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Global health Research 4 October 2021 Open Access

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

Infectious diseases Research 20 September 2021 Open Access

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

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Child health Research 16 August 2021 Free

The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children who presented to Australian hospitals during 2020: a PREDICT network study

Ambulatory monitoring or hospital in the home may reduce presentations and admissions to hospital of children with COVID-19

Laila F Ibrahim · Doris Tham · Vimuthi Chong · Mark Corden · Simon Craig · Paul Buntine · Shefali Jani · Michael Zhang · Shane George · Amit Kochar · Sharon O’Brien · Karen Robins‐Browne · Shidan Tosif · Andrew Daley · Sarah McNab · Nigel W Crawford · Catherine Wilson · Franz E Babl

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Health services administration Research 26 July 2021 Free

Public mental health service use by people with intellectual disability in New South Wales and its costs

Objectives: To describe the population characteristics of people with intellectual disability in New South Wales; to quantify and compare public mental health service use and costs for people with and without intellectual disability in NSW during 2014‒15. Design: Retrospective cohort data linkage analysis. Setting, participants: People using publicly funded in‐ or outpatient (admitted or non‐admitted) mental health services in NSW, 2014‒15. Main outcome measures: Numbers of bed days (inpatient mental health services), and treatment days (ambulatory mental health); costs of publicly funded mental health services. Results: People with intellectual disability comprised 1.1% of the NSW population, but 6.3% of people who used public mental health services; 12% of public mental health costs during 2014–15 were for people with intellectual disability. Compared with metropolitan local health districts (LHDs), overall public mental health service costs were lower for rural and regional LHDs (adjusted incidence rate ratio [aIRR], 0.8; 95% CI, 0.8–0.9) and higher for specialty networks (aIRR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1–1.3). Per person costs for people with intellectual disability were higher than for those without intellectual disability (aIRR, 2.6; 95% CI, 2.2–3.0). Conclusion: People with intellectual disability use public mental health services to a greater degree than other people. They should be explicitly considered by all tiers of mental health policy and service planning in Australia. Population health planning for the needs of people with disabilities would be assisted by including disability identifiers in all health administrative data sets.

Preeyaporn Srasuebkul · Rachael Cvejic · Theresa Heintze · Simone Reppermund · Julian N Trollor

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