Submissions from 2016
A middle-aged man with cellulitis, R Sullivan and G Fulde
Clinical audit project in undergraduate medical education curriculum: An assessment validation study, E Tor, C Steketee, and D Mak
An international randomised controlled trial to compare TARGeted Intraoperative radioTherapy (TARGIT) with conventional postoperative radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for women with early-stage breast cancer (the TARGIT-A trial), J Vaidya, F Wenz, M Bulsara, J Tobias, D Joseph, C Saunders, C Brew-Graves, I Potyka, S Morris, H Vaidya, N Williams, and M Baum
Changing the antibiotic prescribing of general practice registrars: The ChAP study protocol for a prospective controlled study of a multimodal educational intervention, Mieke L. van Driel, Simon Morgan, Amanda Tapley, Lawrie McArthur, Patrick McElduff, Lucy Yardley, Anthea Dallas, Laura Deckx, Katie Mulquiney, Joshua S. Davis, Andrew Davey, Kim Henderson, Paul Little, and Parker J. Magin
Predicting low-risk prostate cancer from transperineal saturation biopsies, P van Leeuwen, A Siriwardana, M Roobol, F Ting, D Nieboer, J Thompson, Warick Delprado, A Haynes, P Brenner, and P Stricker
Dental bacterial DNA are present in the amniotic cavity of healthy pregnant women at term, S Vytla, George Mendz, and J Quinlivan
Engaging Australian Aboriginal narratives to challenge attitudes and create empathy in health care: A methodological perspective, Toni Wain, Moira Sim, Dawn Bessarab, Donna Mak, Colleen Hayward, and Cobie Rudd
Development of a video-based education and process change intervention to improve advance cardiopulmonary resuscitation decision-making, Nicholas Waldron, Clare V. Johnson, P Saul, Waldron Heidi, Jeffrey C. Chong, Anne-Marie Hill, and Barbara Hayes
Effect of medical student preference on rural clinical school experience and rural career intentions, L Walters, A Seal, J McGirr, R Stewart, D DeWitt, and D Playford
Zoonotic Transmission of Waterborne Disease: A Mathematical Model, Edward K. Waters
A patient preference study that evaluated fluticasone furoate and mometasone furoate nasal sprays for allergic rhinitis, A Yanez, A Dimitroff, P Bremner, C Rhee, G Luscombe, B Prillaman, and N Johnson
The disability rate of 5-year post-stroke and its correlation factors: A national survey in China, Y Yang, Y-Z Shi, N Zhang, S Wang, G Ungvari, C Ng, Y-L Wang, X-Q Zhao, Y-J Wang, C-X Wang, and Y-T Xiang
Electroconvulsive therapy added to non-clozapine antipsychotic medication for treatment resistant schizophrenia: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, W Zheng, X Cao, G Ungvari, Y Xiang, T Guo, Z Liu, Y Wang, B Forester, S Seiner, and Y Xiang
Huperzine A for treatment of cognitive impairment in major depressive disorder: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials, Wei Zheng, Ying-Qiang Xiang, Gabor S. Ungvari, Helen Chiu, Chee H. Ng, Ying Wang, and Yu-Tao Xiang
Effectiveness of a service learning model with Allied Health Assistant students in aged care, D Zulch, R Saunders, J Peters, and J Quinlivan
Submissions from 2015
The impact of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) in community palliative care using a stepped wedge cluster trial, Samar Aoun, Gunn Grande, Denise Howting, Kathleen Deas, Chris Toye, Lakkhina Troeung, Kelli Stajduhar, and Gail Ewing
Bioabsorbable versus titanium screws in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using hamstring autograft: a prospective, blinded, randomized controlled trial with 5-year follow-up, Yuval Arama, Lucy J. Salmon, Kesavan Sri-Ram, James Linklater, Justin P. Roe, and Leo Pinczewski
Abdominal compliance: A bench-to-bedside review, Annika R. Blaser, Martin Bjorck, Bart De Keulenaer, and Adrian Regli
The Telehealth Skills, Training, and Implementation Project: An evaluation protocol, Andrew Bonney, Patricia Knight-Billing, Judy Mullan, Michelle Moscova, Stephen Barnett, Don Iverson, Daniel Saffioti, Elisabeth Eastland, Michelle Guppy, Kathryn Weston, Ian Wilson, Judith Nicky Hudson, Dimity Pond, Gerard Gill, and Charlotte Hespe
Challenges in the care of familial hypercholesterolemia: a community care perspective, Tom Brett, Gerald F. Watts, Diane Arnold-Reed, Damon Bell, Jacquie Garton-Smith, Alistair W. Vickery, Jacqueline D. Ryan, and Jing Pang
