Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians with Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS
Published 2026While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ...Open AccessArticle -
Disparities in access to health and support services for people with disability in Australia: a scoping review of the structural social determinants
Published 2026Background Systemic inequities in health and social services exacerbate barriers for disadvantaged groups within the disability community, leading to poorer health outcomes and diminished quality of life. We aimed to ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoding Surgical Complexity: Measuring the Impact of Operative Difficulty on Quality Outcomes Following Hepatectomy for Liver Cancer over Two Decades
Published 2026Introduction: Operative time is commonly used as a surrogate marker for operative difficulty in liver resection, but the contribution of other intraoperative factors is less well understood. This study aimed to develop ...Open AccessArticle -
Transmission and Non-transmission of Melanoma From Deceased Solid Organ Donors to Transplant Recipients: Risks and Missed Opportunities
Published 2024Background. Biovigilance concerns are in tension with the need to increase organ donation. Cancer transmission risk from donor to recipient may be overestimated, as non-transmission events are rarely reported. We sought ...Open AccessArticle -
Cancer mortality in kidney transplant recipients: An Australian and New Zealand population-based cohort study, 1980-2013
Published 2020Cancer burden is increasing in kidney transplant recipients, but differences in mortality compared to the general population remain unclear. We sought to compare cancer mortality in paediatric and adult kidney transplant ...Open AccessArticle