NICS works in a number of clinical program areas across the spectrum of health care.
Effective Practice
Works to test and trial implementation methods that support research translation. Current initiatives are listed below:
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Children and Adolescents
- National Emergency Care Pain Management Initiative
- Stroke and Transient Ischaemic Attack Care Bundle
Guideline Development
Information on NHMRC activities in guideline development.
Leadership
Works to build capacity in evidence implementation. Our activities in this area encompass NICS Fellowships, NICS Scholarships, and Visiting Experts. To provide practical support with implementing evidence in a variety of settings, we also produce and promote generic resources and tools that can be used across the health sector.
Research Implementation
These programs work to implement and evaluate national programs for evidence implementation.
Our key activities in this area include: Heart failure management, Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention, Private hospital VTE prevention, development of a VTE prevention guideline for use in the Australian health care context and development of a guideline for the management of volatile substance use.
- Volatile Substance Use
- Heart failure program
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder
Completed programs
- Venous thromboembolism prevention
- Pain Management Initiative planning
- Emergency Care Community of Practice (EC CoP)
- Evidence uptake networks
- Clinical Evidence project 2005-2007
- Cochrane library project
- Emergency department collaborative 2002-2003
- Pain management program 2004 - 2006
- Stories from the emergency department collaborative 2002-2003
- Targeted grants program 2001-2002