Our Publications
2020
Journals
Ahern S, Dean J, Liman J, Ruseckaite R, Burke N, Gollan M, Keatley L, King S, Kotsimbos T, Middleton PG, Schultz A, Wainwright C, Wark P, Bell S. Redesign of the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry: A multidisciplinary collaboration. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2020 Mar 26;S1526-0542(20)30028-2. doi: 10.1016/j.prrv.2020.03.001
Ahern S, Feiler R, Sdrinis S. Maximising the value of clinical registry information through integration with a health service clinical governance framework: A care study. Aust Health Rev. 2020; 44: 421-426. doi: 10.1071/AH19004
Ayton DR, Gardam ML, Pritchard EK, Ruseckaite R, Ryan J, Robinson SJ, Brodaty H, Ward SA, Ahern S. Patient-reported outcome measures to inform care of people with dementia – a systematic scoping review. Gerontologist. 2020; gnz179. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnz179
Ayton D, Gardam M, Ward S, Brodaty H, Pritchard E, Earnest A, Krysinska K, Banaszak-Holl J, McNeil J, Ahern S. How can quality of dementia care be measured? The development of clinical quality indicators for an Australian Pilot Dementia Registry. JAD. 2020; 75: 923-936. doi: 10.3233/JAD-191044
Ayton D, O’Donnell R, Vicary D, Bateman C, Moran C, Srikanth VK, Lustig J, Banaszak-Holl J, Hunter P, Pritchard E, Morris H, Savaglio M, Parikh S, Skouteris H. Psychosocial volunteer support for older adults with cognitive impairment: development of MyCare Ageing using a codesign approach via action research. BMJ Open. 2020; 10: e036449. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036449
Ayton D, Soh S-E, Morello R, Ahern S, Earnest A, Brennan A, Lefkovits J, Evans S, Reid C, Ruseckaite R, McNeil J. Development of a percutaneous coronary intervention patient level composite measure for a clinical quality registry. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020; 20: 44. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4814-6
Burrell AJC, Pellegrini B, Salimi F, Begum H, Broadley T, Campbell LT, Cheng AC, Cheung W, Cooper DJ, Earnest A, Erickson SJ, French CJ, Kaldor JM, Litton E, Murthy S, McAllister R, Nichol A, Palermo A, Plummer M, Ramanan M, Reddi B, Reynolds C, Trapani T, Webb SAR, Udy A. Outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to Australian intensive care units during the early phase of the pandemic. Med J Aust. 2021 Jan;214(1):23-30. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50883. Epub 2020 Dec 15. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50883
Chan SL, Ho AF, Ding H, Liu N, Earnest A, Koh MS, Chuah JS, Lau ZY, Tan KB, Zheng H, Morgan GG, Ong ME. Impact of air pollution and trans-boundary haze on nation-wide emergency department visits and hospital admissions in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2020; 49: 78-87. Link
Cosgriff R, Ahern S, Bell SC, Brownlee K, Burgel P-R, Byrnes C, Corvol H, Cheng SY, Elbert A, Faro A, Goss CH, Gulmans V, Marshall BC, McKone E, Middleton PG, Ruseckaite R, Stephenson AL, Carr SB. A multinational report to characterise SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with cystic fibrosis. J Cyst Fibrosis. 2020; 19: 355-358. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2020.04.012
Earnest A, Salimi F, Wainwright CE, Bell SC, Ruseckaite R, Ranger T, Kotsimbos T, Ahern S. Lung function over the life course of paediatric and adult patients with cystic fibrosis from a large multi-centre registry. Sci Rep. 2020; 10: 17421. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74502-1
Ho AFW, Zheng H, Cheong KH, En WL, Pek PP, Zhao X, Morgan GG, Earnest A, Tan BYQ, Ng YY, Foo LL, Ong MEH. The relationship between air pollution and all-cause mortality in Singapore. Atmosphere. 2020; 11: 9. doi: 10.3390/atmos11010009
