Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions

    • Updated APLAR consensus statements on care for patients with rheumatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Review] 

      Tam, Lai-Shan; Tanaka, Yoshiya; Handa, Rohini; Li, Zhanguo; Lorenzo, Jose Paulo; Louthrenoo, Worawit; Hill, Catherine; Pile, Kevin; Robinson, Philip C; Dans, Leonila F; Hsu, Li Yang; Lee, Sang-Min; Cho, Jiacai; Hasan, A T M Tanveer; Salim, Babur; Samreen, Saba; Shaharir, Syahrul Sazliyana; Wong, Priscilla; Chau, Jeffrey; Danda, Debashish; Haq, Syed Atiqul
      Published 2021
      Aim To update previous guidance of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) on the management of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) during the coronavirus disease 2019 ...
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    • Optimal governance and implementation of vaccination programmes to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. 

      Piraveenan, Mahendra; Sawleshwarkar, Shailendra; Walsh, Michael; Zablotska, Iryna; Bhattacharyya, Samit; Farooqui, Habib Hassan; Bhatnagar, Tarun; Karan, Anup; Murhekar, Manoj; Zodpey, Sanjay; Rao, K S Mallikarjuna; Pattison, Philippa; Zomaya, Albert; Perc, Matjaz
      Published 2021
      Since the recent introduction of several viable vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, vaccination uptake has become the key factor that will determine our success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that game theory and social ...
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    • Use of genomics to track coronavirus disease outbreaks, New Zealand 

      Geoghegan, J.L.; Douglas, J.; Ren, X.; Storey, M.; Hadfield, J.; Silander, O.K.; Freed, N.E.; Jelley, L.; Jefferies, S.; Sherwood, J.; Paine, S.; Huang, S.; Sporle, A.; Baker, M.G.; Murdoch, D.R.; Drummond, A.J.; Welch, D.; Simpson, C.R.; French, N.; Holmes, E.C.; de Ligt, J.
      Published 2021
      Real-time genomic sequencing has played a major role in tracking the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), contributing greatly to disease mitigation strategies. In August 2020, ...
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    • Proposed guidance on cost-avoidance studies in pharmacy practice 

      Patanwala, Asad E; Narayan, Sujita W; Haas, Curtis E; Abraham, Ivo; Sanders, Arthur; Erstad, Brian L
      Published 2021
      Purpose: Cost-avoidance studies of pharmacist interventions are common and often the first type of study conducted by investigators to quantify the economic impact of clinical pharmacy services. The purpose of this primer ...
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    • Improving Linkage to Care of Hepatitis C: Clinical Validation of GeneXpert R HCV Viral Load Point-of-Care Assay in Indonesia. 

      Thedja, Meta Dewi; Wibowo, Dhita Prabasari; El-Khobar, Korri Elvanita; Ie, Susan Irawati; Turyadi; Setiawan, Lyana; Murti, Ignatia Sinta; Muljono, David Handojo
      Published 2021
      Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection large-scale diagnosis and treatment are hampered by lack of a simple, rapid, and reliable point-of-care (POC) test, which poses a challenge for the elimination of hepatitis C as a public ...
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