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Dr Louise Wiles is a clinical physiotherapist and researcher whose special interests include developing indicators of appropriate/quality care, e-health, and consumer engagement.
Louise has a seven-year history of research project design, data collection, interpretation of results, and publishing in the fields of developing guideline-derived indicators, appropriateness (quality) of care, qualitative (stakeholder) perspectives, and evidence-based practice. Louise’s work on the CareTrack Kids project (NHMRC Partnership Grant APP 1065898) saw the development, testing, evaluation and analysis of over 450 quality indicators that were applied in a large-scale medical record audit of nearly 7,000 Australian children. As Project Manager for the STANDING Collaboration study (NHMRC Program Grant Creating safe, effective systems of care: The translational challenge; APP1054146), Louise tested a new method for developing indicators for appropriate/quality care with expert stakeholder panels, and led an evaluation of this approach using multi-methods analyses. In addition, Louise led a stakeholder engagement process for a systematic review of the methods and effects of consumer engagement in health care policy, research and services. Louise has thirteen years’ clinical experience working as a physiotherapist in both public and private healthcare sectors, mostly in acute and intensive care settings. |