Closing the health gap in Central Australia: reduction in Indigenous Australian inpatient self-discharge rates following routine collaboration with Aboriginal Health Workers

• Main Authors: Tim Cheok (Author), Morgan Berman (Author), Richard Delaney-Bindahneem (Author), Matthew Phillip Jennings (Author), Linda Bray (Author), Ruurd Jaarsma (Author), Pradeep Mathew Poonnoose (Author), Kanishka Williams (Author), Narlaka Jayasekera (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Indigenous Australians experience significant socioeconomic disadvantage and healthcare disparity compared to non-Indigenous Australians. A retrospective cohort study to describe the association between rates of self-discharge in Indigenous orthopaedic patients and the introducti...