Table 4 Rural Health Project examples from the Human Research Classification System Categories and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and related health problems – 10th revision (ICD-10) categories

Individual care needs

• Diabetes - health promotion in adolescents

• Enhancing patient engagement in chronic disease

Organisation and delivery of services

• Telehealth in Beaudesert General Practice and Skin Cancer Clinic

• Closing the Gap – Practice Incentives Program: Indigenous health incentives, Gladstone

Management and decision making

• Burn-out in healthcare workers in the rural setting

• Antenatal exercise and gestational diabetes management at Kingaroy Hospital

Primary prevention interventions to modify behaviours or promote well-being

• Education and recognition of depression within a rural mining town

• Interventions for bariatric surgical follow-up in rural Queensland

Vaccines

• The Q-fever vaccine: education and awareness in Woorabinda

• Covid-19 - An educational incentive

ICD-10 Codes

Factors influencing health status and contact with health services

• A comparison of two new tools to communicate the triage process to reduce patient dissatisfaction with the waiting time at Roma Hospital emergency department.

• Interhospital transfers from Roma Hospital

Mental, and behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

• Health in the rural men’s shed: depression.

• Mental health: measuring baseline knowledge and efficacy of an educational presentation in rural adolescents

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases

• Exercise as medicine in the Bundaberg region’s veteran population

• Assessing the viability of opportunistic screening for undiagnosed Diabetes and pre-Diabetes in a busy rural emergency department

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

• Meningococcal W outbreak – The central Australian context

• Improving Access to Tetanus Prophylaxis in the Remote Community of Queensland

Neoplasms

• The exposed population - risk factors for skin malignancy

• Sunspot hot spot - Evaluating and improving skin cancer detection and prevention strategies