Australian Divisions of General Practice have a key role to play in supporting
general practitioners (GPs) to provide proactive, preventive care for their
patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes. They can achieve this
by providing them with quality improvement information generated by population
health monitoring tools such as CARDIAB®™.
CARDIAB®™ has prompted the development of standard minimum
clinical datasets, enabled recording, monitoring and audit of quality of care
and health outcomes for diabetes and cardiovascular patients who are locally
enrolled in Division programs. It has also supported the improvement of services
within general practice and local secondary care services. GPs have been able to
audit their clinical performance and monitor quality of care and health outcomes
in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This article describes the evolution of
the CARDIAB®™ database from the grass roots level to a
nationally accepted database.
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