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    Implementing chlamydia screening: what do women think? A systematic review of the literature

    Chlamydia trachomatis is a common sexually transmitted infection that can have serious consequences. It is universally agreed that screening for chlamydia infection should be offered to sexually active young wom...

    Natasha L Pavlin, Jane M Gunn, Rhian Parker, Christopher K Fairley in BMC Public Health (2006)

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    What needs to change to increase chlamydia screening in general practice in Australia? The views of general practitioners

    Australia is considering implementing a chlamydia screening program in general practice. The views of general practitioners (GPs) are necessary to inform the design of the program. This paper aimed to investig...

    Jane S Hocking, Rhian M Parker, Natasha Pavlin, Christopher K Fairley in BMC Public Health (2008)

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    Women's evaluation of abuse and violence care in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial (weave)

    Intimate partner abuse (IPA) is a major public health problem with serious implications for the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of women, particularly women of child-bearing age. It is a common, hidden pro...

    Kelsey L Hegarty, Jane M Gunn, Lorna J O'Doherty, Angela Taft in BMC Public Health (2010)

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    Embedding effective depression care: using theory for primary care organisational and systems change

    Depression and related disorders represent a significant part of general practitioners (GPs) daily work. Implementing the evidence about what works for depression care into routine practice presents a challeng...

    Jane M Gunn, Victoria J Palmer, Christopher F Dowrick in Implementation Science (2010)

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    Maximising retention in a longitudinal study of genital Chlamydia trachomatis among young women in Australia

    Cohort studies are an important study design however they are difficult to implement, often suffer from poor retention, low participation and bias. The aims of this paper are to describe the methods used to re...

    Jennifer Walker, Christopher K Fairley, Eve Urban, Marcus Y Chen in BMC Public Health (2011)

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    Prescribing Data in General Practice Demonstration (PDGPD) project - a cluster randomised controlled trial of a quality improvement intervention to achieve better prescribing for chronic heart failure and hypertension

    Research literature consistently documents that scientifically based therapeutic recommendations are not always followed in the hospital or in the primary care setting. Currently, there is evidence that some g...

    Margaret Williamson, Magnolia Cardona-Morrell in BMC Health Services Research (2012)

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    Evaluation of the Social Participation Questionnaire in adult patients with depressive symptoms using Rasch analysis

    The aim of this study was to explore the psychometric properties of the 22-item Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ).

    Konstancja Densley, Sandra Davidson, Jane M. Gunn in Quality of Life Research (2013)

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    Moving from “let’s fix them” to “actually listen”: the development of a primary care intervention for mental-physical multimorbidity

    Effective person-centred interventions are needed to support people living with mental-physical multimorbidity to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes. Depression is identified as the most common menta...

    Kylie J. McKenzie, Susan L. Fletcher, David Pierce in BMC Health Services Research (2021)