Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • An appraisal of respiratory system compliance in mechanically ventilated covid-19 patients. 

      Li Bassi, Gianluigi; Suen, Jacky Y; Dalton, Heidi J; White, Nicole; Shrapnel, Sally; Fanning, Jonathon P; Liquet, Benoit; Hinton, Samuel; Vuorinen, Aapeli; Booth, Gareth; Millar, Jonathan E; Forsyth, Simon; Panigada, Mauro; Laffey, John; Brodie, Daniel; Fan, Eddy; Torres, Antoni; Chiumello, Davide; Corley, Amanda; Elhazmi, Alyaa; Hodgson, Carol; Ichiba, Shingo; Luna, Carlos; Murthy, Srinivas; Nichol, Alistair; Ng, Pauline Yeung; Ogino, Mark; Pesenti, Antonio; Trieu, Huynh Trung; Fraser, John F; COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium
      Published 2021
      Background Heterogeneous respiratory system static compliance (CRS) values and levels of hypoxemia in patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) requiring mechanical ventilation have been reported in previous ...
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    • Updated APLAR consensus statements on care for patients with rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Review] 

      Tam, Lai-Shan; Tanaka, Yoshiya; Handa, Rohini; Li, Zhanguo; Lorenzo, Jose Paulo; Louthrenoo, Worawit; Hill, Catherine; Pile, Kevin; Robinson, Philip C; Dans, Leonila F; Hsu, Li Yang; Lee, Sang-Min; Cho, Jiacai; Hasan, A T M Tanveer; Salim, Babur; Samreen, Saba; Shaharir, Syahrul Sazliyana; Wong, Priscilla; Chau, Jeffrey; Danda, Debashish; Haq, Syed Atiqul
      Published 2021
      Aim To update previous guidance of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) on the management of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) during the coronavirus disease 2019 ...
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    • Impact of disruptions and recovery for established cervical screening programs across a range of high-income country program designs, using COVID-19 as an example: A modelled analysis. 

      Smith, Megan A; Burger, Emily A; Castanon, Alejandra; de Kok, Inge M C M; Hanley, Sharon; Rebolj, Matejka; Hall, Michaela T; Jansen, Erik E L; Killen, James; O'Farrell, Xavier; Kim, Jane J; Canfell, Karen
      Published 2021
      COVID-19 has disrupted cervical screening in several countries, due to a range of policy-, health-service and participant-related factors. Using three well-established models of cervical cancer natural history adapted to ...
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    • Living Well with Kidney Disease by Patient and Care-Partner Empowerment: Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere 

      Kalantar-Zadeh, K.; Li, P.K.-T.; Tantisattamo, E.; Kumaraswami, L.; Liakopoulos, V.; Lui, S.-F.; Ulasi, I.; Andreoli, S.; Balducci, A.; Dupuis, S.; Harris, T.; Hradsky, A.; Knight, R.; Kumar, S.; Ng, M.; Poidevin, A.; Saadi, G.; Tong, A.
      Published 2021
      Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with hardships for patients and their care-partners. Empowering patients and their care-partners, including family members or friends involved in their care, may help ...
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    • Improving Linkage to Care of Hepatitis C: Clinical Validation of GeneXpert R HCV Viral Load Point-of-Care Assay in Indonesia. 

      Thedja, Meta Dewi; Wibowo, Dhita Prabasari; El-Khobar, Korri Elvanita; Ie, Susan Irawati; Turyadi; Setiawan, Lyana; Murti, Ignatia Sinta; Muljono, David Handojo
      Published 2021
      Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection large-scale diagnosis and treatment are hampered by lack of a simple, rapid, and reliable point-of-care (POC) test, which poses a challenge for the elimination of hepatitis C as a public ...
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