Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Demonstration of Classic Screening Biases, Not Additional Benefit of Annual Over Biennial Screening.
Published 2018Letter to editorArticle, Letter -
The Importance of Population-Based Estimates of Melanocytic Pathology
Published 2018Editorial piece on a novel and innovative approach to estimating the prevalence of different types of melanocytic lesions in all adults undergoing skin biopsies in a population described by Lott et al.Article, Letter -
Beyond country‐specific incidence and mortality: the global burden of melanoma
Published 2018Editorial piece. In the July 2017 issue of the BJD, Karimkhani and colleagues reported on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2015 melanoma results. The GBD uses a standardized statistical framework to analyse both ...Article, Letter -
A stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of nurse-delivered Teach-Back in a consumer telehealth service.
Published 2018Objective: To evaluate the impact of Teach-Back on communication quality in a national telephone-based telehealth service, for callers varying in health literacy. Setting: An Australian national pregnancy and parenting ...Open AccessArticle -
Patterns and trends of potentially inappropriate high-density lipoprotein cholesterol testing in Australian adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease from 2008 to 2014: analysis of linked individual patient data from the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Published 2018Objectives We examine the extent to which the adult Australian population on lipid-lowering medications receives the level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) testing recommended by national guidelines. Data ...Open AccessArticle