Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on surgical services: early experiences at a nominated COVID‐19 centre
Published 2020The evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic represents an unprecedented and largely unanticipated challenge to the delivery of surgical care in Australia and New Zealand. The first confirmed COVID‐19 case in ...Article -
Disparities in COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours by health literacy
Published 2020Objectives: To explore the variation in understanding, attitudes and uptake of COVID-19 health advice during the 2020 pandemic lockdown by health literacy. Study design: National cross sectional community survey. Setting: ...Preprint -
How do healthcare workers in diagnostic imaging minimise risks but maximise performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic?
Published 2020The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2), the causative agent of COVID‐19, is a lipid‐layer enveloped RNA virus, capable of infecting receptor‐expressing epithelial cells. The angiotensin‐converting ...Article -
Monitoring for post-injection delirium/sedation syndrome with long-acting olanzapine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published 2020We included all 74,960 olanzapine LAI dispensings listed in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) database from the introduction of olanzapine LAI in January 2010 until the end of January 2020. Adverse event reports ...Article -
COVID‐19: Lessons to be learnt from a once‐in‐a‐century global pandemic
Published 2020The year 2020 will mark a once‐in‐a‐century global event: the outbreak and pandemic of COVID‐19. On the 31 December 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia‐like cases of a novel coronavirus ...Article