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Hospital‐acquired complications: the relative importance of hospital‐ and patient‐related factors
Complication rates reflect casemix and patient characteristics more than hospital factors and quality of care
Graeme J Duke · John L Moran · Andrew D Bersten · Shailesh Bihari · Owen Roodenburg · Jonathan Karnon · Steven Hirth · Paul Hakendorf · John D Santamaria
Competing risks of death and kidney failure in a cohort of Australian adults with severe chronic kidney disease
Clinical guidelines should include recommendations about holistic supportive care for older patients, not just dialysis and transplantation
Matthew D Jose · Rajesh Raj · Kim Jose · Alex Kitsos · Tim Saunder · Charlotte McKercher · Jan Radford
Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Victoria, 2006–18
A patient register and control program could help reduce the considerable morbidity and mortality caused by ARF and RHD
Jane Oliver · Myra Hardy · Joshua Osowicki · Daniel Engelman · Andrew C Steer · Katherine Gibney
Second SARS‐CoV‐2 infections twelve months after initial infections in Australia, confirmed by genomic analysis
Awareness of the possibility of reinfection should be promoted to encourage vaccination, testing, and protective behaviours
The Victorian SARS‐CoV‐2 Reinfection Study Group
Cost‒utility analysis of breast reduction surgery for women with symptomatic breast hypertrophy
Healthcare systems in all Australian states should support access to surgery for both private and public patients
Tamara A Crittenden · Julie Ratcliffe · David I Watson · Christine Mpundu‐Kaambwa · Nicola R Dean
Incidence and causes of early unplanned readmission after hospitalisation with peripheral arterial disease in Australia and New Zealand
Early unplanned readmissions are often potentially preventable; averting them could improve clinical outcomes for people with PAD
Vanessa Woelk · Peter Speck · Billingsley Kaambwa · Robert A Fitridge · Isuru Ranasinghe
Lifestyle risks for chronic disease among Australian adolescents: a cross‐sectional survey
Screening by GPs for six major risk factors and brief interventions in primary care or schools may help
the Heath4Life team †
Increasing ICU capacity to accommodate higher demand during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Maximising the availability of trained staff and coordinated matching of ICU capacity with demand are urgently needed
Edward Litton · Sue Huckson · Shaila Chavan · Tamara Bucci · Anthony Holley · Evan Everest · Sean Kelly · Steven McGloughlin · Johnny Millar · Nhi Nguyen · Mark Nicholls · Paule Secombe · David Pilcher
Social and occupational outcomes for young people who attend early intervention mental health services: a longitudinal study
Young people need dynamic service models that emphasise multidisciplinary interventions and measurement-based care
Frank Iorfino · Joanne S Carpenter · Shane PM Cross · Jacob Crouse · Tracey A Davenport · Daniel F Hermens · Hannah Yee · Alissa Nichles · Natalia Zmicerevska · Adam Guastella · Elizabeth M Scott · Ian B Hickie
Barbiturate‐related hospitalisations, drug treatment episodes, and deaths in Australia, 2000‒2018
The major concern regarding barbiturate-related harm has shifted from accidental overdoses to their use in suicide
Shane Darke · Agata Chrzanowska · Gabrielle Campbell · Emma Zahra · Julia Lappin
The impact of re‐opening the international border on COVID‐19 hospitalisations in Australia: a modelling study
An ongoing pandemic response, beyond mass vaccination, will be required of political and health systems throughout 2022
Mark J Hanly · Timothy Churches · Oisin Fitzgerald · Jeffrey J Post · C Raina MacIntyre · Louisa Jorm
Early medical abortion services provided in Australian primary care
General practitioners should be supported to enable them to provide early medical abortion services
Asvini K Subasinghe · Kevin McGeechan · Jessica E Moulton · Luke E Grzeskowiak · Danielle Mazza
The readability of official public health information on COVID‐19
Public health information should be easily accessible to the general population
Olivia A Mac · Danielle M Muscat · Julie Ayre · Pinika Patel · Kirsten J McCaffery
