementation and Evaluation of a Palliative Rural respite nursing service
Dr Gervase Chaney	Princess Margaret Hospital	An ambulatory care coordination (ACC) program for children with chronic conditions that applies the chronic disease self-management model provides economic benefits for the health system in reduction of hospital utilisation
A/Prof Jim Codde	South Metropolitan Area Health Service	A multifaceted intervention to reduce demand for emergency department services by residents of aged care facilities through improved primary care services
Dr Stephanie Davies	Fremantle Hospital	Self-Training Educative Pain Sessions to provide earlier self-management advice to patients referred to a State Government Pain Medicine Unit
Dr Elizabeth Davis	Princess Margaret Hospital	Can a novel community based approach improve care for children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes and reduce hospital length of stay and rate of readmission?
Dr Dorota Doherty	Women and Infants Research Foundation	Evaluation of pregnancy outcomes and cost-effectiveness of models of antenatal care and preferred setting for labour and birth care in women at low risk of pregnancy complications
Prof Judith Finn	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	Criteria led discharge for cardiovascular patients
A/Prof Gary Geelhoed	Princess Margaret Hospital	Reduction of Admission Rate for Children with Asthma Presenting to Perth’s Emergency Departments
Prof Yogesan Kanagasingam	Lions Eye Institute	Inexpensive technologies to enable primary care providers and nurses to perform initial eye examinations closer to home
Dr Rhonda Marriott	Murdoch University	Improving wound care in Indigenous communities in WA: a partnership with Indigenous communities to develop culturally inclusive approaches to prevention and management of complex wounds
Dr Andrew Martin	Princess Margaret Hospital	A Randomised Controlled Trial: home oxygen therapy versus hospital oxygen therapy for children with acute bronchiolitis
Ms Julie McCormack	Princess Margaret Hospital	Building community capacity and improving efficiencies for rural and remote patients with eating disorders: innovation treatment pathways
Prof Richard Mendelson	Royal Perth Hospital	Impact of implementing an evidence-based decision support application on reducing inappropriate medical imaging services, managing growth in expenditure, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital services
Dr Sutapa Mukherjee	Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital	Development of a triage questionnaire for rural sleep apnoea patients
Mr Sudhakar Rao	Royal Perth Hospital	Identifying clinical predictors of longer-term outcomes among severe physical trauma survivors: Evaluating the effectiveness of a collaborative multidisciplinary intervention for improving long term physical, psychological, and economic outcomes.
Prof Michael Stacey	University of WA	Development of an indicator to predict leg ulceration after deep vein thrombosis – a novel method to target preventative measures
A/Prof Sandra Thompson	Curtin University	Beating longer, beating stronger: improving cardiac rehabilitation and building partnerships to reduce hospitalisation and mortality in Aboriginal people with heart disease
Dr Frank Willis	Princess Margaret Hospital	Detection of traumatic intracranial haematomas in children using a hand-held near-infrared HematoscopeTM to reduce the use of CT scans and become more cost effective in the management of head injuries

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