An illustrative guide to a Policy Lab model: contributing to evidence-informed policies for digital technology in youth mental health care.

ObjectiveThis article provides researchers with an illustrative guide for a workshop model that facilitates evidence-informed policy. The Policy Lab model supports collaboration between experts and policymakers; in the example provided, participants considered digital technologies with near-term potential to improve youth mental health care.MethodThe Policy Lab model uses structured workshop activities to explore a policy question, before narrowing the focus on potential answers.

"They already trusted us a lot": Allied health students' experiences of an innovative hospital, service-focussed placement model.

Background: A service-focussed placement model involves an innovative partnership between service and education providers to a) address service delivery needs and b) facilitate students' competency development. Services are collaboratively redesigned such that students are positioned as collaborators in service delivery with their learning supported through evidence-informed educational design. This model was implemented in the hospital setting and was found to promote positive patient outcomes.

Lean-Based Approach to Improve Emergency Department Throughput.

ObjectiveLean methodology can be utilized to increase throughput in a fast-track care area without changing staffing in a busy, urban emergency department (ED). Methods A retrospective before-and-after analysis was performed to an improvement process in a fast-track care area within an ED with a census of 100,000 patients. The intervention utilized Lean methodologies to identify inefficiencies in the throughput model set for patients triaged to fast-track.

Mothers' experience seeking healthcare advice for their unsettled infants in Victoria, Australia.

Unsettled infant behaviours are highly prevalent in the postnatal period and constitute a significant proportion of visits to healthcare services. Unsettled infant behaviours can be highly distressing for parents and are identified as a significant risk factor for postnatal depression. Understanding parents' experiences is paramount to reducing the gap between consumer expectations and service delivery.