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Race and ethnicity in the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium: demographics, treatments, and outcomes, an international observational registry study

Improving access to healthcare for ethnic minorities is a public health priority in many countries, yet little is known about how to incorporate information on race, ethnicity, and related social determinants ...

Matthew J. Griffee, David A. Thomson… in International Journal for Equity in Health (2023)

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Cost-effectiveness of left atrial appendage closure for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review appraising the methodological quality

The increasing global prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) has led to a growing demand for stroke prevention strategies, resulting in higher healthcare costs. High-quality economic evaluations of stroke prev...

Sumudu A. Hewage, Rini Noviyani, David Brain… in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (2023)

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A discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences for a liver screening programme in Queensland, Australia: a mixed methods study to select attributes and levels

In Australia, the overall prevalence of liver disease is increasing. Maximising uptake of community screening programmes by understanding patient preferences is integral to develo** consumer-centred care mod...

Michelle J Allen, Rachael Doran, David Brain… in BMC Health Services Research (2023)

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Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models

Clinical prediction models are widely used in health and medical research. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a frequently used estimate to describe the discriminatory ability ...

Nicole White, Rex Parsons, Gary Collins, Adrian Barnett in BMC Medicine (2023)

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Reducing waste in collection of quality-of-life data through better reporting: a case study

This study describes the reporting of the preference-based health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instrument, the EQ-5D, and proposes strategies to improve reporting and reduce research waste. The EQ-5D is a v...

Victoria McCreanor, Elaine Lum, Nicholas Graves, Nan Luo… in Quality of Life Research (2022)

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Translation of the geriatric emergency department intervention into other emergency departments: a post implementation evaluation of outcomes for older adults

Increasing numbers of older adults with complex health deficits presenting to emergency departments has prompted the development of innovative models of care. One such model designed to reduce poor outcomes as...

Elizabeth Marsden, Alison Craswell, Andrea Taylor, Adrian Barnett… in BMC Geriatrics (2022)

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Is There Broad-Based Support in High-Income Countries for COVID-19 Vaccine Donation? Evidence from Seven Countries

Many high-income countries (HICs) have now vaccinated a substantial proportion of their population against COVID-19. Many low-income countries (LICs) may need to wait until at least 2022 before even the most v...

Laurence S. J. Roope, Adrian Barnett… in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (2022)

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Development and validation of a risk index to predict kidney graft survival: the kidney transplant risk index

Kidney graft failure risk prediction models assist evidence-based medical decision-making in clinical practice. Our objective was to develop and validate statistical and machine learning predictive models to p...

Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Helen Healy… in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2021)

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Time-to-event analysis in economic evaluations: a comparison of modelling methods to assess the cost-effectiveness of transplanting a marginal quality kidney

Economic-evaluations using decision analytic models such as Markov-models (MM), and discrete-event-simulations (DES) are high value adds in allocating resources. The choice of modelling method is critical beca...

Sameera Senanayake, Nicholas Graves, Helen Healy… in Health Economics Review (2021)

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How Should a Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccine be Allocated? Health Economists Need to be Ready to Take the Baton

Laurence S. J. Roope, John Buckell, Frauke Becker, Paolo Candio… in PharmacoEconomics - Open (2020)

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An implementation science approach for develo** and implementing a dietitian-led model of care for gestational diabetes: a pre-post study

There is strong evidence that women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) who receive a minimum of three appointments with a dietitian may require medication less often. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

Nina MELONCELLI, Adrian BARNETT, Susan de JERSEY in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2020)

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Deceased donor kidney allocation: an economic evaluation of contemporary longevity matching practices

Matching survival of a donor kidney with that of the recipient (longevity matching), is used in some kidney allocation systems to maximize graft-life years. It is not part of the allocation algorithm for Austr...

Sameera Senanayake, Nicholas Graves, Helen Healy… in BMC Health Services Research (2020)

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Group Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Forward to the Past?

Koen B. Pouwels, Laurence S. J. Roope, Adrian Barnett… in PharmacoEconomics - Open (2020)

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Protocol for a randomised trial testing a community fibrosis assessment service for patients with suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: LOCal assessment and triage evaluation of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (LOCATE-NAFLD)

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common type of chronic liver disease in Australia and its recent increase mirrors the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemics. Currently, many patients who p...

David Brain, James O’Beirne, Ingrid J. Hickman… in BMC Health Services Research (2020)

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Registered Reports: Time to Radically Rethink Peer Review in Health Economics

Philip Clarke, John Buckell, Adrian Barnett in PharmacoEconomics - Open (2020)

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The Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention model of care: a pragmatic trial

To evaluate a Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) model of service delivery for adults aged 70 years and older.

Marianne Wallis, Elizabeth Marsden, Andrea Taylor, Alison Craswell… in BMC Geriatrics (2018)

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The effects of normovolemic anemia and blood transfusion on cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury

Cerebral regional microcirculation is altered following severe head injury. In addition to tissue disruption, partial pressure of tissue oxygenation is impaired due to an increase in the oxygen tissue gradient...

Judith Bellapart, Kylie Cuthbertson, Kimble Dunster… in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (2018)

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A research pathway for the study of the delivery and disposition of nebulised antibiotics: an incremental approach from in vitro to large animal models

Nebulised antibiotics are frequently used for the prevention or treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Many factors may influence pulmonary drug concentrations with inaccurate dosing schedules potential...

Jayesh A. Dhanani, Jeremy Cohen, Suzanne L. Parker… in Intensive Care Medicine Experimental (2018)

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A structure, process and outcome evaluation of the Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention model of care: a study protocol

Emergency departments are chaotic environments in which complex, frail older persons living in the community and residential aged care facilities are sometimes subjected to prolonged emergency department lengt...

Elizabeth Marsden, Andrea Taylor, Marianne Wallis, Alison Craswell… in BMC Geriatrics (2017)