Familial hypercholesterolaemia: challenges in primary care, Tom Brett, Gerald F. Watts, Jacquie Garton-Smith, Damon A. Bell, Alistair W. Vickery, Jing Pang, and Diane Arnold-Reed
Building social capital with interprofessional student teams in rural settings: A service-learning model, Pippa L. Craig, Christine Phillips, and Sally Hall
APOE ε4 moderates abnormal CSF-abeta-42 levels, while neurocognitive impairment is associated with abnormal CSF tau levels in HIV+ individuals – a cross-sectional observational study, Lucette A. Cysique, Timothy Hewitt, Juliana Croitoru-Lamoury, Kevin Taddei, Ralph N. Martins, Constance S. Chew, Nicholas N. Davies, Patricia Price, and Bruce J. Brew
When a patient's ethnicity is declared, medical students' decision-making processes are affected, S C. Ewen, J Barrett, David Paul, D Askew, G Webb, and A Wilkin
Acute ankle and knee injuries: To x-ray or not?, G Fulde
Meningitis or septicaemia in a backpacker?, Sascha Fulde and Gordian Fulde
Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development, G Gallego, A Dew, K Bulkeley, C Veitch, M Lincoln, A Bundy, and J Brentnall
Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the job preferences of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural Australia, G Gallego, A Dew, M Lincoln, A Bundy, R Chedid, K Bulkeley, J Brentnall, and C Veitch
Protocol for the Care-IS Trial: a randomised controlled trial of a supportive educational intervention for carers of patients with high-grade glioma (HGG), G K B Halkett, Elizabeth A. Lobb, L Miller, J L. Phillips, T Shaw, R Moorin, A Long, A King, J Clarke, S Fewster, P Hudson, M Agar, and A K. Nowak
A comparison of the predictive accuracy of three screening models for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis, Yanjie Hao, Vivek Thakkar, Wendy Stevens, Kathleen Morrisroe, David Prior, Candice Rabusa, Peter Youssef, Eli Gabbay, Janet Roddy, Jennifer Walker, Jane Zochling, Joanne Sahhar, Peter Nash, Susan Lester, Maureen Rischmueller, Susanna M. Proudman, and Mandana Nikpour
General practice registrars’ intentions for future practice: Implications for rural medical workforce planning, C Harding, A Seal, J McGirr, and T Caton
Improving allied health professionals' research implementation behaviours for children with cerebral palsy: protocol for a before-after study, Christine Imms, Iona Novak, Claire Kerr, Nora Shields, Melinda Randall, Adrienne Harvey, H Kerr Graham, and Dinah Reddihough
Australian Fathers' Study: What influences paternal engagement with antenatal care?, T Jeffrey, K Luo, B Kueh, R Petersen, and J Quinlivan
Impact of geography on the control of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a review of geocoded clinical data from general practice, Moyez Jiwa, Ori Gudes, Richard Varhol, and Narelle Mullan
How do general practitioners manage patients with cancer symptoms? A video-vignette study, Moyez Jiwa, Xingqiong Meng, Carolyn O'Shea, Parker Magin, Ann Dadich, and Vinita Pillai
Discrepancy of target sites between clinician and cytopathological reports in head neck fine needle aspiration: Did I miss the target or did the clinician mistake the organ site?, M Khanlari, Y Daneshbod, H Yazdi, S Shirian, S Negahban, A Aledavood, A Oryan, B Khademi, K Daneshbod, and A Field
Osseointegrated total knee replacement connected to a lower limb prosthesis: 4 cases, Aditya Khemka, Laurent Frossard, Sarah J. Lord, Belinda Bosley, and Munjed Al Muderis
Tracking funded health intervention research, Lesley A. King, Robyn S. Newson, Gillian E. Cohen, Jacqueline Schroeder, Selina Redman, Lucie Rychetnik, Andrew J. Milat, Adrian Bauman, and Simon Chapman
Methodological background and strategy for the 2012-2013 updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the abdominal compartment society, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Derek J. Roberts, Roman Jaeschke, Jan J. De Waele, Bart L. De Keulenaer, Juan Duchesne, Martin Bjorck, Ari Leppaniemi, Janeth C. Ejike, Michael Sugrue, Michael Cheatham, Rao Ivatury, Chad G. Ball, Annika Reintam Blaser, Adrian Regli, Zsolt J. Balogh, Scott D'Amours, Inneke De Iaet, and Manu L.N.G Malbrain
