Medicine: Recent submissions
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Indigenous Australian drinking patterns
Published 2021Background Measuring self-reported alcohol use is challenging in any population, including when episodic drinking may be common. Drinking among Indigenous Australians has been shown to vary greatly within and between ...Open AccessArticle -
A catalogue of tools and variables from crisis and routine care to support decision-making about allocation of intensive care beds and ventilator treatment during pandemics: Scoping review
Published 2021PURPOSE: This scoping review sought to identify objective factors to assist clinicians and policy-makers in making consistent, objective and ethically sound decisions about resource allocation when healthcare rationing is ...Article -
Assessment of inter-laboratory differences in SARS-CoV-2 consensus genome assemblies between public health laboratories in Australia
Published 2021Abstract Whole-genome sequencing of viral isolates is critical for informing transmission patterns and ongoing evolution of pathogens, especially during a pandemic. However, when genomes have low variability in the early ...Preprint -
Opioid agonist treatment and patient outcomes during the COVID_19 pandemic in south east Sydney, Australia
Published 2021Introduction In early 2020, many services modified their delivery of opioid treatment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to limit viral spread and maintain treatment continuity. We describe the changes to treatment ...Article -
Simulated multileaf collimator tracking for stereotactic liver radiotherapy guided by kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring: Dosimetric gain and target overdose trends
Published 2020Purpose: To investigate the potential benefit of multileaf collimator (MLC) tracking guided by kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM) during stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in the liver, and to understand trends ...Open AccessArticle