Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Second opinions for spinal surgery: a scoping review
Published 2022BACKGROUND: Second opinions have the goal of clarifying uncertainties around diagnosis or management, particularly when healthcare decisions are complex, unpleasant, and carry considerable risks. Second opinions might be ...Article -
Traumatic knee injury healthcare pathways and outcomes: the Australian Knee Injury Inception Cohort Study (KIICS) protocol
Published 2025Decision-making for the optimal management of traumatic knee injuries can be challenging. Clinical trials reveal only small differences between surgical and non-surgical approaches, while patient and clinician biases, as ...Article -
General practitioners' decision-making process to prescribe pain medicines for low back pain: a qualitative study
Published 2023BACKGROUND: Pain medicines are widely prescribed by general practitioners (GPs) when managing people with low back pain (LBP), but little is known about what drives decisions to prescribe these medicines. OBJECTIVES: The ...Article -
Diagnostic labels and advice for rotator cuff disease influence perceived need for shoulder surgery: an online randomised experiment
Published 2022QUESTION: What are the effects of diagnostic labels and advice, and interactions between labels and advice, on perceived need for shoulder surgery for rotator cuff disease? DESIGN: 2×2 factorial online randomised experiment. ...Article -
Perceptions of best practice, pain science and structure-focused education for rotator cuff-related shoulder pain: a content analysis of qualitative data from a randomised experiment
Published 2026OBJECTIVES: To explore how people perceive different forms of education for rotator cuff-related shoulder pain in terms of words or feelings evoked by the education and treatments they feel are needed. SETTING: We performed ...Article