CCGR Projects

The CCGR is currently working on, or has completed, the following projects:

A longitudinal program to conceptualise, empiricise and evaluate clinician-managers' roles, behaviours and activities
A project to develop interventions to overcome the limits of medicine in managing the dying process in acute care hospitals
A project to examine and enhance clinician managers' capacity as agents of change
A project to resolve the clinical, practical and ethical challenges of disseminating and implementing hospital-based Root Cause Analysis (RCA) recommendations
A research program with the Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW to prospectively study the Commission’s Programs to improve the safety and quality of health care in New south Wales: 2004 – 2005
A research program with the Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW to prospectively study the Commission’s Programs to improve the safety and quality of health care in New south Wales: 2006 - 2007
An evaluation of the New South Wales Health Incident Information Management System
An evaluation of the New South Wales Health Safety Improvement Program
Anchoring preventative health: an exploration of local methods of organising and improving clinical practices
An international cross-cultural study to examine how cllinician-managers and health services managers use their time
Aims retrieval medicine incident reporting: an investigation of reporters' expressions of attitude and feeling
Development of an impact evaluation tool to evaluate work-based projects as part the Pacific Health Leadership and Management Development Programme
Evaluation of a clinical practice improvement program
Evaluation of the impact of point of care clinical information systems on staff and clinical work
Evaluation of the Safety Improvement Program in New South Wales: overview of studies
Examinations of the relationship between accreditation and clinical and organisational performance
Giving voice to patient safety
Identify and evaluate a knowledge management program for the Quality Branch of the NSW Health Department
Managing cultural diversity in the workplace south east health
Organisational restructuring: options for change
Restructuring of health services
Soft systems methodology plus (SSM+): a guide for Australian health care professionals
Streams of Care and Clinical Directorates in large teaching hospitals: effects and implications and relationship to organisational performance
Evaluation of the Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS)
Inter-professional learning (IPL) in primary health care to encourage active patient self management of chronic disease
Evaluating the impact of the 'patient-as-professional within a network' tool to self manage chronic disease
Evaluating communities of practice and social-professional networks: the development, design, testing, refinement, simulation and application of an evaluation network

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Final reports from the projects, where available, are presented in the CCGR publications page.