Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "1117 Public Health and Health Services"
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16 The burden of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
Published 2019Burden of cancer is increasing worldwide, and in Australia, partly due to overdiagnosis: cancers which would never cause symptoms or harm if left undetected. We sought to estimate the current burden of overdiagnosis of ...Presentation -
23 Heart age: intuitive communication tool or gateway to overdiagnosis? A comparison of 3 countries
Published 2019Heart age calculators are increasingly popular around the world as a way to promote and communicate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment to patients/consumers. While they have intuitive appeal, the implicit assumptions ...Presentation -
27 Are we overdiagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Published 2019The objective of this study is to use a recently developed framework of questions to systematically determine if the existing literature indicates a potential for overdiagnosis and overtreatment in ADHD. We hypothesize ...Presentation -
48 Trends in stage-specific breast cancer incidence in new south wales, australia: insights from 25 years of screening mammography
Published 2018Screening mammography aims to improve breast cancer (BC) prognosis by increasing the incidence of early-stage tumours in order to decrease the incidence of late-stage cancer, but no reports have investigated these potential ...Conference paper -
5 Developing a scale to measure clinician knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practices around overdiagnosis
Published 2019Measuring clinician knowledge, understanding and attitudes to overdiagnosis are key to understanding the drivers of overdiagnosis, developing strategies to reduce overdiagnosis, and assessing the effectiveness of interventions ...Presentation -
69 Impact of full-field digital mammography versus film-screen mammography: systematic review
Published 2018Most breast screening programs worldwide have replaced screen-film mammography (SFM) with full-field digital mammography (FFDM) in expectation of technical, clinical and economic advantages. However, we are only just now ...Presentation -
81 Has the transition to digital mammography in breast cancer screening resulted in real benefits?
Published 2019Most breast screening programmes worldwide have replaced Screen-Film mammography (SFM) with Full-field Digital Mammography (FFDM). While FFDM provides significant technical and practical advantages over SFM in the provision ...Presentation -
89 Incremental benefits and harms of the 2017 american college of cardiology/american heart association high blood pressure guideline
Published 2018The recent recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) to lower the thresholds for defining hypertension follows a general pattern across medical specialties, whereby ...Conference paper -
96 Can we detect overdiagnosis early? exploring indicators of possible overdiagnosis outside cancer screening contexts
Published 2018Although the risk of overdiagnosis in cancer screening was identified almost 50 years ago, evidence of cancer overdiagnosis was slow to emerge, and has required development of new approaches and study designs. As a result, ...Conference paper -
Accuracy and reading time for six strategies using digital breast tomosynthesis in women with mammographically negative dense breasts
Published 2017The objective of this study was to compare six strategies using digital breast tomosynthesis in women with mammographically negative dense breasts. This is a substudy of the ‘ASTOUND’ trial. 163 women who underwent ...Article -
Active Kids Evaluation Report 2018-2019
Published 2021-08-30This report presents evaluation findings from the SPRINTER independent evaluation of the Active Kids program. Data are presented from the first 2 years of program delivery (2018 and 2019). Active Kids, the first universal ...Report, Research -
Active Kids Evaluation Report 2018-2019; Executive Summary
Published 2021-08-30This summary presents evaluation findings from the SPRINTER independent evaluation of the Active Kids program. Data are presented from the first 2 years of program delivery (2018 and 2019). Active Kids, the first universal ...Report, Research -
Active surveillance as a management option for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2: An online experimental study
Published 2021The objective of this study was to investigate framing of active surveillance as a management option for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)2 in women of childbearing age. We conducted a between-subjects factorial ...Open AccessArticle -
Adenotonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children: The impact of timing of surgery and post-operative outcomes
Published 2022Aim To investigate the impact of adenotonsillectomy (ADT) and adenoidectomy (AD) on child health and evaluated their post-operative complications. Methods We included all children aged <16 years undergoing ADT ...Open AccessArticle -
Adherence to prescribing restrictions for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer in Australia: A national population-based observational study (2001-2016)
Published 2018Targeted cancer therapy is often complex, involving multiple agents and chemotherapeutic partners. In Australia, prescribing restrictions are put in place to reflect existing evidence of cost-effectiveness of these medicines. ...Open AccessArticle -
Adjunct Screening With Tomosynthesis or Ultrasound in Women With Mammography-Negative Dense Breasts: Interim Report of a Prospective Comparative Trial
Published 2016Purpose Debate on adjunct screening in women with dense breasts has followed legislation requiring that women be informed about their mammographic density and related adjunct imaging. Ultrasound or tomosynthesis can detect ...Open AccessArticle -
Agreement between digital breast tomosynthesis and pathologic tumour size for staging breast cancer, and comparison with standard mammography.
Published 2019Purpose: Tomosynthesis is proposed to improve breast cancer assessment and staging. We compared tomosynthesis and mammography in estimating the size of newly-diagnosed breast cancers. Methods: All pathologically-confirmed ...Article -
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early detection of breast cancer: a scoping review to assess AI’s potential for screening practice.
Published 2019Various factors are driving interest in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for breast cancer (BC) detection, but it is unclear whether the evidence warrants large-scale use in population-based screening. We ...Article -
Artificial intelligence for breast cancer screening: Opportunity or hype?
Published 2017Interpretation of mammography for breast cancer (BC) screening can confer a mortality benefit through early BC detection, can miss a cancer that is present or fast growing, or can result in false-positives. Efforts to ...Article -
Assessing the efficacy of cancer screening
Published 2017© 2017 Jacklyn et al. Background: Population-based cancer screening has been established for several types of cancer in Australia and internationally. Screening may perform differently in practice from randomised controlled ...Open AccessArticle