Factors influencing the time to diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer...
Shorter time from symptoms recognition to diagnosis and timely treatment would be expected to improve the survival of patients with breast cancer (BC). This review identifies and summarizes evidence on...
View ArticleThe effectiveness of telehealth versus face-to face interventions for anxiety...
Worldwide, it is estimated that 264 million people meet the diagnostic criteria for anxiety conditions. Effective treatment regimens consist of cognitive and behavioural therapies. During the COVID-19...
View ArticleHip-specific and generic patient-reported outcome measure scores after...
The ability to efficiently identify patients at higher risk of poor outcomes after joint replacement would enable limited resources for post-operative follow-up to be directed to those with the...
View ArticleChildren’s voices must be included in policy development to mitigate...
Abbasi’s assertion of “society’s betrayal of children, their health, and our future” and the appalling decline in child health is sobering. The International Network for Epidemiology in Policy (INEP)...
View ArticleVigilance in infectious disease emergencies: Expanding the concept – Jane...
Protecting the health of the public, during a crisis or otherwise, is almost always considered the responsibility of governments. Analyses of institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate...
View ArticleThe Conversation – Evidence doesn’t support spinal cord stimulators for...
In an episode of ABC’s Four Corners this week, the use of spinal cord stimulators for chronic back pain was brought into question. Spinal cord stimulators are devices implanted surgically which deliver...
View ArticleABC iView – Pain Factory
A recent Four Corners story ‘Pain Factory’ featured Prof Ian Harris and covered a Cochrane review by Adrian Traeger, Chris Maher and team. The program dealt with a range of factors central to Wiser...
View ArticleResearch Bytes – Are opioids more harm than help for back pain?
Dr Caitlin Jones aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of opioids for low back pain, and uncovered some interesting findings in her research. Dr Caitlin Jones unpacks her findings in this latest...
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Wiser Healthcare’s Response to the Australian Government Productivity...
Prof Katy Bell on behalf of Wiser Healthcare has issued the following response to the Productivity Commission’s 2024 Advances in Measuring Healthcare Productivity Research Paper. This response was...
View ArticleCongratulations to Prof Rachelle Buchbinder elected as a 2024 Fellow of the...
Distinguished researcher Professor Rachelle Buchbinder AO FAA FAHMS has been elected a 2024 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Professor Buchbinder has been recognised for her sustained...
View ArticlePrevention Works Podcast – How health literacy can combat misinformation and...
The Prevention Centre featured the work of A/Prof Carissa Bonner and PhD Researcher Melody Taba on their podcast Prevention Works. Listen to Carissa and Melody discuss health literacy codesign and...
View ArticleHow Much Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, and Osteopathy Care Do Compensated...
We identified that over 80% of Australian workers with accepted workers’ compensation claims for low back pain longer than 2 weeks attended physiotherapists, chiropractors, and/or osteopaths in the...
View ArticlePatterns of physiotherapy attendance in compensated Australian workers with...
Workers with low back pain (LBP) frequently seek care from physiotherapists. We sought to identify patterns of physiotherapy attendance and factors associated with these patterns in Australian workers...
View ArticleIt’s OK to Move! Effect of a Brief Video on Community Confidence in Activity...
Participants aged 18 years and over, with and without low back pain, were recruited via the social media channel Facebook, to view either a humorous video, a neutral video, or to no intervention. The...
View ArticleSecular trends in gabapentinoid dispensing by compensated workers with low...
The management of low back pain commonly includes pharmacological management. Some clinical practice guidelines for managing low back pain now recommend avoiding some medicines, such as opioid...
View ArticleParticipant recruitment and attrition in surgical randomised trials with...
Placebo control trials are the gold standard for determining the true therapeutic effect of interventions. However, placebo trials commonly face difficulties in participant recruitment due to a lack of...
View ArticleApplying the Milan models to setting analytical performance specifications –...
Analytical performance specifications (APS) are used for decisions about the required analytical quality of pathology tests to meet clinical needs. The Milan models, based on clinical outcome,...
View ArticleEffectiveness of implementation strategies for increasing clinicians’ use of...
Strategies to enhance clinicians’ adherence to validated imaging decision rules and increase the appropriateness of imaging remain unclear. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness...
View ArticleImplementation of supplemental physiotherapy following hip fracture surgery:...
Patient outcomes following low-trauma hip fracture are suboptimal resulting in increased healthcare costs and poor functional outcomes at 1 year. Providing early and intensive in-hospital physiotherapy...
View ArticleCommunicating the Imperfect Diagnostic Accuracy of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen...
We found strong evidence that health literacy–sensitive formatting supported participant understanding and recall of diagnostic accuracy information for a COVID-19 RAT. More than double the...
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