Hoy RF, Glass DC, Dimitriadis C, Hansen J, Hore-Lacy F, Sim MR. Identification of early-stage silicosis through health screening of stone benchtop industry workers in Victoria, Australia. Occup Environ Med. 2020. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2020-106897
Hoy RD, Hansen J, Glass DC, Dimitriadis C, Hore-Lacy F, Sim MR. Serum angiotensin converting enzyme elevation in association with artificial stone silicosis. Respir Med. 2020; 177: 106289. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106289
Largey G, Briggs P, Davies H, Underhill C, Ross C, Harvey K, Blum R, Parker C, Guthrie C, Parente P, Trevorah B, Torres J, Mott C, Lancaster C, Brand M, Earnest A, Pellegrini B, Reed M, Zalcberg J, Stirling R. The Victorian Lung Cancer Service redesign project: Impacts of a quality improvement collaborative on timeliness and management in lung cancer. Intern Med J 2020. doi: 10.1111/imj.15043
Lim SL, Smith K, Dyson K, Chan SP, Earnest A, Nair R, Bernard S, Leong BS-H, Arulanandam S, Ng YY, Ong MEH. Incidence and outcomes of Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest in Singapore and Victoria: A collaborative study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020; 9: e015981. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.015981
Lin X, Wallis K, Ward SA, Brodaty H, Sachdev PS, Naismith SL, Krysinska K, McNeil J, Rowe CC, Ahern S. The protocol of a clinical quality registry for dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI): the Australian dementia network (ADNeT) Registry. BMC Geriatrics. 2020; 20: 330. doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01741-2
McClenaghan E, Cosgriff R, Brownlee K, Ahern S, Burgel PR, Byrnes CA, Colombo C, Corvol H, Cheng SY, Daneau G, Elbert A, Faro A, Goss CH, Gulmans V, Gutierrez H, de Monestrol I, Jung A, Justus LN, Kashirskaya N, Marshall BC, McKone E, Middleton PG, Mondejar-Lopez P, Pastor-Vivero MD, Padoan R, Rizvi S, Ruseckaite R, Salvatore M, Stephenson AL, da Silva Filho LVR, Melo J, Zampoli M, Carr SB. The global impact of SARS-CoV-2 in 181 people with cystic fibrosis. J Cystic Fibrosis. 2020; 19: 868-871. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2020.10.003
Merenda M, Vishwanath S, Ng S, Parker E, Ernest A, Klassen A, Pusic A, Hopper I. Test-retest reliability of the BREAST-Q IS in the Australian Breast Device Registry. Aesthet Surg J. 2020; sjaa342. doi: 10.1093/asj/sjaa342
Moore EM, King TA, Wood EM, Ruseckaite R, Klarica D, Spencer A, Ho PJ, Quach H, Prince HM, McQuilten ZK. Patient-reported outcome measures in multiple myeloma: Real-time reporting to improve care (My-PROMPT) – a pilot randomized controlled trial. Am J Hematol. 2020; 95: E178-E181. doi: 10.1002/ajh.25815
O’Donnell R, Savaglio M, Skouteris H, Banaszak-Holl J, Moran C, Morris H, Vicary D, Ayton D. The effectiveness of transition interventions to support older patients from hospital to home: A systematic scoping review. J Appl Gerontol. 2020. doi: 10.1177/0733464820968712
Panayiotou A, Hwang K, Williams S, Chong TWH, LoGiudice D, Haralambous B, Lin X, Zucchi E, Mascitti-Meuter M, Goh AMY, You E, Batchelor F. The perceptions of translation apps for everyday health care in healthcare workers and older people: A multi-method study. JCN 2020; 29: 3516-3526. doi: 10.1111/jocn.15390
Pease A, Lo C, Earnest A, Kiriakova V, Liew D, Zoungas S. The efficacy of technology in Type 1 diabetes: A systematic review, network meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2020; 22: 411-421. doi: 10.1089/dia.2019.0417
Pease A, Lo C, Earnest A, Kiriakova V, Liew D, Zoungas S. Time in range for multiple technologies in Type 1 diabetes: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Diabetes Care. 2020; 43: 1967-1975. doi: 10.2337/dc19-1785
Pease A, Zomer E, Liew D, Earnest A, Soldatos G, Ademi Z, Zoungas S. Cost-effectiveness analysis of a hybrid closed-loop system versus multiple daily injections and capillary glucose testing for adults with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Technol Ther. 2020; 22: 812-821. doi: 10.1089/dia.2020.0064
