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Academic Qualifications RN, ICU, BSc, MPH, PhD
Dr Abbenbroek is the Sepsis Australia and Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance Program Manager within the Critical Care Division at The George Institute for Global Health. He is on the Global Sepsis Alliance Executive Board and has over 35 years of experience working in clinical, education and management roles in critical care and Emergency. His PhD considered the efficiency and effectiveness of critical care service models, and the association with organisational reliability and outcomes for patients and the nurse workforce. This work informs the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines for new and redeveloped ICUs. He has extensive international experience working to establish cardiac surgical, critical care and system-wide service improvements in China, Croatia, Indonesia, Nepal and Vanuatu. Concurrently, he has held a range of health policy, planning, project management, digital health and clinical safety advisory roles. As the program manager for state-wide clinical service planning across intensive care, emergency and medical retrieval services, he led on implementation of an integrated model for critical care service delivery across NSW. This included establishing the state-wide ECMO retrieval service and the electronic Record for Intensive Care project. A health service planning and management consultancy business followed, leading to project manager roles within the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care on a series of national eHealth clinical safety programs, electronic medication safety and the development of evidence based national clinical care standards. In his current role, Brett is responsible for driving implementation of the Stopping Sepsis National Action Plan developed in response to the 2017 World Health Assembly resolution which recognises sepsis as a global threat and calls for nationally coordinated efforts to reduce the burden of sepsis.

Activities

Works (15)

Critical care resources, disaster preparedness, and sepsis management: Survey results from the Asia Pacific region

Journal of Hospital Administration
2022-07-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1927-7008
Part of ISSN: 1927-6990
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Brett Abbenbroek

Critical care health professionals’ self-reported needs for wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of survey responses

Australian Critical Care
2022-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on critical care healthcare workers' depression, anxiety, and stress levels

Australian Critical Care
2021-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

14 Quality improvement standards to prevent inappropriate use of colonoscopy in australian healthcare services

Poster Presentations
2019-12 | Journal article
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Brett Abbenbroek

Intensive care unit organisation and its impact on patient and nurse outcomes : a cross-sectional study of two models

OPUS
2018 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Brett Abbenbroek

Towards public health surveillance of intensive care services in NSW, Australia

Public Health Research & Practice
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2204-2091
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Brett Abbenbroek

A high performance team delivering a state-wide Intensive Care Clinical Information System (ICCIS) for NSW

Australian Critical Care
2015-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

The intensive care unit volume–mortality relationship, is bigger better? An integrative literature review

Australian Critical Care
2014-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

Selection of an instrument to evaluate the organizational environment of nurses working in intensive care: an integrative review

Journal of Hospital Administration
2014-10-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1927-7008
Part of ISSN: 1927-6990
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Brett Abbenbroek

Guidelines for the Provision of Critical Care in Response to Influenza Pandemic SE TO INFLUENZA PANDEMIC July 2009

NSW Ministry of Health
2007 | Report
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Brett Abbenbroek

Is current emergency department discharge management adequate for minor head injured patients who are taking Warfarin?

Australian Emergency Nursing Journal
2000-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1328-2743
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Brett Abbenbroek

Nursing process and patient outcomes before and after a high-dependency nursing continuing education program

Australian Critical Care
1997-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

The impact of a high dependency unit continuing education program on nursing practice and patient outcomes

Australian Critical Care
1996-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

One units experience in instigating change in an intensive therapy unit

Australian Critical Care
1993-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

Open vs closed artificial airway suction systems

Australian Critical Care
1993-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1036-7314
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Brett Abbenbroek

Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Australian critical care (2)