Thread by @CroakeyNews

Next session up at #ASMIRT2023, with a focus here on evidence based practice and research while @AlisonSBarrett will be tweeting re the stream on building a resilient & responsive workforce

On why #ASMIRT2023 is talking about the need to build an evidence base, @CMalamateniou told Croakey: "Radiography is a relatively new profession, so it still builds its evidence base. ...It leans equally on technology & person-centred care. So these are the two areas of (focus)."

"Research is the basis for creating new solutions to new problems; in healthcare, research is about helping others: our patients and their carers and families...." @CMalamateniou #ASMIRT2023

. @CMalamateniou shared this 2009 piece as background on the growing focus on research in radiography #ASMIRT2023 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thanks @kimbomeek for this pick up in @AmandaBoldersto presentation on Qualitative research: Interpreting quality re @johnhewis work

https://twitter.com/kimbomeek/status/1652122395581501450

When she clicked the microphone, you could hear background chatter and banter...

It's a poem giving a voice to pa-tients’ lived experience of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in their own words, via @johnhewis #ASMIRT2023

researchgate.net/publication/35…

Loved this from @AmandaBoldersto in interview with Croakey re her work as EIC @JMIRS1

“That’s my soapbox: listening to people’s stories and using their words and qualitative research to reach hearts and minds.”

#ASMIRT2023

croakey.org/improving-canc…

. @AmandaBoldersto says quality criteria for qualitative research are an important but
debated topic. "As in quantitative work, broad concepts of validity & relevance can be used but the concepts & processes vary according to the different underpinning goals..." #ASMIRT2023

. @AmandaBoldersto talks re how to design and carry out trustworthy qualitative research using an eight-point framework developed by @SarahJTracy: a worthy topic, rich rigour, sincerity, credibility, resonance, significant contribution, ethics and meaningful coherence #ASMIRT2023

See full work by @SarahJTracy #ASMIRT2023

Big Tent Criteria for Qualitative Quality

sarahjtracy.com/wp-content/upl…

Prof Geoff Delaney from Liverpool Hospital is presenting at #ASMIRT2023 on: Bridging the gap between haphazard care and evidence-based care in cancer

Delaney says deviation from evidence-based care can occur for many valid reasons, eg where co-morbidities
preclude planned therapy or patients decline advice about evidence-based care after being adequately informed by their clinicians. Also done without valid reason #ASMIRT2023

Although an evidence-based model suggests 48% of Australians should receive radiotherapy at least once, only 28% currently do so - factors behind that include lower socioeconomic status and geographic distance from a treatment facility - Delaney #ASMIRT2023

This has led to initiatives to improve access to radiotherapy including reducing waiting times, reducing fractionation schedules and funding of smaller radiotherapy facilities in rural centres to reduce travel time - Delaney #ASMIRT2023

However, using retrospective data to reduce variations in care based on individual clinician decision-making has been largely unsuccessful due to slowness of the analytical process - Delaney #ASMIRT2023

Delaney is proposing a near-real time decision support
system as a possible contribution to improving the link between evidence-based care and patient decision making. #ASMIRT2023

Thanks @kimbomeek (again!) #ASMIRT2023

https://twitter.com/kimbomeek/status/1652134266661388288