Pease A, Zomer E, Liew D, Lo C, Earnest A, Zoungas S. Cost-effectiveness of health technologies in adults with type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. Syst Rev. 2020; 9: 171. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01373-y
Ratnayake I, Ahern S, Ruseckaite R. A systematic review of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in cystic fibrosis. BMJ Open. 2020; 10: e033867. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033867
Ratnayake I, Ahern S, Ruseckaite R. Patient-reported outcome measures in cystic fibrosis: Protocol for a systematic review. JMIR Res Protoc. 2020; 9: e15467. doi: 10.2196/15467
Ruseckaite R, Richards C, Rutherford C, Team V, Turnour L, Franks P, Weller C. A conceptual framework of patient-reported outcomes in people with venous leg ulcers. Wound Repair Regen. 2020; 28: 355-363. doi: 10.1111/wrr.12787
Samoborec S, Simpson P, Hassani-Mahmooei B, Ruseckaite R, Giummarra M, Ayton D, Evans S. Impact of comorbidity on health outcome after a transport-related injury. Inj Prev. 2020; 26: 254-261. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043195
Samoborec S, Simpson P, Ruseckaite R, Ayton D, Evans S. Biopsychosocial factors associated with poor health-related quality of life after minor to moderate transport-related injuries: Insights into the Victorian compensable population. J Rehabil Med. 2020; 52: jrm00018. doi: 10.2340/16501977-2616
Sellars M, Detering KM, Sinclair C, White BP, Buck K, Ruseckaite R, Clayton JM, Nolte L. Personal and interpersonal factors and their associations with advance care planning documentation: A cross-sectional survey of older adults in Australia. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020; 59: 1212-1222.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.12.371
Shuman CJ, Ehrhart MG, Torres EM, Veliz P, Kath LM, VanAntwerp K, Banaszak-Holl J, Titler MG, Aarons GA. EBP implementation leadership of frontline nurse managers: Validation of the implementation leadership scale in acute care. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2020; 17: 82-91. doi: 10.1111/wvn.12402
Spronk PER, Begum H, Vishwanath S, Crosbie A, Earnest A, Elder E, Lumenta DB, Marinac-Dabic D, Moore CCM, Mureau MAM, Perks G, Pusic AL, Stark B, von Fritschen U, Klein H, Cooter RD, Rakhorst HA, Hopper I. Toward international harmonization of Breast Implant Registries: International collaboration of Breast Registry activities global common data set. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020; 146: 255-267. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006969
Szwarcbard N, Villani M, Earnest A, Flack J, Andrikopoulos S, Wischer N, Soldatos G, Gasevic D, Zoungas S. The association of smoking status with glycemic control, metabolic profile and diabetic complications – results of the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA). J Diabetes Complications. 2020; 34: 107626. doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2020.107626
Tay CT, Hart RJ, Hickey M, Moran LJ, Earnest A, Doherty DA, Teede HJ, Joham AE. Updated adolescent diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome: impact on prevalence and longitudinal body mass index trajectories from birth to adulthood. BMC Medicine. 2020; 18. doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01861-x
Wah W, Ahern S, Earnest A. A systematic review of Bayesian spatial-temporal models on cancer incidence and mortality. Int J Public Health. 2020; 65: 673-682. doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01384-5
Wah W, Stirling R, Ahern S, Earnest A. Association between receipt of guideline-concordant lung cancer treatment and individual- and area-level factors: A spatio-temporal analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020; 29: 2669-2679. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0709
