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July 13, 2020
“I think HealthPathways should be commended for having very clear messaging, very clear links…there’s some really clear guidance, localised around regions. I actually think HealthPathways is the clearest place to get everything you want.”
In a recent Department of Health COVID-19 response update to general practitioners, the HealthPathways platform was praised as being the clearest place to get everything you want for GPs managing patients during the pandemic.
Supported by the Clinical Excellence Division of Queensland Health, Queensland HealthPathways teams worked collaboratively to develop a suite of COVID-19 pathways in response to the pandemic—with the Brisbane North HealthPathways team heavily involved in this effort.
In early March, when local GPs expressed confusion and a lack of clear COVID-19 guidance for general practice, the Brisbane North HealthPathways clinical editor, Dr Fabian Jaramillo, wrote the first pathway of the suite, COVID-19 Assessment and Management.
This pathway was endorsed by the State Health Emergency Coordination Centre (SCHECC) and became the source of truth for the management of COVID-19 in general practices in Queensland.
The pathway is updated as changes are made in national and state guidelines and has been adopted by the other HealthPathways teams in Queensland, with this regional collaborative approach now being used to develop other COVID-19 related pathways.
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