Development and Evaluation of a digital patient support hub for frail older adults

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If you are seeking to advance your career in medicines safety, public health and gerontology/geriatrics, The University of Sydney is offering a fully funded PhD project in aged care in partnership with The University of Queensland and the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology and Ageing at the Kolling Institute - Royal North Shore Hospital.

Supervisor

Professor Sarah Hilmer.

Research location

Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH)

Synopsis

In your PhD project, you will focus on developing and evaluating a digital patient support hub for frail older adults to optimise medication management. This research will suit either pharmacists, medical professionals, nurses or individuals with public health training who are interested in learning how to co-design digital support tools for patients and their carers. Through this PhD project you will develop expertise in co-design, digital health development, implementation science and translation.

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3154

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Development and evaluation of computerised clinical decision support tools in primary care to improve quality use of medicines in older people living with frailty.