Avant Foundation impact
We define and measure our goals so our impact can be tracked over the long term.
The impact goals of Avant Foundation have been designed to create lasting, positive change in the Australian medical landscape so that we can meet our objectives to:
- support research that will improve quality, safety, sustainability and professionalism in the practice of medicine
- fund programs working with medical practitioners to improve patient care and health outcomes
- help doctors overcome their experience of disadvantage in the pursuit of their medical or healthcare studies.
We ask all applicants to demonstrate how their research can be measured against our indicators and we prioritise grants that align with our impact goals.
These goals are set to create transformational change in healthcare through research, programs and bursaries. Our impact is defined under five domains: quality, safety, professionalism, sustainability and equity.
How your research aligns with our impact goals
Applicants should select up to three metrics from our impact goals to articulate their expected outcomes.
For example, you may choose the impact goals of ‘Quality of patient care’ and ‘Quality of medical practice’. You then choose up to three of the four metrics available. You decide to use two metrics and estimate how many patients will have improved health outcomes as a result of your research, and how many journal articles will be published about the research outcomes.
When your research is complete, the actual outcomes are recorded against the targets.
Indicators do not need scale to be considered valuable. We recognise that all improvements to medical practice have merit.
Our impact goals and their metrics
The following tables list our impact goals and the way we measure our support of the advancement of medical practice.
Quality
| Goal | Metrics (number/instances of) |
| Quality of patient care | Patients with improved health outcomes |
| Decrease in adverse outcomes | |
| Quality of medical practice | Publications on quality |
| Practices introduced to improve medical treatments or knowledge |
Safety
| Goal | Metrics (number/instances of) |
| Practitioner safety | Publications on safety |
| Initiatives to improve practitioner wellbeing | |
| Patient safety | Patients in a safer environment |
| Guidelines produced to improve safety |
Equity
| Goal | Metrics (number/instances of) |
| Equity in education | Doctors entering the profession who may otherwise have been excluded |
| Bursaries granted to underrepresented populations |
Professionalism
| Goal | Metrics (number/instances of) |
| Medical professionalism | Courses, conferences and learning programs attended by doctors |
| Leadership development conducted or attended by doctors |
Sustainability
| Goal | Metrics (number/instances of) |
| Environmental sustainability in medicine | Initiatives to reduce medication, consumables, or energy waste |
| Practices introduced to improve healthcare sustainability | |
| Sustainability in healthcare practice | Initiatives to reduce the need for healthcare |
| Patients supported to take a bigger role in managing their health |
Impact framework
