This report details the findings of a study commissioned by the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) in 2018
as part of its objective to increase data use by healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to improve health
outcomes. Drawing primarily from survey and interview data from 62 custodians and users of primary care data used for
secondary purposes in Australia, the study explored the primary care-related datasets considered available in
Australia and their data linkage status; the quality frameworks being used to assess primary care datasets; and the
stakeholder perceptions of enablers and barriers to strategically building benefit and capacity of primary care data
use
Funding
Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, MRFF Rapid Research Translation Scheme National Systems Level Initiative Support