Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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COVID-19: how many Australians might have died if we’d had an outbreak like that in England and Wales?
Published 2020Using all-cause mortality data in England and Wales over the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in March and April, we directly estimated the number of excess deaths that may have occurred if the outbreak in Australia had been ...Open AccessArticle -
Trends in knee magnetic resonance imaging, arthroscopies and joint replacements in older Australians: still too much low‐value care?
Published 2020The objective of the study is to describe temporal trends and regional variations in the use of knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), knee arthroscopy and total knee replacement surgery in Australians older than ...Article -
Future directions in cardiovascular disease risk prediction.
Published 2020Although the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) guidelines were published in 2012, many individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are not prescribed preventive medication or have CVD risk ...Article -
Why We Might Not Need to Stress About Ruling Out Inducible Myocardial Ischemia.
Published 2020Editorial on the high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) tests.Article -
Why clinicians overtest: development of a thematic framework.
Published 2020Medical tests provide important information to guide clinical management. Overtesting, however, may cause harm to patients and the healthcare system, including through misdiagnosis, false positives, false negatives and ...Open AccessArticle