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Core Standard 5 Clinical management of health issues
Welfare (AIHW), the leading cause of preventable deaths in Australia is coronary heart disease,23 illustrating an area in which preventive healthcare could improve patient health outcomes.
A holistic approach to care encourages a practice to consider and respond to each patient’s individual circumstances when providing health promotion, preventive care, early detection and intervention.
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For example: • heritage (eg does the patient identify as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin?) • financial circumstances (eg will they be able to afford the recommended treatment?) • medical or social conditions (eg was the patient a refugee? Did the patient experience childhood abuse?) • LGBTQIA status (eg is the patient struggling with their status or adjusting to a new status?).
You can also coordinate with other health professionals and agencies to undertake health promotion and achieve preventive care objectives.
Criterion C4.1 – Health promotion and preventive care
Indicator
C4.1 A Our patients receive appropriately tailored information about health promotion, Illness prevention, and preventive care.
Core Standard 5 - Clinical management of health issues
Our practice provides care that is relevant to the patient and consistent with best available evidence
Australia’s current primary healthcare systems base their practices on the best available evidence. This recognises that, in the absence of properly conducted clinical trials or other evidence of equal or greater reliability, peer group consensus may be an accepted level of evidence and may be the best available evidence at the time.
It is important that: • practitioners can exercise clinical autonomy in decisions that affect clinical care • you provide practitioners with access to up-to-date clinical information, and have appropriate processes in place to support practitioners.
Criterion C5.1 – Diagnosis and management of health issues
Indicators
C5.1 A Our clinical team is able to access relevant current clinical and other guidelines that help diagnose and manage our patients. C5.1 B Our clinical team supports consistent diagnosis and management of our patients.