Wah W, Stirling R, Ahern S, Earnest A. Influence of timeliness and receipt of first treatment on geographic variation in non-small cell lung cancer mortality. Int J Cancer. 2020; 1-11. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33343
Yang TWW, Johari Y, Burton PR, Earnest A, Shaw K, Hare JL, Brown WA. Bariatric surgery in patients with severe heart failure. Obes Surg. 2020; 30: 2863-2869. doi: 10.1007/s11695-020-04612-2
2019
Journals
Ahern S, Evans S, Hopper I, Zalcberg J. Towards a strategy for clinical quality registries in Australia. Aust Health Rev 2019; 43: 284-287. doi: 10.1071/AH17201
Ahern S, Hopper I, Loh E. Qualified privilege legislation to support clinician quality assurance: balancing professional and public interests. MJA 2019; 210: 313-346. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50124
Ahern S, Ruseckaite R, Dean J. Emerging Registry uses requires adaptable systems: reinventing the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry. J Cystic Fibrosis 2019; 18: S80. doi: 10.1016/S1569-1993(19)30375-3
Ayton D, Ayton S, Barker AL, Bush AI, Warren N. Parkinson’s disease prevalence and the association with rurality and agricultural determinants. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2019; 61: 198-202. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2018.10.026
Ayton D, Moran C, Berkovic D, Bateman C, Anderson K, Blair A, Soh S-E, Morello R, Lim YY, Liew D. The Volunteer Dementia and Delirium Care (VDDC)©: A pre-implementation study exploring perceived acceptability to implementing the program in an acute and subacute metropolitan hospital. Australas J Ageing 2019. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12725
Ayton D, Moran C, Berkovic D, Bateman C, Anderson K, Blair A, Soh S-E, Morello R, Lim YY, Liew D. The Volunteer Dementia and Delirium Care (VDDC)©: An exploration of perceived barriers and enablers to implementation in an acute and subacute metropolitan hospital. Australas J Ageing 2019. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12726
Ayton D, Pritchard E, Tsindos T. Acquired brain injury in the context of family violence: A systematic scoping review of incidence, prevalence, and contributing factors. Trauma Violence Abuse 2019; 16: 1524838018821951. doi: 10.1177/1524838018821951
Barker A, Cameron P, Flicker L, Arendts G, Brand C, Etherton-Beer C, Forbes A, Haines T, Hill A-M, Hunter P, Lowthian J, Nyman SR, Redfern J, Smit DV, Waldron N, Boyle E, MacDonald E, Ayton D, Morello R, Hill K. Evaluation of RESPOND, a patient-centred program to prevent falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: A randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med 2019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002807
Begum H, Vishwanath S, Merenda M, Tacey M, Dean N, Elder E, Mureau M, Bezic R, Carter P, Cooter RD, Deva A, Earnest A, Higgs M, Klein H, Magnusson M, Moore C, Rakhorst H, Saunders C, Stark B, Hopper I. Defining quality indicators for breast device surgery: Using registries for global benchmarking. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open 2019; 7: e2348. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002348
Bunzli S, O’Brien P, Ayton D, Dowsey M, Gunn J, Choong P, Manski-Nankervis J-A. Misconceptions and the acceptance of evidence-based nonsurgical interventions for knee osteoarthritis. A qualitative study. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2019; 477: 1975-1983. doi: 10.1097/CORR.0000000000000784
Cameron PA, Fitzgerald MC, Curtis K, McKie E, Gabbe B, Earnest A, Christey G, Clarke C, Crozier J, Dinh M, Ellis DY, Howard T, Joseph AP, McDermott K, Matthew J, Ogilvie R, Pollard C, Rao S, Reade M, Rushworth N, Zalstein S, Australian Trauma Quality Improvement Program (AusTQIP) collaboration. Over view of major traumatic injury in Australia – Implications for trauma system design. Injury 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2019.09.036
