Research Campaigns

Research Campaigns are collaborations between DCP and research organisations such as Adelaide and Flinders university.

These allow researchers to set up trials of preventive care interventions that promote and enhance uptake of preventive care activities.

Specific focused activities might include immunisations or investigations that are part of recommended guidelines.

DCP will display a prompt to GP's who have enrolled in the campaign.

The campaigns can include specific messaging and questionaire functionlity for GP's.

Additionally the campaigns may send preconsultation SMS messages to patients who are eligible via the campaign filter criteria.

The SMS messages will contain a short note recommending the patient discuss the recommended activity withy their GP at consultation.

Campaigns will generally run for 12 months and aim to collect information about enrolled GP's activities.

Enroled GP's will be placed in to an intervention or control group for the purpose of validating results.

Research

DCP has been involved in research projects since 2012. See our published research.

DCP is currently being used in 4 active reasearch projects and several more are in development.

DCP can be used to assist researchers :-

1. Targeting specific patient populations.
2. Patient recruitment.
3. Patient interaction via SMS and information sheets.
4. Patient information gathering.
5. GP education and engagement.
6. Feedback and questionnaires.
7. Monitoring and Audits.
8. Intervention analysis.

DCP Campaigns