{"id":1243,"date":"2011-11-18T01:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:57:16","slug":"rch-takes-home-award-for-taking-warfarin-therapy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-takes-home-award-for-taking-warfarin-therapy-home\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH takes home award for taking warfarin therapy home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1244\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2011\/11\/18\/rch-takes-home-award-for-taking-warfarin-therapy-home\/warfarin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1244\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1244\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/Warfarin-290x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hon David Davis MLC with members of the RCH Anticogulation Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0has won a top public healthcare award for pioneering a home fingerprick blood test for children undergoing warfarin therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0RCH was\u00a0presented On Wednesday night with a Better Health Award for Excellence in Healthcare Outcomes through Person-Centred Care for its <em>Power to Parents, taking child warfarin therapy monitoring home<\/em> program.<\/p>\n<p>The award was presented by Minister for Health David Davis at the 2011 Victorian Public Healthcare Awards in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The Better Health Awards honour initiatives and services that demonstrate excellence, innovation and quality.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davis said the Excellence in Healthcare Outcomes through Person-Centred Care Award recognised improvements that resulted in better engagement and involvement of patients in their own care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Royal Children\u2019s Hospital program demonstrates how health services are innovating to provide services that are people and family centered, safe and evidence based,\u201d Mr Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>The RCH provides warfarin management to more than 130 children. Warfarin is an anticoagulant and children being treated with this drug require regular blood tests and monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2001, RCH has offered its pioneering point-of-care fingerprick tests to reduce the trauma associated with frequent blood tests, although regular visits to the hospital were still required\u201d Mr Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to this program, blood tests were performed by collecting blood via a needle from a vein, which is technically difficult and can be very painful and traumatic for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2003, RCH pioneered a home self-testing program to equip patients and families to safely and reliably perform tests at home, significantly reducing the burden of hospital visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents were taught to perform the blood test, in the form of a finger prick, understand the reading and report directly through to the hospital,\u201d Mr Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to honour those healthcare leaders that are providing new ideas and approaches to ensure our health system is sustainable and responsive to the needs of Victorians,\u201d Mr Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our population grows and ages \u2013 and as our health needs change and become increasingly complex \u2013 we also need to change our health services to ensure a focus on individual need and contemporary evidence-based practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) has won a top public healthcare award for pioneering a home fingerprick blood test for children undergoing warfarin therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}