Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions

    • Sex differences in mortality among binational cohort of people with chronic kidney disease: population based data linkage study 

      De La Mata, Nicole L.; Rosales, Brenda; MacLeod, Grace; Kelly, Patrick J.; Masson, Philip; Morton, Rachael L.; Wyburn, Kate; Webster, Angela C.
      Published 2021
      Objective To evaluate sex differences in mortality among people with kidney failure compared with the general population. Design Population based cohort study using data linkage. Setting The Australian and New Zealand ...
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    • Quality of life among caregivers of people with end-stage kidney disease managed with dialysis or comprehensive conservative care 

      Shah, Karan K.; Murtagh, Fliss E.M.; McGeechan, Kevin; Crail, Susan M.; Burns, Aine; Morton, Rachael L.
      Published 2020
      Background: To measure health-related and care-related quality of life among informal caregivers of older people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), and to determine the association between caregiver quality of life and ...
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    • Identifying challenges to implementation of clinical practice guidelines for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with melanoma in Australia: protocol paper for a mixed methods study 

      Rapport, Frances; Smith, Andrea L.; Cust, Anne E.; Mann, Graham J.; Watts, Caroline G.; Gyorki, David E.; Henderson, Michael; Hong, Angela M.; Kelly, John W.; Long, Georgina V.; Mar, Victoria J.; Morton, Rachael L.; Saw, Robyn P.M.; Scolyer, Richard A.; Spillane, Andrew J.; Thompson, John F.; Braithwaite, Jeffrey
      Published 2020
      Introduction Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a diagnostic procedure developed in the 1990s. It is currently used to stage patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, provide prognostic information and guide management. ...
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    • When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist 

      Tugwell, Peter; Welch, Vivian Andrea; Karunananthan, Sathya; Maxwell, Lara J.; Akl, Elie A.; Avey, Marc T.; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Brouwers, Melissa C.; Clark, Jocalyn P.; Cook, Sophie; Cuervo, Luis Gabriel; Curran, Janet Agnes; Ghogomu, Elizabeth Tanjong; Graham, Ian G.; Grimshaw, Jeremy M.; Hutton, Brian; Loannidis, John P.A.; Jordan, Zoe; Jull, Janet Elizabeth; Kristjansson, Elizabeth; Langlois, Etienne V.; Little, Julian; Lyddiatt, Anne; Martin, Janet E.; Marušić, Ana; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Moher, David; Morton, Rachael L.; Nasser, Mona; Page, Matthew J.; Pardo Pardo, Jordi; Jennifer, Petkovic; Petticrew, Mark; Pigott, Terri; Pottie, Kevin; Rada, Gabriel; Rader, Tamara; Riddle, Alison; Rothstein, Hannah; Schüneman, Holger; Shamseer, Larissa; Shea, Beverley J.; Simeon, Rosiane; Siontis, Konstantinos C.; Smith, Maureen; Soares-Weiser, Karla; Thavorn, Kednapa; Thavorn, David Tovey; Vachon, Brigitte; Valentine, Jeffery; Villemaire, Rebecca; Walker, Peter; Weeks, Laura; Wells, George; Wilson, David B.; White, Howard
      Published 2020
      For systematic reviews of interventions, replication is defined as the reproduction of findings of previous systematic reviews looking at the same effectiveness question either by: purposefully repeating the same methods ...
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    • Cost-effectiveness analysis of PET/CT surveillance imaging to detect systemic recurrence in resected stage III melanoma: study protocol 

      Dieng, Mbathio; Khanna, Nikita; Nguyen, Mai Thi Hoang; Turner, Robin; Lord, Sarah J.; Menzies, Alexander M.; Allen, Jay; Saw, Robyn; Nieweg, Omgo E.; Thompson, John; Morton, Rachael L.
      Published 2020
      Introduction In the new era of effective systemic therapies for advanced melanoma, early detection of lower volume recurrent disease using surveillance imaging can improve survival. However, intensive imaging follow-up ...
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