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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    • 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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    • Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic 

      Cameron, James; Williams, Bridget; Ragonnet, Romain; Marais, Ben; Trauer, James; Savulescu, Julian
      Published 2021
      Liberty-restricting measures have been implemented for centuries to limit the spread of infectious diseases. This article considers if and when it may be ethically acceptable to impose selective liberty-restricting measures ...
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    • Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivery around the World 

      de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela Lima; Xu, Zhiming; Liu, Xia; Mola, Ana; Gallagher, Robyn; Babu, Abraham Samuel; Yeung, Colin; Marzolini, Susan; Buckley, John; Oh, Paul; Contractor, Aashish; Grace, Sherry L.
      Published 2021
      Background: We investigated impacts of COVID-19 on cardiac rehabilitation (CR) delivery around the globe, including virtual delivery, as well as effects on providers and patients.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a ...
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    • Early School Years follow up of the Asking Questions in Alcohol Longitudinal Study in Melbourne, Australia (AQUA at 6): Cohort profile 

      Muggli, Evelyne; Halliday, Jane; Elliott, Elizabeth; Penington, Anthony; Thompson, Deanne K; Spittle, Alicia; Della A. Forster; Lewis, Sharon; Hearps, Stephen; Anderson, Peter J
      Published 2021
      Purpose The Asking Questions about Alcohol in Pregnancy (AQUA) study, established in 2011, is a pre-birth cohort of 1570 mother and child pairs designed to assess the effects of low to moderate prenatal alcohol exposure ...
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