Chemical analysis of fresh and aged Australian e‐cigarette liquids
Australian e-liquids contain a wide variety of chemicals for which information on inhalation toxicity is not available
Alexander Larcombe · Sebastien Allard · Paul Pringle · Ryan Mead‐Hunter · Natalie Anderson · Benjamin Mullins
Drivers of the summer influenza epidemic in New South Wales, 2018–19
Our findings prompted a local health campaign promoting influenza vaccination before travelling overseas during the Australian summer
Celeste K Marsh · Vicky Sheppeard · Sean Tobin · Robin Gilmour · Ross M Andrews
OPTIMISE: a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of an intervention to improve primary care for refugees in Australia
Low intensity practice facilitation improves aspects of primary care for people from refugee backgrounds
Grant M Russell · Katrina Long · Virginia Lewis · Joanne C Enticott · Nilakshi Gunatillaka · I‐Hao Cheng · Geraldine Marsh · Shiva Vasi · Jenny Advocat · Shoko Saito · Hyun Song · Sue Casey · Mitchell Smith · Mark F Harris
Gun violence in Australia, 2002–2016: a cohort study
Focusing on people at particular risk of self-harm and assault with firearms could reduce injury and death rates
Joel Negin · Jane Bell · Lorraine Ivancic · Philip Alpers · Natasha Nassar
Sex differences in the management and outcomes of non‐ST‐elevation acute coronary syndromes
Adherence to guideline-based therapy for people with NSTEACS could be improved in Australia
Bianca C Bachelet · Karice Hyun · Mario D'Souza · Clara K Chow · Julie Redfern · David B Brieger
Adding saliva testing to oropharyngeal and deep nasal swab testing increases PCR detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 in primary care and children
Saliva may be suitable as a stand-alone test specimen for people aged 10 years or more
Jane Oliver · Shidan Tosif · Lai‐yang Lee · Anna‐Maria Costa · Chelsea Bartel · Katherine Last · Vanessa Clifford · Andrew Daley · Nicole Allard · Catherine Orr · Ashley Nind · Karyn Alexander · Niamh Meagher · Michelle Sait · Susan A Ballard · Eloise Williams · Katherine Bond · Deborah A Williamson · Nigel W Crawford · Katherine B Gibney
Failures of quarantine systems for preventing COVID‐19 outbreaks in Australia and New Zealand
Quarantine systems required to manage increasing proportions of returning travellers infected with SARS-CoV-2 need improving
Leah Grout · Ameera Katar · Driss Ait Ouakrim · Jennifer A Summers · Amanda Kvalsvig · Michael G Baker · Tony Blakely · Nick Wilson
The value of clinical breast examination in a breast cancer surveillance program for women with germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations
Clinical breast examination can safely be omitted from breast cancer screening of women with BRCA1/2 mutations
Tamara Hettipathirana · Courtney Macdonald · Jing Xie · Kate Moodie · Chris Michael · Kelly‐Anne Phillips
The clinical value of “exception item” colonoscopy (MBS item 32228)
About one in five “exception” colonoscopies detect and excise advanced pre-cancerous polyps
Michelle Lee See · Antonio Lee · Roderick Roberts · Richard A Friedman · David G Hewett · Daniel L Worthley
Telehealth sexual and reproductive health care during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Removing MBS rebate restrictions for telehealth consultations would enhance sexual and reproductive health services access
Yan Cheng · Clare Boerma · Lucy Peck · Jessica R Botfield · Jane Estoesta · Kevin McGeechan
The incidence of cardiac complications in patients hospitalised with COVID‐19 in Australia: the AUS‐COVID study
Clinical cardiac complications were reassuringly uncommon among more than 600 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19
on behalf of the AUS‐COVID Investigators
Modelling direct and herd protection effects of vaccination against the SARS‐CoV‐2 Delta variant in Australia
Herd protection is unlikely unless vaccination is extended to younger children or combined with other mitigation measures
Emma S McBryde · Michael T Meehan · Jamie M Caldwell · Adeshina I Adekunle · Samson T Ogunlade · MD Abdul Kuddus · Romain Ragonnet · Pavithra Jayasundara · James M Trauer · Robert C Cope