Congratulations to Dr Margot Lodge, a geriatrician and PhD student at Central Clinical School's Peninsula Clinical School, who has won the prestigious Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) Career Investigator Award.
Dr Lodge presented part of her PhD work on improving perioperative care systems in older people (POPS) at the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZGSM) Annual Scientific Meeting in Brisbane.
“This research forms part of a mixed-methods approach to closing the implementation gap in the perioperative care of older people and improving the outcomes of older people undergoing surgery,” Dr Lodge said.
“Implementation science is an exciting next step to improving outcomes for older people undergoing surgery and as a clinician-researcher I look forward to advancing this approach.”
POPS is a proven multidisciplinary approach to improving outcomes for older people undergoing surgery originating in the UK. Dr Lodge’s PhD, Improving perioperative outcomes for older people undergoing surgery, involved conducting an international qualitative study and interviewing 56 clinicians and managers involved in the delivery of the POPS model of care. Implementation science was used to analyse data and describe the key core elements of the POPS service, and Dr Lodge presented the findings at the conference.
Through this research, Dr Lodge developed a multiple-site logic model with themes describing the core elements of the POPS model of care.
The results suggest that POPS is a flexible intervention that can be adapted to 'fit' local context when applying comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and care optimisation, and that it should be delivered by staff with specialised skills and attitudes.
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