Improving Proactive Primary Health Care After Gestational Diabetes: Protocol for Implementation and Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Collaborative Program in General Practice (GooD4Mum) and Baseline Practice Characteristics

Rachel Canaway   ¹ , PhD ;   Samantha Kozica-Olenski   ² , PhD ;   Anusha Ramani-Chander   ² , PhD ;   Wendy Shepherdley   ¹ , Grad Cert ;   Sharleen O’Reilly   ³ , PhD ;   Tesfaye R Feyissa   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Vincent Versace   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Siew S Lim   ⁶ , PhD ;   Emily Callander   ² , PhD ;   Melinda Morrison   ⁷ , PhD ;   Mark Morgan   ⁸ , BM BCh, PhD ;   Jane Speight   ⁹ , PhD ;   Douglas I R Boyle   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Helena Teede   ^{2 *} , MBBS, PhD

¹ Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

² Monash Centre for Health Research & Implementation (MCHRI), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

³ School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

⁴ Deakin Rural Health, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

⁵ Department of Population Health, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Geohealth Lab, Kuwait, Kuwait

⁶ Health Systems and Equity, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

⁷ Diabetes Australia, Turner, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

⁹ Australian Foundation for Diabetes Research, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

*these authors contributed equally