Aim
Provide sustainable public paediatric physiotherapy continence services and evaluate the primary and secondary contact MOC with patient reported outcome measures.
Outcomes
This initiative demonstrated patient-centred care by improving access, reducing wait times, and improving outcomes with high levels of referrer satisfaction; and developed clinician capability. This study will provide evidence for benchmarking across other paediatric healthcare centres and information that may assist other paediatric health services in their decision to implement similar service models in their hospitals.
This service utilises multiple digital technologies to provide family-centred care directly to their home. Telehealth was also used to establish a regional site in Townsville Hospital and Health Service (HHS) and provide clinical supervision to staff. A REDCap database was created, and for the first time, approval was received for families to directly enter their patient reported outcome measures (PROM) data, saving clinical time and possible data input errors. To enable high-level care across the state a multiple resource was developed for clinicians inclusive of a Project ECHO (an innovative inter-professional education and case-base learning model) series, podcasts and webinars, with positive feedback from the local and international allied health and medical specialists who attended.
Background
It is not common knowledge that 5 – 12% of children in Australia have urinary incontinence and up to 25% suffer from constipation.