Target definition for shipwreck hunting, Kim Kirsner
Neuropsychological and functional outcomes in recent-onset major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a longitudinal cohort study, R Lee, D Hermens, S Naismith, J Lagopoulos, A Jones, J Scott, K Chitty, D White, R Robillard, E Scott, and I Hickie
Evaluation of the regional nurse-supported hepatitis C shared care program in Western Australia: a mixed methods study, Roanna Lobo, Lester Mascarenhas, David Worthington, Judith Bevan, and Donna B. Mak
Optimising motor learning in infants at high risk of cerebral palsy: a pilot study, Catherine Morgan, Iona Novak, Russell Dale, and Nadia Badawi
Defining speech and language fluency profiles in children with and without family history of stuttering, before and after the onset of stuttering: Preliminary findings, C Y. Nang, K Kirsner, and Kathryn Hird
A mixed methods study of the factors that influence whether intervention research has policy and practice impacts: perceptions of Australian researchers, Robyn Newson, Lesley King, Lucie Rychetnik, Adrian E. Bauman, Sally Redman, Andrew J. Milat, Jacqueline Schroeder, Gillian Cohen, and Simon Chapman
Do patients with long-term side effects of cancer treatment benefit from general practitioner support? A literature review, I Ngune, M Jiwa, A McManus, and J Hughes
Framing overdiagnosis in breast screening: a qualitative study with Australian experts, Lisa M. Parker, Lucie Rychetnik, and Stacy Carter
The role of communication in breast cancer screening: A qualitative study with Australian experts, Lisa M. Parker, Lucie Rychetnik, and Stacy M. Carter
Values in breast cancer screening: an empirical study with Australian experts, Lisa Parker, Lucie Rychetnik, and Stacy Carter
Recurrent nocturnal hypoglycaemia as a cause of morning fatigue in treated Addison’s disease – Favourable response to dietary management: A case report, Kristina S. Petersen, R Louise Rushworth, Peter M. Clifton, and David J. Torphy
De novo identification of differentially methylated regions in the human genome, Timothy J. Peters, Michael J. Buckley, Aaron L. Statham, Ruth Pidsley, Katherine Samaras, Reginald V. Lord, Susan J. Clark, and Peter L. Molloy
The thalamus as a putative biomarker in neurodegenerative disorders, Brian D. Power and Jeffrey C.L Looi
Can we identify women who initiate and then prematurely cease breastfeeding? An Australian multicentre cohort study, Julie Quinlivan, Sonia Kua, Robert A. Gibson, Andrew McPhee, and Maria M. Makrides
Comparison of text-messaging to voice telephone interviews for active surveillance of adverse events following immunisation, A Regan, C Blyth, L Tracey, D Mak, P Richmond, and P Efflier
Surveillance of antenatal influenza vaccination: validity of current systems and recommendations for improvement, Annette Regan, Donna Mak, Hannah C. Moore, Lauren Tracey, Richard Saker, Catherine Jones, and Paul Effler
A prospective cohort study comparing the reactogenicity of trivalent influenza vaccine in pregnant and non-pregnant women, A Regan, L Tracey, C Blyth, D Mak, P Richmond, G Shellam, C Talbot, and P Effler
Diagnosis and management of respiratory adverse events in the operating room, Adrian Regli and Britta S. von Ungern-Sternberg
Paramedics' perceptions and educational needs with respect to palliative care, Ian R. Rogers, Freya M. Shearer, Jeremy R. Rogers, Gail Ross-Adjie, Leanne Monterosso, and Judith C. Finn
Implementation of the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups criteria: Not always a cause for concern, P Sibartie and J Quinlivan
Prudentia: a medical school's solution to curriculum mapping and curriculum management, Carole Steketee
Experience of a tutor centric model for sonography training of emergency department registrars in an Australian urban emergency department 2009–2012, Greg Sweetman, Mark Fear, and Kathryn Hird
Apathy and suicide-related ideation 3 months after stroke: a cross-sectional study, Wai Kwong Tang, Lara Caeiro, Chieh Grace Lau, Huajun Liang, Vincent Mok, Gabor S. Ungvari, and Ka Sing Wong
Twenty-year outcomes of a longitudinal prospective evaluation of isolated endoscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with patellar tendon autografts, Simon Thompson, Lucy Salmon, Alison Waller, James Linklater, Justin Roe, and Leo Pinczewski
