Birang Daruganora: what do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities need in a new hospital? A qualitative study.

Objectives: To elicit the Aboriginal community's cultural and healthcare needs and views about six prominent and emerging models of care, to inform the development of a new hospital.

Design: Cross-sectional qualitative study co-designed and co-implemented by Aboriginal team members.

Setting: Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Innovative Models of Care for Hospitals of the Future.

New ways of providing acute care outside of traditional hospital building complexes, such as virtual care or hospital in the home, are becoming more common. Despite this, many hospitals are still conceived as "bricks and mortar" centralised constructions, and few health service infrastructure organisations meet intensively with consumers or clinicians prior to conceptualising hospital design. Our study sought to understand the needs and expectation of community members and healthcare providers, and co-design innovative models of acute care to inform development of a new metropolitan hospital in Australia.

Development and evaluation of an internet- and mobile-based intervention for individualized return to work planning after inpatient rehabilitation - Study protocol for a randomized-controlled-trial.

Background: Following discharge, it is crucial for patients to transfer intentions and action plans from inpatient rehabilitation into everyday life. This ensures their reintegration into social and working life and prevents economic costs due to sick leave or reduced earning capacity pension. However, most established aftercare programs do not specifically address occupational problems or challenges during occupational measures such as graded return to work.

Consumer and provider perceptions of the specialist unit model of care: A qualitative study.

Background: Specialist care units cater to targeted cohorts of patients, applying evidence-based practice to people with a specific condition (e.g., dementia) or meeting other specific criteria (e.

The diversity of providers' and consumers' views of virtual versus inpatient care provision: a qualitative study.

Background: A broad-based international shift to virtual care models over recent years has accelerated following COVID-19. Although there are increasing numbers of studies and reviews, less is known about clinicians' and consumers' perspectives concerning virtual modes in contrast to inpatient modes of delivery.

Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study in late 2021 examining consumers' and providers' expectations of and perspectives on virtual care in the context of a new facility planned for the north-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia.