Redfern, Julie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8707-5563
Hafiz, Nashid
Hyun, Karice
Knight, Andrew
Hespe, Charlotte
Chow, Clara K.
Briffa, Tom
Gallagher, Robyn
Reid, Christopher
Hare, David L.
Zwar, Nicholas
Woodward, Mark
Jan, Stephen
Atkins, Emily R.
Laba, Tracey-Lea
Halcomb, Elizabeth
Billot, Laurent
Johnson, Tracey
Usherwood, Timothy
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1140807)
Article History
Received: 6 January 2020
Accepted: 5 February 2020
First Online: 14 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval has been obtained from the New South Wales Population & Health Services Research Ethics Committee (HREC, HREC/18/CIPHS/44), this approval also meets the formal approval requirements for Queensland. Ethics approval was granted with a waiver of consent. A waiver of consent is required because it will be impractical to collect individual consent from each patient and data linkage will be via data extraction from clinical software. The intervention will occur at the practice-level and we do not anticipate any harm for patients. However, if a practice wishes to withdraw from the study they will be free to do so at any time.
: Not applicable.
: The Improvement Foundation will receive service payments and reimbursement of travel costs to support delivery of the intervention but will not participate in data collection, analysis or interpretation. Participating PHNs and practices received a small reimbursement for their time and travel required to participate in this study. Andrew Knight and Charlotte Hespe have received financial payments for delivering collaborative quality improvement programs for the Improvement Foundations but will provide these services in-kind for the QUEL study. EH is an Editorial Board Member of BMC Family Practice. MW has received consulting fees from Amgen, Inc. and Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd.