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The national Cardiovascular Health Leadership Research Forum: a new data‐driven model placing research at the centre of improving patient outcomes
Harnessing research resources to tackle key health challenges can accelerate implementation and drive new preventive and therapeutic strategies, positively affecting patient and economic outcomes
For the Cardiovascular National Health Leaders Research Forum Writing Group
Living with long COVID and its impact on family and society: a couple's view
Long COVID affects society in many ways, including the workforce and voluntary roles
Karlie M Flannigan · Gerard M Flannigan
Redrawing Australia's next National Health Reform Agreement: confronting the wickedest of wicked problems
Seven major policy barriers to overcome for successful reform of the health system under the next National Health Reform Agreement.
Claire L Jackson
Persistent symptoms after COVID‐19: an Australian stratified random health survey on long COVID
Improved community understanding of long COVID is required, and health systems need to develop clear pathways for treating patients, especially for those with persistent impairment
Alex Holmes · Lance Emerson · Louis B Irving · Emma Tippett · Jeffrey M Pullin · Julie Young · David A Watters · Adina Hamilton
Environmental footprinting in health care: a primer
Environmental sustainability should be considered as a dimension of quality, safety and good governance alongside patient and population health outcomes
Jacob Fry · Angie Bone · Keiichiro Kanemoto · Carolynn L Smith · Nick Watts
Hospital costs of COVID‐19, post‐COVID‐19 condition and other viral pneumonias: a cost comparison analysis
COVID-19 has introduced an additional and significant caseload to the health care system, diverting resources from other areas of the system
Danielle Hitch · Mary Rose Angeles · Eric Lau · Kelli Nicola‐Richmond · Catherine Bennett · Catherine M Said · Sara Holton · Kimberley Haines · Bodil Rasmussen · Genevieve Pepin · Kieva Richards · Martin Hensher
The economic burden of long COVID in Australia: more noise than signal?
Regular, high quality surveillance data are an essential but lacking ingredient in Australia’s policy response to long COVID
Mary Rose Angeles · Thi Thu Ngan Dinh · Ting Zhao · Barbara Graaff · Martin Hensher
Notification of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in hospitalised people in the Midwest region of Western Australia, 2012–2022: retrospective administrative data analysis
Clinician awareness of notification requirements and automated technology that facilitates ARF/RHD notifications are needed
Ingrid Stacey · Yolande Knight · Claire MX Ong · Amy Lee · Suresh Karuppannan · Allison Christou · Judith M Katzenellenbogen
An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care
Proposal of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescent model of primary health care that focuses on health and wellbeing needs
Stephen Harfield · Peter Azzopardi · Gita D Mishra · James S Ward
Harming those we intend to help: hospital‐acquired complications in patients with dementia
High quality care for patients with dementia should be promoted as core business for hospital staff
Emily H Gordon · Ruth E Hubbard
The likelihood of hospital‐acquired complications in older people with dementia: a matched cohort study
Targeted models of person-centred care are needed to ensure the best outcomes for people with dementia who are admitted to hospital
Danielle Ní Chróinín · Vicki Deane · Rinsy Pulikotil Zachariah · Katrina Stott · Bernadette Shepherd · Margaret Perkins · Leesa Giang · Rozina Shekhar · Vaulina Vueti · Mandana Mayahi‐Neysi · Amy Montgomery · Kaye Rolls · Steven A Frost
Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population‐based study
High level acute clinical care, provided for about two-thirds of hip fractures, was associated with lower short and longer term mortality
Lara Harvey · Morag E Taylor · Ian A Harris · Rebecca J Mitchell · Ian D Cameron · Pooria Sarrami · Jacqueline Close
A community within social and ecological communities: a new philosophical foundation for a just residential aged care sector
Residential aged care: proposing a shift to communities within social and ecological communities
Lachlan Green · Bridget Pratt · David Kirchhoffer
Towards evidence‐based skin checks
Discussion of a more evidence-based approach to skin checks, including who to target for skin checks, what type of skin check, how often, the clinical setting, and resources, costs and quality frameworks
Linda K Martin · Pascale Guitera · Georgina V Long · Richard A Scolyer · Anne E Cust
Recruitment and retention of new doctors in remote and Aboriginal medical services through the Remote Vocational Training Scheme's Targeted Recruitment Strategy: a focus group study
The Targeted Recruitment Strategy is a proactive collaborative approach to attract and support doctors to train as general practitioners in high need rural and remote areas
Belinda G O'Sullivan · Veeraja Uppal · Ronda Gurney · Patrick Giddings
Perceived stakeholder benefits of continuously training general practitioners in the same rural or remote practice: interviews exploring the Remote Vocational Training Scheme
The RVTS model of training doctors continuously in the same practice improves access to safe and high quality longitudinal care and contributes to service enhancements in rural, remote and First Nations communities that otherwise lack stable doctors
Belinda G O'Sullivan · Patrick Giddings · Matthew R McGrail
Concurrent use of hormonal long‐acting reversible contraception by women of reproductive age dispensed teratogenic medications, Australia, 2013–2021: a retrospective cohort study
Awareness of the importance of hormonal contraception and its uptake by women prescribed category X medications should be increased
Luke E Grzeskowiak · Vivienne Moore · Kelly Hall · Jenni Ilomäki · Danielle Schoenaker · Elizabeth Lovegrove · Danielle Mazza · Kirsten I Black · Debra S Kennedy · Michael J Davies · Alice Rumbold
General practitioners’ views and experiences of postpartum contraception counselling and provision: a qualitative–descriptive study
General practitioners are well placed to facilitate discussions about contraception with women who have recently given birth
Jenna K Perkins · Sharon James · Danielle Mazza · Jessica R Botfield
Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in Australia: current and future perspectives
Naomi CA Whyler · Sushena Krishnaswamy · Michelle L Giles
Cost barriers to medication access in Australia: an analysis of the Patient Experience Survey in context
Medicines are less affordable for women, the ill, the young, and the socio-economically disadvantaged
Narcyz Ghinea
30/60/90 National stroke targets and stroke unit access for all Australians: it's about time
Australia’s stroke treatment performance has stagnated. A well targeted national quality improvement effort is required
For the 30/60/90 National Stroke Targets Taskforce
Leave no‐one behind: reducing health disparities for women experiencing homelessness in Australia
Poor health outcomes and barriers to health care access are underscored by the struggles of homelessness itself, along with many social determinants of health, including trauma, poverty and social exclusion
Lisa J Wood · Rhiannon C Villiers
Non‐index hospital re‐admissions after hospitalisation with acute myocardial infarction and geographic remoteness, New South Wales, 2005–2020: a retrospective cohort study
Non-index hospital re-admission is associated with reduced mortality for people from regional or remote areas
Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon · Jennifer Yu · Art Sedrakyan · Sze‐Yuan Ooi · Louisa Jorm
Hospital costs for unplanned re‐admissions within 30 days of hospitalisations with heart failure, Australia, 2013–2017: a retrospective cohort study
Reducing the number of unplanned re-admissions could improve outcomes for people with heart failure and reduce hospital costs
Trang Dang · Wandy Chan · Sunnya Khawaja · James Fryar · Brenda Gannon · Sanjeewa Kularatna · William Parsonage · Isuru Ranasinghe
The health and economic burden of breathlessness, Australia, 2019: a national survey
Breathlessness imposes major burdens on individuals, the health care system, and the economy
Anthony P Sunjaya · Leanne M Poulos · Gian Luca Di Tanna · Thomas Lung · Guy B Marks · Helen K Reddel · Christine R Jenkins