Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Prospective Meta-Analyses and Cochrane's role in embracing next generation methodologies.
Published 2020Cochrane systematic reviews and meta-analyses are regarded as the ‘gold standard’ for high-quality information and are widely used to inform healthcare policy and practice. The nature of how conventional systematic reviews ...Open AccessArticle -
Exploring Health Professionals' Perceptions and Clinical Manifestations of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy-Related Oral and Oropharyngeal Mucositis
Published 2021-03-16Background: Oral and oropharyngeal mucositis (OM) refers to inflammation caused by certain chemotherapy (CT) agents and radiation therapy (RT) to mucosal structures. CT-induced OM is usually a manifestation of widespread ...Open AccessThesis -
Sydney Health Literacy Lab (SHLL) Health Literacy Editor
Published 2021-03-11An online real-time editor to improve the health-literate design of written materials that assesses text for health literacy principles (e.g. readability, complex language (use of uncommon words, medical or health jargon, ...Open AccessSoftware -
The carbon footprint of pathology testing.
Published 2020The objective of this study was to estimate the carbon footprint of five common hospital pathology tests: full blood examination; urea and electrolyte levels; coagulation profile; C‐reactive protein concentration; and ...Article -
Should heart age calculators be used alongside absolute cardiovascular disease risk assessment?
Published 2018National estimates of ‘heart age’ by government health organisations in the US, UK and China show most people have an older heart age than current age. While most heart age calculators are promoted as a communication tool ...Open AccessArticle