Chosich B, Burgess M, Earnest A, Franco M, Runacres F, William L, Poon P, Yoong J. Cancer patients’ perceptions of palliative care. Support Care Cancer 2019. doi: 10.1007/s00520-019-04917-8
Coady V, Warren N, Bilkhu, Ayton D. Preferences for rural specialist health care in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease: Exploring the role of community-based nursing specialists. Aust J Prim Health 2019; 25: 49-53. doi: 10.1071/PY17119
Daly JO, Ahern S, Herkes R, O’Connell HE. The Australasian Pelvic Floor Procedure Registry: Not before time. ANZJOG 2019; 59: 473-476. doi: 10.1111/ajo.13030
Earnest A, Evans SM, Sampurno F, Millar JL. Forecasting annual incidence and mortality rate for prostate cancer in Australia until 2022 using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models. BMJ Open 2019; 9: e031331. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031331
Ho AFW, Zheng H, Earnest A, Cheong KH, Pek PP, Seok JY, Liu N, Kwan YH, Tan JWC, Wong TH, Hausenloy DJ, Foo LL, Tan BYQ, Ong MEH. Time-stratified case crossover study of the association of outdoor ambient air pollution with the risk of acute myocardial infarction in the context of seasonal exposure to the Southeast Asian haze problem. J Am Heart Assoc 2019; 8: e011272. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.118.011272
Hopper I, Parker E, Pellegrini B, Mulvany C, Pase M, Ahern S, Earnest A, Cooter R, Elder E, Moore CC, McNeil JJ. Australian Breast Device Registry: 2017 Annual Report. Monash University 2019; 52 pp. ABDR-2017-report.pdf
Hopper I, Parker E, Pellegrini B, Mulvany C, Pase M, Ahern S, Earnest A, Cooter R, Farrell G, Elder E, Moore C, McNeil J, on behalf of the Australian Breast Device Registry. Australian Breast Device Registry: 2018 Annual Report. Monash University 2019; 72 pp. ABDR-2018-report.pdf
Hoque EME, Earnest A, Ruseckaite R, Lorgelly P, Sampurno F, Evans M, Evans SM. A randomised controlled trial comparing completeness of responses of three methods of collecting patient-reported outcome measures in men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Qual Life Res 2019; 28: 687-694. doi: 10.1007/s11136-018-2061-7
Ierano C, Thursky K, Peel T, Rajkhowa A, Marshall C, Ayton D. Influences on surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis decision making by surgical craft groups, anaesthetists, pharmacists and nurses in public and private hospitals. PLoS One 2019; 14: e0225011. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225011
Ioannou LJ, Serpell J, Dean J, Bendinelli C, Gough J, Lisewski D, Miller JA, Meyer-Rochow W, Sidhu S, Topliss D, Walters D, Zalcberg J, Ahern S. Development of a binational thyroid cancer clinical quality registry: a protocol paper. BMJ Open 2019; 9: e023723. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023723
Kakoly NS, Earnest A, Teede HJ, Moran LJ, Joham AE. The impact of obesity on the incidence of type 2 diabetes among women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Diabetes Care 2019; 42: 560-567. doi: 10.2337/dc18-1738
Kannan A, Kirkman M, Ruseckaite R, Evans SM. Prostate care and prostate cancer from the perspectives of undiagnosed men: a systematic review of qualitative research. BMJ Open 2019; 9: e022842. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022842
Morello RT, Soh S-E, Behm K, Egan A, Ayton D, Hill K, Flicker L, Etherton-Beer CD, Arendts G, Waldron N, Redfern J, Haines T, Lowthian J, Nyman SR, Cameron P, Fairhall N, Barker AL. Multifactorial falls prevention programmes for older adults presenting to the Emergency Department with a fall: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Inj Prev 2019; 25: 557-564. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043214
