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Five Workshops for Health and Human Services Improvement
 

 
 

Red workshops are Open, Blue workshops are Closed or Pending
 

 
 

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1. Measuring Health-related Quality of Life

Measuring patient-centred health outcomes - quality of life, health status, and patient satisfaction
 


This workshop targets the skills needed to assess health state as perceived by the patient.  Participants learn to evaluate and select tests suitable for their program or patients

 


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2. Designing a Valid Questionnaire

Designing a valid questionnaire - a questionnaire that measures what you intend it to
 

Questionnaires form the basis of much healthcare improvement but are not well understood.

This hands-on workshop provides both theory and practice in developing valid questionnaires

 


Sydney, one-day, Friday October 16, 2009 (Closed)

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3. How to Evaluate or Plan a Health Care Program

How to evaluate or develop a healthcare program in the era of evidence-based medicine & patient-centred care
 

With the rise of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and patient-centred care (PCC) there has been a systematic change in the way that healthcare programs are developed and assessed, including the emergence of data linkage.

This workshop examines these changes and identifies how programs and services are now best evaluated or planned.
 


Perth, one-day, Friday September 4th 2009 (Closed)

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4. Making Better Decisions

The science of how humans make decisions, and methods for making better decisions

 

Investigating how humans make decisions has revealed we are nothing like as rational as had been assumed. This work has led to several Nobel prizes and changed our understanding of how to improve health and human services.

 Participants will learn to apply the methods and insight of cognitive and behavioural science to develop improved programs and decision systems.
 


Canberra, one-day, Friday 18 September 2009 (Closed)

Perth, one-day, Saturday 5th September 2009 (Closed)

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