Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • Sex differences in mortality among binational cohort of people with chronic kidney disease: population based data linkage study 

      De La Mata, Nicole L.; Rosales, Brenda; MacLeod, Grace; Kelly, Patrick J.; Masson, Philip; Morton, Rachael L.; Wyburn, Kate; Webster, Angela C.
      Published 2021
      Objective To evaluate sex differences in mortality among people with kidney failure compared with the general population. Design Population based cohort study using data linkage. Setting The Australian and New Zealand ...
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    • Quality of life among caregivers of people with end-stage kidney disease managed with dialysis or comprehensive conservative care 

      Shah, Karan K.; Murtagh, Fliss E.M.; McGeechan, Kevin; Crail, Susan M.; Burns, Aine; Morton, Rachael L.
      Published 2020
      Background: To measure health-related and care-related quality of life among informal caregivers of older people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), and to determine the association between caregiver quality of life and ...
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    • Identifying challenges to implementation of clinical practice guidelines for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with melanoma in Australia: protocol paper for a mixed methods study 

      Rapport, Frances; Smith, Andrea L.; Cust, Anne E.; Mann, Graham J.; Watts, Caroline G.; Gyorki, David E.; Henderson, Michael; Hong, Angela M.; Kelly, John W.; Long, Georgina V.; Mar, Victoria J.; Morton, Rachael L.; Saw, Robyn P.M.; Scolyer, Richard A.; Spillane, Andrew J.; Thompson, John F.; Braithwaite, Jeffrey
      Published 2020
      Introduction Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a diagnostic procedure developed in the 1990s. It is currently used to stage patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, provide prognostic information and guide management. ...
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    • When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist 

      Tugwell, Peter; Welch, Vivian Andrea; Karunananthan, Sathya; Maxwell, Lara J.; Akl, Elie A.; Avey, Marc T.; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Brouwers, Melissa C.; Clark, Jocalyn P.; Cook, Sophie; Cuervo, Luis Gabriel; Curran, Janet Agnes; Ghogomu, Elizabeth Tanjong; Graham, Ian G.; Grimshaw, Jeremy M.; Hutton, Brian; Loannidis, John P.A.; Jordan, Zoe; Jull, Janet Elizabeth; Kristjansson, Elizabeth; Langlois, Etienne V.; Little, Julian; Lyddiatt, Anne; Martin, Janet E.; Marušić, Ana; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Moher, David; Morton, Rachael L.; Nasser, Mona; Page, Matthew J.; Pardo Pardo, Jordi; Jennifer, Petkovic; Petticrew, Mark; Pigott, Terri; Pottie, Kevin; Rada, Gabriel; Rader, Tamara; Riddle, Alison; Rothstein, Hannah; Schüneman, Holger; Shamseer, Larissa; Shea, Beverley J.; Simeon, Rosiane; Siontis, Konstantinos C.; Smith, Maureen; Soares-Weiser, Karla; Thavorn, Kednapa; Thavorn, David Tovey; Vachon, Brigitte; Valentine, Jeffery; Villemaire, Rebecca; Walker, Peter; Weeks, Laura; Wells, George; Wilson, David B.; White, Howard
      Published 2020
      For systematic reviews of interventions, replication is defined as the reproduction of findings of previous systematic reviews looking at the same effectiveness question either by: purposefully repeating the same methods ...
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    • Including Information on Overdiagnosis in Shared Decision Making: A Review of Prostate Cancer Screening Decision Aids 

      Pathirana, Thanya; Pickles, Kristen; Riikonen, Jarno M; Tikkinen, Kari A. O.; Bell, Katy J.L.; Glasziou, Paul
      Published 2022
      Background. Overdiagnosis is an accepted harm of cancer screening, but studies of prostate cancer screening decision aids have not examined provision of information important in communicating the risk of overdiagnosis, ...
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