Morris RL, Hill KD, Ackerman IN, Ayton D, Arendts G, Brand C, Cameron P, Etherton-Beer CD, Flicker L, Hill A-M, Hunter P, Lowthian JA, Morello R, Nyman SR, Redfern J, Smit DV, Barker AL. A mixed methods process evaluation of a person-centred falls prevention program. BMC Health Serv Res 2019; 19: 906. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4614-z
O’Brien P, Bunzli S, Ayton D, Dowsey MM, Gunn J, Manski-Nankervis J-A. What are the patient factors that impact on decisions to progress to total knee replacement? A qualitative study involving patients with knee osteoarthritis. BMJ Open 2019; 9: e031310. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031310
Ooi GJ, Burton PR, Bayliss J, Raajendiran A, Earnest A, Laurie C, Kemp WW, McLean CA, Roberts SK, Watt MJ, Brown WA. Effect of body mass index, metabolic health and adipose tissue inflammation on the severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in bariatric surgical patients: A prospective study. Obes Surg 2019; 29: 99-108. doi: 10.1007/s11695-018-3479-2
Pritchard E, Tsindos T, Ayton D. Practitioner perspectives on the nexus between acquired brain injury and family violence. Health Soc Care Community 2019; 27: 1283-1294. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12770
Ruseckaite R, Maharaj AD, Krysinska K, Dean J, Ashern S. Developing a preliminary conceptual framework for guidelines on inclusion of Patient Reported-Outcome Measures (PROMs) in clinical quality registries. Patient Relat Outcome Meas 2019; 10: 355-372. doi: 10.2147/PROM.S229569
Ruseckaite R, Ahern S, Earnest A, King S, Schultz A, Middleton P, Bell S. Survival of patients with cystic fibrosis in Australia. J Cystic Fibrosis 2019; 18: S18-S19. doi: 10.1016/S1569-1993(19)30175-4
Samoborec S, Ayton D, Ruseckaite R, Evans SM. Biopsychosocial barriers affecting recovery after a minor transport-related injury: A qualitative study from Victoria. Health Expect 2019; 22: 1003-1012. doi: 10.1111/hex.12907
Samoborec S, Ayton D, Ruseckaite R, Winbolt G, Evans SM. System complexities affecting recovery after a minor transport-related injury: The need for a person-centred approach. J Rehabil Med 2019; 51: 120-126. doi: 10.2340/16501977-2500
Samoborec S, Simpson P, Hassani-Mahmooei B, Ruseckaite R, Giummarra M, Ayton D, Evans S. Impact of comorbidity on health outcome after a transport-related injury. Inj Prev 2019; injuryprev-2019-043195. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043195
Soh S-E, Barker AL, Ayton DR, Ahern S, Morello R, Lefkovits J, Brennan AL, Evans S, Zalcberg JR, Reid CM, McNeil JJ. What matters most to patients following percutaneous coronary interventions? A new patient-reported outcome measure developed using Rasch analysis. PloS One 2019; 14: e0222185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222185
Villani M, Earnest A, Smith K, Giannopoulos D, Soldatos G, De Courten B, Zoungas S. Outcomes of people with severe hypoglycaemia requiring prehospital emergency medical services management: a prospective study. Diabetologia 2019; 62: 1868-1879. doi: 10.1007/s00125-019-4933-y
Wei WE, Wong CH, Matchar DB, Earnest A, Wah W, Ong MEH, Wong TH. Effect of housing type and neighborhood socioeconomic indicators on survival after low falls in older adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2019; 20: 646-649. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2018.12.016
Yang Y, Ling ML, Tan SB, Østbye T, Earnest A, Ng HS. The burden of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections among hospitalised patients in Singapore. Gestäo e Sociedada 2019; 13: 2650-2665. doi: 10.21171/ges.v13i34.2457
Book Chapter
Ahern S. Clinical Services Planning (Ch 4). In: Textbook of Medical Administration and Leadership (1st Edn) – Eds: Loh E, Long PW, Spurgeon P. 2019 – Springer, Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5454-9_4
2018
Journals
Ackerman IN, Soh S-E, Barker AL. Opportunities for cross-disciplinary care partnerships in physiotherapy. J Physiother 2018; 64: 69-71. doi:10.1016/j.jphys.2018.02.008
