Australians missing out on 'major gap' between innovation and patient care

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Promising health tools that seek to predict a person's risk of serious health problems before they happen are rarely being used in everyday health care, according to new Curtin University research. The review, published in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, found Australia has developed a growing number of tools that can identify people at risk of conditions such as heart disease, falls, frailty and diabetes complications, but very few are being routinely used by health services.