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Home Clinical resources Clinical guidelines Key RACGP guidelines View all RACGP guidelines Putting prevention into practice: Guidelines for the implementation of prevention in the general pra Provided under licence
Guidelines for the implementation of prevention in the general practice setting
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  1. Green Book
    1. Introduction
    2. Understanding the basics
      1. About prevention
      2. About implementation
      3. Bringing prevention and implementation together
    3. Whole-of-practice prevention
      1. Introduction
      2. Your practice population
      3. Your practice team
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    4. Approaches to implementation
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      2. Using an implementation framework
      3. The PRACTICE framework
    5. Putting prevention into practice
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      6. Targeted to people and priorities
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      8. Collaborating to make it work
      9. Effectiveness (and efficiency)
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      2. Managing patient information to support preventive care
      3. Creating an environment that supports prevention
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