Twenty-year outcome of a longitudinal prospective evaluation of isolated endoscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with patellar tendon or hamstring autograft, S Thompson, L Salmon, A Waller, J Linklater, J Roe, and L Pinczewski
Adverse events following influenza immunization reported by healthcare personnel using active surveillance based on text messages, L Tracey, A Regan, D Mak, and P Effler
Relationship between serum testosterone and fracture risk in men: a comparison of RIA and LC-MS/MS, Thach S. Tran, Jacqueline R. Center, Markus J. Seibel, John A. Eisman, Mark M. Kushnir, Alan L. Rockwood, and Tuan V. Nguyen
Conversion of a gastric band into an intraperitoneal port in a patient with optimally debulked stage 3C serous ovarian carcinoma, P Tucker, P Cohen, J Tan, and J Tan
Why HITnet kiosks didn't hit the mark for sexual health education of Western Australian Aboriginal youth, D Vujcich, N Hadland, B A. Sullivan, S Clews, K Kerry, and D Mak
Using the script concordance test to assess clinical reasoning skills in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine, Michael Wan
Trans-arterial embolisation therapies for unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: A systematic review, L. Yang, J Shan, L Shan, A Saxena, L Bester, and D Morris
Early primary care physician contact and health service utilisation in a large sample of recently released ex-prisoners in Australia: prospective cohort study, Jesse T. Young, Diane Arnold-Reed, David Preen, Max Bulsara, Nick Lennox, and Stuart A. Kinner
Submissions from 2014
External validation of the Garvan nomograms for predicting absolute fracture risk: The Tromso study, Luai A. Ahmed, Nguyen D. Nguyen, Ashild Bjornerem, Ragnar M. Joakimsen, Lone Jorgensen, Jan Stormer, Dana Bliuc, Jacqueline R. Center, John A. Eisman, Tuan V. Nguyen, and Nina Emaus
Evaluating the Guideline Enhancement Tool (GET): an innovative clinical training tool to enhance the use of hypertension guidelines in general practice, Chinthaka Balasooriya, Joel Rhee, Boaz Shulruf, Rosa Canalese, and Nicholas Zwar
Multimorbidity in a marginalised, street-health Australian population: a retrospective cohort study, Tom Brett, Diane Arnold-Reed, Lakkina Troeung, Max Bulsara, Annalise Williams, and Robert G. Moorhead
Domestic violence is a leading risk factor in default from colposcopy services, Rachael R. Collier and Julie Quinlivan
Intraoperative radiotherapy for early breast cancer: Do health professionals choose convenience or risk?, Tammy Corica, David Joseph, Christobel Saunders, Max Bulsara, and Anna K. Nowak
Local therapy facilitators working with children with developmental delay in rural and remote areas of western New South Wales, Australia: The ‘Outback’ service delivery model, A Dew, K Bulkeley, C Veitch, A Bundy, M Lincoln, H Glenn, G Gallego, and J Brentnall
Technical quality assurance during the TROG 03.04 ‘RADAR’ prostate radiotherapy trial: are the results reflected in observed toxicity rates?, M A. Ebert, Max Bulsara, A Haworth, R Kearvell, S Richardson, A Kennedy, N A. Spry, S A. Bydder, D J. Joseph, and J W. Denham
Robot-assisted gastrectomy and oesophagectomy for cancer, Dan Falkenback, Christopher W. Lehane, and Reginald V.N Lord
High expression of Cathepsin E in tissues but not blood of patients with Barrett’s esophagus and adenocarcinoma, Oliver M. Fisher, Angelique J. Levert-Mignon, Sarah J. Lord, Natalie K. Botelho, Araluen K. Freeman, Melissa L. Thomas, Dan Falkenback, Antony Wettstein, David C. Whiteman, Yuri V. Bobryshev, and Reginald V. Lord
From biomarkers to medical tests: The changing landscape of test evaluation, Andrea R. Horvath, Sarah J. Lord, Andrew St John, Sverre Sandberg, Christa M. Cobbaert, Stefan Lorenz, Phillip J. Monaghan, Wilma D.J. Verhagen-Kamerbeek, Christoph Ebert, and Patrick M.M. Bossuyt
Image analysis of liver biopsy samples measures fibrosis and predicts clinical outcome, Yi Huang, Bastiaan de Boer, Leon A. Adams, Gerry MacQuillan, Max Bulsara, and Gary P. Jeffrey
Image analysis of liver biopsy samples measures fibrosis and predicts clinical outcome, Yi Huang, Bastiaan De Boer, Leon A. Adams, Gerry MacQuillan, Max Bulsara, and Gary P. Jeffrey