Ahern S, Apos E, McNeil JJ, Cunningham J, Johnson M. Monitoring outcomes in spine surgery: rationale behind the Australian Spine Registry. ANZ J Surg 2018; 88: 950-951. doi:10.1111/ans.14562
Ahern S, Evans S, Hopper I, Zalcberg J. Towards a strategy for clinical quality registries in Australia. Aust Health Rev 2018. doi:10.1071/AH17201
Ahern S, Evans SM, Hopper I, Earnest A. Clinical quality registries for clinician-level reporting: strengths and limitations. Med J Aust 2018: 208: 323. doi:10.5694/mja17.00644
Ahern S, Sims G, Earnest A, Bell SC. Optimism, opportunities, outcomes: the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry. Intern Med J 2018; 48: 721-723. doi:10.1111/imj.13807
Ayton D, Ayton S, Barker AL, Bush AI, Warren N. Parkinson’s disease prevalence and the association with rurality and agricultural determinants. Parkinsonism Relat Dis 2018. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2018.10.026
Barker AL, Peeters G, Morello RT, Norman R, Ayton D, Lefkovits J, Brennan A, Evans SM, Zalcberg J, Reid C, Ahern S, Soh S-E, Stoelwinder J, McNeil JJ. Symptoms and feelings valued by patients after a percutaneous coronary intervention: a discrete-choice experiment to inform development of a new patient-reported outcome. BMJ Open 2018; 8: e023141. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023141
Blackburn J, Zheng Q, Grabowski DC, Hirth R, Intrator O, Stevenson DG, Banaszak-Holl J. Nursing home chain affiliation and its impact on specialty service designation for Alzheimer disease. Inquiry-J Health Car 2018; 55. doi:10.1177/0046958018787992
Danek E, Earnest A, Wischer N, Andrikopoulos S, Pease A, Nanayakkara N, Zoungas S. Risk-adjustment of diabetes health outcomes improves the accuracy of performance benchmarking. Sci Rep 2018; 8: 10261. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28101-w
Detering KM, Buck K, Ruseckaite R, Kelly H, Sellars M, Sinclair C, Clayton JM, Nolte L. Prevalence and correlates of advance care directives among older Australians accessing health and residential aged care services: multicentre audit study. BMJ Open 2018; 9: e025255. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025255
Evans MA, Millar JL, Earnest A, Frydenberg M, Davis ID, Murphy DG, Kearns PA, Evans SM. Active surveillance of men with low risk prostate cancer: evidence from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry – Victoria. Med J Aust 2018; 208: 439-443. doi:10.5694/mja17.00559
Ho AFW, Wah W, Earnest A, Ng YY, Xie Z, Shahidah N, Yap S, Pek PP, Ong MEH. Health impacts of the southeast Asian haze problem – A time-stratified case crossover study of the relationship between ambient air pollution and sudden cardiac deaths in Singapore. Int J Cardiol 2018; 271: 352-358. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.04.070
Hopper I, Ahern S, Nguyen TQ, Mulvany C, McNeil JJ, Deva AK, Klein H, Stark B, Rakhorst HA, Cooter RD. Breast Implant Registries: a call to action. Aesthet Surg J 2018; 38: 807-810. doi:10.1093/asj/sjx153
Hoque DE, Earnest A, Ruseckaite R, Lorgelly P, Sampurno F, Evans M, Evans SM. A randomised controlled trial comparing completeness of responses of three methods of collecting patient-reported outcome measures in men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Qual Life Res 2018; 28: 687-694. doi:10.1007/s11136-018-2061-7
Hoque DE, Ruseckaite R, Lorgelly P, McNeil JJ, Evans SM. Cross-sectional study of characteristics of clinical registries in Australia: a resource for clinicians and policy makers. Int J Qual Health Care 2018; 30: 192-199. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzx196
Ierano C, Peel T, Ayton D, Rajkhowa A, Marshall C, Thursky K. Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis – the evidence and understanding its impact on consensus guidelines. Infection, Disease & Health 2018; 23: 179-188. doi:10.1016/j.idh.2018.05.003
