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1454Renal disease in Aboriginal children and young adults (ARDAC): evolution to a data linkage study
Published 2021Abstract Focus of Presentation The 'Antecedents of Renal Disease in Aboriginal Children and Young Adults' (ARDAC) Study was the first large population-based longitudinal cohort study seeking to identify the early emergence ...Article -
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 -
The 2020 special report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia’s “Black Summer”
Published 2020The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change was established in 2017, and produced its first Australian national assessment in 2018 and its first annual update in 2019. It examines indicators across five broad ...Article -
The 2021 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb
Published 2021The MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017, and produced its first national assessment in 2018, its first annual update in 2019, and its second annual update in 2020. It ...Article -
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 -
The abandonment of Australians in India: an analysis of the right of entry as a security right in the age of COVID-19
Published 2022In May 2021, when the Delta variant of SARS-CoV2 was wreaking havoc in India, the Australian Federal Government banned its citizens and residents who were there from coming back to Australia for 14 days on penalty of fines ...Article -
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 -
Accuracy of screening women at familial risk of breast cancer without a known gene mutation: Individual patient data meta-analysis.
Published 2017Women with a strong family history of breast cancer (BC) and without a known gene mutation have an increased risk of developing BC. We aimed to investigate the accuracy of screening using annual mammography with or without ...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 -
Adapting and validating diabetes simulation models across settings: Accounting for mortality differences using administrative data
Published 2013-07-01Abstract Aims. To develop age and sex-specific risk equations for predicting mortality following major complications of diabetes, using a large linked administrative dataset from Western Australia (WA) and to incorporate ...Open AccessArticle -
Adapting to Teaching During a Pandemic: Pedagogical Adjustments for the Next Semester of Teaching During COVID-19 and Future Online Learning
Published 2021COVID-19 has altered public health higher education and its impact on pedagogy will be felt long into the future. In response to social distancing measures, teaching academics implemented a number of changes to curricula. ...Article