Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by publication year
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Very good punter-speak. How journalists frame the news on public health
Published 1995-01-01This is a monograph commissioned by NSW Health in 1995 to inform the "Smog Summit". It reports on interviews with 9 Sydney journalists. Each interview focused on five often inter-related issues: 1. News gathering routines ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Defining chronic conditions for primary care with ICPC-2
Published 2004Background: With the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions, there is need for a standardized definition of chronicity for use in research, to evaluate the population prevalence and general practice management of ...Open AccessArticle -
Use of randomised trials to decide when to monitor response to new treatment.
Published 2008Is monitoring initial response to treatment always helpful in clinical management of patients? Bell and colleagues have developed a framework for deciding whether surrogate outcomes should be used to monitor initial response ...Open AccessArticle -
Mixed models showed no need for initial response monitoring after starting antihypertensive therapy.
Published 2009The objective of this study was to demonstrate how mixed models may be used to estimate treatment effects, and inform decisions on the need for monitoring initial response. Mixed models were used to analyze data from ...Open AccessArticle -
Value of routine monitoring of bone mineral density after starting bisphosphonate treatment: secondary analysis of trial data.
Published 2009To assess the value of monitoring response to bisphosphonate treatment by means of measuring bone mineral density. In this paper we investigate the effects of alendronate on bone density at the individual level. We compare ...Open AccessArticle -
Technical aspects of breast MRI—do they affect outcomes?
Published 2009In a systematic review of breast MRI for assessing ipsilateral breast cancer to detect additional lesions, technical details were extracted from publications to assess their effect on diagnostic performance. Where technical ...Article -
Should response rules be used to decide continued subsidy of very expensive drugs? A checklist for decision makers
Published 2010Response rules are increasingly used by the Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme (PBS) in Australia and the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the U.K. to limit continued subsidy of very expensive drugs to ...Article -
Monitoring Adherence to Medication by Measuring Change in Blood Pressure.
Published 2010After starting antihypertensives, blood pressure is monitored for several reasons, including assessment of adherence. We aimed to estimate the accuracy of blood pressure monitoring for detecting early nonadherence. We ...Open AccessArticle -
Challenges in assessing the characteristics of influential public health research.
Published 2010-01-01The development of frameworks to effectively measure both the scientific and social impact of research is a topic of international debate. This paper examines how Australian public health researchers in six fields (alcohol, ...Open AccessArticle -
From ‘our world’ to the ‘real world’: exploring the behaviour of policy-influential Australian public health researchers
Published 2010-01-01Research and researchers influence the genesis and development of public health policy in limited but essential ways. Surveys and interviews with 36 peer-nominated “highly influential” Australian public health researchers ...Open AccessArticle -
‘Disease, Disaster and Despair’? The Presentation of Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries on Australian Television
Published 2010-11-01In high-income nations mainstream television news remains an important source of information about both general health issues and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, research on news coverage of health in ...Open AccessArticle -
Monitoring adherence to drug treatment by using change in cholesterol concentration: secondary analysis of trial data.
Published 2011A randomised controlled trial which aimed to estimate the accuracy of monitoring cholesterol concentration for detecting non-adherence to lipid lowering treatment. Design: Secondary analysis of data on cholesterol ...Article -
Optimizing the frequency of follow-up visits for patients treated for localized primary cutaneous melanoma
Published 2011To develop more evidence-based guidelines for the frequency of patient follow-up after treatment of localized (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] stage I or II) melanoma. Methods: We used data from Melanoma Institute ...Open AccessArticle -
Reviewer refusal rates for 300,866 requested reviews in 20 BMJ Group journals
Published 2011-01-01Data were extracted from the BenchPress editorial management system for 20 journals which each had data for the years 2002-2010.We examined whether there were differences among journals on reviewer refusal rates. Across ...Open AccessArticle -
Target the fence-sitters
Published 2011-05-26Past waves of vaccine rejection in industrialized nations have a lot to teach us about preventing future ones.Open AccessArticle -
Appendix to "The influence of graphic display format on the interpretations of quantitative risk information among adults with lower education and literacy"
Published 2011-06-02Open AccessOther -
Media Miracles: The Separation of Conjoined Twins, and Reflections on Minimal Television News Coverage of Health from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Published 2011-06-28Australian television news and current affairs remain an important source of information for domestic audiences about both health and low- and middle-income countries. In November 2009, the successful surgical separation ...Open AccessArticle -
A Multi Criteria Decision Analytic (MCDA) approach to combining evidence and patient preferences for cancer prevention and treatment: an application to prostate cancer screening
Published 2011-08-23Open AccessPresentation -
Patients who choose not to dialyze
Published 2011-09-08Introduction and aims: Some patients with Stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) choose supportive non-dialytic management or conservative care in preference to dialysis. The aims of this study were to estimate the national ...Open AccessConference poster -
Environmental tobacco smoke in outdoor areas: a rapid review of the research literature.
Published 2011-11-25Restrictions on smoking outdoors have been introduced for reasons of public amenity and to promote litter reduction. This review considers the evidence about whether outdoor secondhand smoke (SHS) might also pose health ...Open AccessReport, Technical