Welcome to The QUAD – the home of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) in Chronic Airways Disease (CAD) for healthcare professionals. The Lung Learning Partnership has worked with national key opinion leaders to design and deliver a program for healthcare professionals.



These education packages have been co-designed to meaningfully reflect priority QUM-related issues for people with CAD and promote patient empowerment as key to optimal management. Our evidence-based education packages provide support for the primary care workforce in delivering best-practice care at critical points in the patient journey.

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This education package you are selecting to enrol in is being independently evaluated by a research team from the University of Wollongong (UOW).

The UOW team will be provided with aggregated, non-identifiable responses of self-appraisal and survey questions from all participants, for evaluation purposes.

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Identifying, assessing and diagnosing breathlessness

Breathlessness is a highly prevalent, complex symptom in clinical practice. It is the cardinal symptom of many chronic respiratory and cardiac conditions, and a key indicator for poorly controlled chronic airways disease. It can severely impact daily activities and overall quality of life.

In consultation with national key opinion leaders in breathlessness, Lung Foundation Australia has developed a self-paced eLearning education package focused on identifying, assessing and diagnosing breathlessness.

The eLearning introduces the breathlessness checklist shared-care tool and includes a reflective practice audit guide. It also provides evidence-based methods for identifying and assessing breathlessness, practical self-management advice for patients, and ongoing resources and support.

Stepwise management of stable COPD to prevent exacerbations

Discover easy-to-understand, evidence-based, clinical strategies designed to empower healthcare professionals in preventing COPD exacerbations. This co-designed module uses practical case-based scenarios to demonstrate the application of evidence-based strategies and clinical resources including:

- Stepwise Management of Stable COPD
- COPD Action Plan and Self-Management Strategies
- Exacerbation Algorithm

Aligned with national clinical guidelines (the COPD-X Plan), this course equips you with essential, patient-centred tools for optimising treatment and implementing preventive measures effectively. These guided best-practice tools are simple and easy to implement into clinical practice and aligned to the latest CPD requirements.

Personalised management of asthma to prevent flare-ups in children

Despite advances in asthma care, many families face challenges implementing consistent management strategies, leading to preventable emergency department visits and hospitalisations.

With so many diagnostic tests and treatments as well as clinical practice tools and guidelines, we recognise it can be challenging to stay up to date.

The Paediatric Asthma Care collection on ASTHMAXCHANGE has been designed based on insights from the lived experience of people with asthma as well as multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.

The first step is to begin with a Self Appraisal. This is an opportunity to assess your current awareness, knowledge, skills and application in terms of best practice, person-centred asthma care for children.

Then, explore the Paediatric Asthma Care collection based on your current knowledge and interest. You could begin with a recap the principles of diagnosing and treating childhood asthma and develop confidence in applying your knowledge from CPD accredited online medical education.

Alternatively, review the recordings and resources from the Paediatric Asthma Care Masterclasses and hear from our multidisciplinary panels on practical engagement strategies for person-centred care, or addressing the complex cycle of reliever over-reliance.

Our education packages all include multi-modal education and behaviour change activities that support healthcare professionals to deliver evidence-based care.

The Quality Use of Medicines in Chronic Airways Disease Program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. This is an initiative by the Lung Foundation Australia, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and Asthma Australia.

Lung Foundation Australia The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Asthma Australia