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A new review from Curtin University published in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific reveals that Australia has developed numerous predictive health tools designed to identify individuals at risk for conditions including heart disease, falls, frailty, and diabetes complications. Despite the growing number of these evidence-based risk assessment tools, the research found that very few are being implemented in routine clinical practice, creating a significant gap between health innovation and actual patient care delivery.
Why it matters
This implementation gap means that potentially life-saving preventive interventions are not reaching patients who could benefit from early risk identification and intervention. Bridging this divide between research innovation and clinical practice could improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs by enabling earlier treatment of serious conditions before they progress.
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Promising health tools that seek to predict a person’s risk of serious health problems before they happen are rarely being used in everyday health care, according to new Curtin University research. The review, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, found Australia has developed a growing number of tools that can identify people at risk of conditions such as heart disease, falls, frailty and diabetes complications, but very few are being routinely used by health services.
Source: Australians missing out on 'major gap' between innovation and patient care