Title Improving the patient journey : achieving positive outcomes for remote Aboriginal cardiac patients / project leader Monica Lawrence ; project team members Zell Dodd...[and others]

Published Casuarina, NT : Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, 2009

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	362.10899915 Law/Itp		AVAILABLE

Description vi, 20 pages ; 30 cm Notes Report based on "...the trialling in early 2007 of a Pilot Remote Nurse Liason Service for Aboriginal patients living in remote Northern Territory communities who needed to travel south for life-saving heart surgery...Support for the activity has come from a range of quarters, including the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Flinders University, Adelaide and the Australian Nursing Federation." --Foreword, p.iii Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: (page 20) Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Medical care -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Heart -- Surgery -- Patients -- Services for -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Hospitals -- Patient representative services -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Patient representatives -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Patient advocacy -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Medical social work -- Northern Terrritory Nurse and patient -- Research. Communication in nursing. Author Dodd, Zell Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (Australia) ISBN 9780734040565

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