Rating general practitioner consultation performance in cancer care: Does the specialty of assessors matter? A simulated patient study, M Jiwa, G Halkett, X Meng, and M Berg
A randomised trial deploying a simulation to investigate the impact of hospital discharge letters on patient care in general practice, M Jiwa, X Meng, C O'Shea, P Magin, A Dadich, and V Pillai
Management of behavioural change in patients presenting with a diagnosis of dementia: A video vignette study with Australian general practitioners, M Jiwa, P Nichols, P Magin, G Pagey, X Meng, R Parsons, and V Pillai
Early discontinuation of endocrine therapy for breast cancer: Who is at risk in clinical practice?, Anna Kemp, David Preen, Christobel Saunders, Francis Boyle, Max Bulsara, Eva Malacova, and Elizabeth E. Roughead
An audit of chronic hepatitis B contact tracing in metropolitan Western Australia, L Mascarenhas and Donna B. Mak
A panel of genes methylated with high frequency in colorectal cancer, Susan M. Mitchell, Jason P. Ross, Horace R. Drew, Thu Ho, Glenn S. Brown, Neil F W Saunders, Konsta R. Duesing, Michael J. Buckley, Rob Dunne, Iain Beetson, Keith N. Rand, Aidan McEvoy, Melissa L. Thomas, Rohan T. Baker, David A. Wattchow, Graeme P. Young, Trevor J. Lockett, Susanne K. Pedersen, Lawrence C. LaPointe, and Peter L. Molloy
Genomic catastrophes frequently arise in esophageal adenocarcinoma and drive tumorigenesis, K Nones, N Waddell, N Wayte, A Patch, P Bailey, F Newell, O Holmes, J Fink, M Quinn, Y Tang, G Lampe, K Quek, K Loffler, S Manning, S Idrisoglu, D Miller, Q Xu, N Waddell, P Wilson, T Bruxner, A Christ, I Harliwong, C Nourse, E Nourbakhsh, M Anderson, S Kazakoff, C Leonard, S Wood, P Simpson, L Reid, L Krause, D Hussey, D Watson, R Lord, D Nancarrow, W Phillips, D Gotley, B Smithers, D Whiteman, N Hayward, P Campbell, J Pearson, S Grimmond, and A Barbour
Eye trauma epidemiology in regional Australia, Luke C. Northey, Gaurav Bhardwaj, Shane Curran, and Joseph McGirr
The role of the hepatocyte growth factor/c-MET pathway in pancreatic stellate cell-endothelial cell interactions: Antiangiogenic implications in pancreatic cancer, Mishaal B. Patel, Srinivasa P. Pothula, Zhihong Xu, Alexandra K. Lee, David Goldstein, Romano C. Pirola, Minoti V. Apte, and Jeremy S. Wilson
Osteoporosis and fragility fractures: A practical approach, Yvonne Selecki and John A. Eisman
Non-culture Neisseria gonorrhoeae molecular penicillinase production surveillance demonstrates the long-term success of empirical dual therapy and informs gonorrhoea management guidelines in a highly endemic setting, David J. Speers, Rachel E. Fisk, Namraj Goire, and Donna Mak
A longitudinal cohort study of the impact of first and both eye cataract surgery on falls and other injuries in Vietnam, Kien Gia To, Lynn Meuleners, Max Bulsara, Michelle L. Fraser, Dat Van Deong, Dung Van Do, Van-Anh Ngoc Huynch, Tien Duy Phi, and Hoang Huy Tran
Radiotherapy for breast cancer, the TARGIT-A trial — Authors' reply, Jayant S. Vaidya, Frederik Wenz, Max Bulsara, Jeffrey S. Tobias, David Joseph, and Michael Baum
Risk-adapted targeted intraoperative radiotherapy versus whole-breast radiotherapy for breast cancer: 5-year results for local control and overall survival from the TARGIT-A randomised trial, Jayant S. Vaidya, Frederik Wenz, Max Bulsara, Jeffrey S. Tobias, David Joseph, Mohammed Keshtgar, Henrik Flyger, Samuele Massarut, Michael Alvarado, Christobel Saunders, Wolfgang Eiermann, Marinos Metaxas, Elena Sperk, Marc Sutterlin, Douglas Brown, Laura Esserman, Mario Roncadin, Alastair Thompson, John Dewar, Helle R. Holtveg, Steffi Pigorsch, Mary Falzon, Eleanor Harris, April Matthews, Chris Brew-Graves, Ingrid Potyka, Tammy Corica, Norman R. Williams, and Michael Baum
Assessing self-perception in patients with chronic low back pain: Development of a back-specific body-perception questionnaire, Benedict M. Wand, Monique James, Sam Abbaszadeh, Pamela Jane George, Pamela Margaret Formby, Anne Julia Smith, and Neil Edward O'Connell
Case series of elective instrumented posterior lumbar spinal fusions demonstrating a low incidence of venous thromboembolism, Benjamin Weber, Alexa Seal, Joseph McGirr, and Kerin Fielding