Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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A methods review of posttrial follow-up studies of cardiovascular prevention finds potential biases in estimating legacy effects
Published 2020The objective of the study was to assess the methods used, and potential for bias, in posttrial studies of cardiovascular disease (CVD) where legacy effects may be estimated. We undertook a methods review of posttrial ...Open AccessArticle -
A survey of Australian public attitudes towards funding of high cost cancer medicines
Published 2021Background In the past decade many novel, and in some cases transformative, cancer medicines have entered the market. Their prices and the amount spent on them by governments have increased rapidly, bringing to the forefront ...Open AccessArticle -
Mammography screening for breast cancer-the UK Age trial
Published 2020Correspondence relating to the analyses of the UK Age trial on the effect on breast cancer mortality of mammographic screening from age 40 years.Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Testing decisions in the Pandemic: How do we use imperfect tests for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) to make clinical decisions
Published 2020This is the second article of a series on how to use diagnostic test accuracy evidence. In this article, we explain how diagnostic test accuracy estimates may be applied in clinical practice, using the example of coronavirus ...Open AccessArticle -
COVID-19: how many Australians might have died if we’d had an outbreak like that in England and Wales?
Published 2020Using all-cause mortality data in England and Wales over the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in March and April, we directly estimated the number of excess deaths that may have occurred if the outbreak in Australia had been ...Open AccessArticle