Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • Guidelines for Reporting Trial Protocols and Completed Trials Modified Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Extenuating Circumstances 

      Orkin, Aaron M.; Gill, Peter J.; Ghersi, Davina; Campbell, Lisa; Sugarman, Jeremy; Emsley, Richard; Steg, Philippe Gabriel; Weijer, Charles; Simes, John; Rombey, Tanja; Williams, Hywel C.; Wittes, Janet; Moher, David; Richards, Dawn P.; Kasamon, Yvette; Getz, Kenneth; Hopewell, Sally; Dickersin, Kay; Wu, Taixiang; Ayala, Ana Patricia; Schulz, Kenneth F.; Calleja, Sabine; Boutron, Isabelle; Ross, Joseph S.; Golub, Robert M.; Khan, Karim M.; Mulrow, Cindy; Siegfried, Nandi; Heber, Joerg; Lee, Naomi; Kearney, Pamela Reed; Wanyenze, Rhoda K.; Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn; Williams, Rebecca; Bhandari, Nita; Jüni, Peter; Chan, An-Wen; Orkin, Aaron M.; Gill, Peter J.; Ghersi, Davina; Campbell, Lisa; Sugarman, Jeremy; Emsley, Richard; Steg, Philippe Gabriel; Weijer, Charles; Simes, John; Rombey, Tanja; Williams, Hywel C.; Wittes, Janet; Moher, David; Richards, Dawn P.; Kasamon, Yvette; Getz, Kenneth; Hopewell, Sally; Dickersin, Kay; Wu, Taixiang; Ayala, Ana Patricia; Schulz, Kenneth F.; Calleja, Sabine; Boutron, Isabelle; Ross, Joseph S.; Golub, Robert M.; Khan, Karim M.; Mulrow, Cindy; Siegfried, Nandi; Heber, Joerg; Lee, Naomi; Kearney, Pamela Reed; Wanyenze, Rhoda K.; Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn; Williams, Rebecca; Bhandari, Nita; Jüni, Peter; Chan, An-Wen; Kiermer, Veronique; Corrigan-Curay, Jacqueline; Concato, John
      Published 2021
      Importance: Extenuating circumstances can trigger unplanned changes to randomized trials and introduce methodological, ethical, feasibility, and analytical challenges that can potentially compromise the validity of findings. ...
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    • Disordered eating & body image of current and former athletes in a pandemic; a convergent mixed methods study - What can we learn from COVID-19 to support athletes through transitions? 

      Buckley, Georgina Louise; Hall, Linden Elizabeth; Lassemillante, Annie-Claude M.; Belski, Regina
      Published 2021
      BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has seen worsened mental health as a result of lockdowns, isolation and changes to sociocultural functioning. The postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is representative of global cancellations ...
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    • Estimating age-specific COVID-19 fatality risk and time to death by comparing population diagnosis and death patterns: Australian data 

      Marschner, Ian C.
      Published 2021
      BackgroundMortality is a key component of the natural history of COVID-19 infection. Surveillance data on COVID-19 deaths and case diagnoses are widely available in the public domain, but they are not used to model time ...
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    • The effect of COVID19 pandemic restrictions on an urban rodent population 

      Bedoya-Prez, Miguel A.; Ward, Michael P.; Loomes, Max; McGregor, Iain S.; Crowther, Mathew S.
      Published 2021
      Shortly after the enactment of restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, various local government and public health authorities around the world reported an increased sighting of rats. Such reports have yet ...
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    • Alcohol use among young Australian adults in May–June 2020 during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study 

      Clare, Philip J.; Aiken, Alexandra; Yuen, See; Upton, Emily; Kypri, Kypros; Degenhardt, Louisa; Bruno, Raimondo; McCambridge, Jim; McBride, Nyanda; Hutchinson, Delyse; Slade, Tim; Mattick, Richard; Peacock, Amy
      Published 2021
      AIMS: To estimate change in young people's alcohol consumption during COVID-19 restrictions in Australia in early-mid 2020, and test whether those changes were consistent by gender and level of consumption prior to the ...
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