Kannan A, Kirkman M, Ruseckaite R, Evans S. Prostate cancer awareness, case-finding, and early diagnosis: interviews with undiagnosed men in Australia. PloS One 2018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211539
Ooi GJ, Burton PR, Earnest A, Laurie C, Kemp WW, Nottle PD, McLean CA, Roberts SK, Brown WA. Visual liver score to stratify non-alcoholic steatohepatitis risk and determine selective intraoperative liver biopsy in obesity. Obes Surg 2018; 28: 427-436. doi:10.1007/s11695-017-2859-3
Ooi GJ, Earnest A, Doyle L, Laurie C, Wentworth JM, Sikaris K, le Roux CW, Burton PR, O’Brien PE, Brown WA. Detailed description of change in serum cholesterol profile with incremental weight loss after restrictive bariatric surgery. Obes Surg 2018; 28: 1351-1362. doi:10.1007/s11695-017-3015-9
Ooi GJ, Earnest A, Kemp WW, Burton PR, Laurie C, Majeed A, Johnson N, McLean C, Roberts SK, Brown WA. Evaluating feasibility and accuracy of non-invasive tests for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in severe and morbid obesity. Int J Obes (Lond) 2018; 42: 1900-1911. doi:10.1038/s41366-018-0007-3
Pease A, Earnest A, Ranasinha S, Nanayakkara N, Liew D, Wischer N, Andrikopoulos S, Zoungas S. Burden of cardiovascular risk factors and disease among patients with type 1 diabetes: results of the Australian National Diabetes Audit (ANDA). Cardiovasc Diabetol 2018; 17: 77. doi:10.1186/s12933-018-0726-8
Pease A, Lo C, Earnest A, Liew D, Zoungas S. Evaluating optimal utilisation of technology in type 1 diabetes mellitus from a clinical and health economic perspective: protocol for a systematic review. Syst Rev 2018; 7:44. doi:10.1186/s13643-018-0706-9
Peeters G, Barker AL, Talevski J, Ackerman I, Ayton DR, Reid C, Stoelwinder JU, McNeil JJ. Do patients have a say? A narrative review of the development of patient-reported outcome measures used in elective procedures for coronary revascularisation. Qual Life Res 2018; 27: 1369-1380. doi: 10.1007/s11136-018-1795-6
Ruseckaite R, Pekin N, King S, Carr E, Ahern S, Oldroyd J, Earnest A, Wainwright C, Armstrong D. Evaluating the impact of 2006 Australasian Clinical Practice Guidelines for nutrition in children with cystic fibrosis in Australia. Resp Med 2018; 142: 7-14. doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2018.07.007
Samoborec S, Ruseckaite R, Ayton D, Evans S. Biopsychosocial factors associated with non-recovery after a minor transport-related injury: A systematic review. PLoS One 2018; 13: e0198352. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198352
Sung SC, Ma J, Earnest A, Rush AJ, Lim LEC, Ong MEH. Screening for panic-related anxiety in emergency department patients with cardiopulmonary complaints: A comparison of two self-report instruments. Psychiatry Res 2018; 263: 7-14. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.031
Sung SC, Rush AJ, Earnest A, Lim LEC, Pek MPP, Choi JMF, Ng MPK, Ong MEH. A brief interview to detect panic attacks and panic disorder in Emergency Department patients with cardiopulmonary complaints. J Psychiatr Pract 2018; 24: 32-44. doi:10.1097/PRA.0000000000000283
Villani M, Earnest A, Smith K, de Courten B, Zoungas S. Geographical variation of diabetic emergencies attended by prehospital Emergency Medical Services is associated with measures of ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Sci Rep 2018; 8: 5122. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23457-5
Wang LL, Begashaw K, Evans M, Earnest A, Evans SM, Millar JL, Murphy DG, Moon D. Patterns of care and outcomes for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Victoria: an update. ANZ J Surg 2018; 88: 1037-1042. doi.org/10.1111/ans.14722
Book Chapter
Warren N, Ayton D. (Re)negotiating normal every day: phenomenological uncertainty in Parkinson’s disease (Ch 8). In: Disability, Normalcy and the Everyday (1st Edn) – Eds: Thomas GM, Sakellariou D. 2018 – Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, UK.