Better cardiac care - the patient experience - a qualitative study.

Background: In 2015, a Brisbane tertiary hospital's cardiac unit implemented a new model of multidisciplinary care (Better Cardiac Care (BCC)) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. Since then, clinical indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cardiac patients have improved, but the recipients' voices have not been heard. This research aimed to determine the acceptability and appropriateness, features of value, and opportunities for improvements in this model of care, from the perspective of patients and their family members.

Work-based feedback conversations with GP teachers.

Introduction: Feedback may play out in the general practice workplace less usefully than anticipated by educators. We investigated work-based feedback conversations about directly observed student tasks embedded in the supervisor's clinical consultations with patients.

Methods: Feedback conversations between GP teachers and medical students and subsequent student reflections were audio-recorded.

Rapid review of five years of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research in Australia - persisting under-representation of urban populations.

Objective: To review how published Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research reflects the geographical distribution of the Indigenous population of Australia.

Methods: Rapid review using Lowitja Institute Lit.search tool for PubMed indexed Indigenous health research papers (January 2013 to January 2018).

Knowing our patients: a cross-sectional study of adult patients attending an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary healthcare service.

Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live in urban areas, but epidemiological data about their health status and health needs are lacking. This knowledge is critical to informing and evaluating initiatives to improve service delivery and health outcomes. One potential data source is de-identified routinely collected clinical data.

The power of talk and power in talk: a systematic review of Indigenous narratives of culturally safe healthcare communication.

The study aimed to explore Indigenous narrative accounts of healthcare access within qualitative research papers, to better understand Indigenous views on culturally safe healthcare and health communication represented in that literature. A systematic literature review of peer-reviewed academic qualitative studies identified 65 papers containing Indigenous respondents' views on accessing healthcare. Analysis included all Indigenous voice (primary quotations) and author findings describing healthcare access across these studies.

Yarning about health checks: barriers and enablers in an urban Aboriginal medical service.

The annual health check for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People has been welcomed as a means of conducting a comprehensive assessment to address preventive health care delivery, identify new diagnoses and initiate new treatments. Rates of health check uptake across Australia have been poor with less than 12% of the eligible population receiving one during 2009/10. This qualitative study sought to identify barriers and enablers to undertaking health checks in an urban Aboriginal Medical Service through semistructured interviews with 25 clinical staff (doctors, nurses and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers).