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Information for healthcare professionals
Why participate
The ADCQR aims to monitor the quality (appropriateness and effectiveness) of health care for people with diabetes by routinely collecting and analysing clinical performance data. It will provide clinicians, health service managers, people with diabetes and other stakeholders with ongoing, risk adjusted, benchmarked feedback on clinical practice and health outcomes, to improve the local standard of care for people with diabetes.
How to participate
To register your interest in participating in the ADCQR, please download and complete the registration form and email the completed form to the ADCQR Secretariat at adcqr@monash.edu. Alternatively, health services may contact the ADCQR Secretariat at this email address to enquire about registration.
Your diabetes centre must nominate a local Principal Investigator (PI). The PI is the ADCQR main point of contact and is responsible for site participation and compliance with ADCQR policies and procedures.
Inclusion in ADCQR is voluntary, and there are no financial incentives for clinicians or their patients to participate. The feedback report and site analysis are provided to participating clinicians free of charge, and allow them to monitor their own performance against other participating diabetes centres and national benchmarks.
Getting started
Once initial contact has been made, the ADCQR Secretariat will advise your centre on how to begin preparing for ADCQR data collection. The ADCQR Central Management team will help coordinate application submissions for local ethics and governance approvals. ADCQR will provide necessary resources to assist and train all relevant staff prior to data collection commencing.
To view the ADCQR data collection form, please click here.
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The process
There are three stages of setting up your diabetes centre as a participating ADCQR site:
1. Engagement of relevant site staff, departments and administration
2. Local governance approvals and, where relevant, local ethics approvals
3. Training of site staff
Requirements for participation
To participate in the ADCQR, your diabetes centre must be able to meet the following criteria:
1. Ability and commitment to enter all eligible patients into the database;
2. Nomination of a PI to oversee and manage local data collection
3. Ability to establish and maintain internal systems for data accuracy and timely data entry
4. Willingness to comply with the project protocol and ethics requirements
5. Willingness to sign a ADCQR Collaborative/Data Sharing Agreement that outlines the mutual obligations and use of data