Common barriers and enablers to the use of non-drug interventions for...
Non-drug interventions are recommended for chronic condition prevention and management yet are underused in clinical practice. Understanding barriers and enablers to using non-drug interventions may...
View ArticleRisk of early revision in total hip arthroplasty: the relative contribution...
Early revision for total hip arthroplasty is a serious adverse outcome. There are multiple contributing risk factors for early revision. Risk factors can exist at the level of the surgeon and the level...
View ArticleManual therapy and exercise for lateral elbow pain – Jason A Wallis et al.
Compared with placebo (sham) manual therapy, manual therapy may reduce pain and disability at the end of treatment. Longer‐term effects are unknown. Compared with minimal or no treatment, manual...
View ArticleEditorial: Navigating low-value care in regional, rural and remote Australia...
Occasions of low-value care (LVC) are those that confer little or no benefit to the patient or where harm (including lost treatment opportunity and financial cost) exceeds likely benefit. While it is...
View ArticleLess is more for greener intensive care – Katy J. L. Bell & Rachel Stancliffe
Climate change threatens human health and increases demand for healthcare. Global temperature is rising in near linear relationship with increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere, bringing...
View ArticleThe Carbon Footprint of Peritoneal Dialysis in Australia – Scott McAlister et...
As climate change escalates with increasing health impacts, healthcare must address its carbon footprint. A critical first step is understanding the sources and extent of emissions from commonly...
View ArticleClinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas...
The delivery of modern healthcare is inadvertently exacerbating illness and injury to populations through its own pollution. The global healthcare sector—health services and its medical supply chain—is...
View ArticleUpdating the Data: The Resource Consumption of Modern-Day Hemodialysis...
A pressing need exists for hemodialysis resource usage data based on current-day practice and hemodialysis systems. Accordingly, this study aimed to measure and compare the water and energy...
View ArticlePatients’ perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons...
Transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries emerged as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency and/or pelvic organ prolapse in 1996. Years after rapid adoption of these surgeries into practice,...
View ArticleAccounts of harm and conflicts of interest in transvaginal mesh: Professional...
Transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries were introduced as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency (SUI) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in 1996. Years after rapid adoption of these...
View ArticleA summary of the 2023 Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New...
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) affect up to 10% of all pregnancies annually and are associated with an increased risk of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. This guideline represents...
View ArticleBlood gas sampling in the intensive care unit: A prospective before-and-after...
Blood gas analysis is the most commonly ordered test in the intensive care unit. Each investigation, however, comes with risks and costs to the patient and healthcare system. Evidence suggests that...
View ArticleSocial Media Promotion of Health Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis or...
In recent years, social media have emerged as important spaces for commercial marketing of health tests, which can be used for the screening and diagnosis of otherwise generally healthy people....
View ArticleHow often are infusion sets for central venous catheters changed in...
Infusion sets (comprising the tubing, measuring burettes, fluid containers, transducers) that are connected to invasive vascular devices are changed on a regular basis in an effort to reduce bacterial...
View ArticleRisk of Iron Deficiency in Women With Endometriosis: A Population-Based...
Endometriosis may be linked to the risk of iron deficiency through chronic systemic inflammation or heavy menstrual bleeding. No longitudinal studies, however, have examined the relationship between...
View ArticleLifestyle advice from general practitioners and changes in health-related...
Lifestyle factors — smoking, alcohol consumption, inadequate dietary levels of fruit and vegetables — are major risk factors for chronic medical conditions. The importance of clinicians encouraging...
View ArticleEliminate all risks: A call to reexamine the link between canine scabies and...
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and acute rheumatic fever (ARF) disproportionately affect individuals in low-resource settings. ARF is attributed to an immune response to Group A Streptococcus (GAS)...
View ArticleAnti-inflammatories as adjunct treatment for cellulitis: a systematic review...
Existing guideline recommendations suggest considering corticosteroids for adjunct treatment of cellulitis, but this is based on a single trial with low certainty of evidence. The objective was to...
View ArticleEstimating a Minimal Important Difference for the EQ-5D-5L Utility Index in...
The EQ-5D-5L is a commonly used health-related quality of life instrument for evaluating interventions in patients receiving dialysis; however, the minimal important difference (MID) that constitutes a...
View ArticleExploring the factors impacting choice and quality of overnight private...
Patient reported experience measures (PREMs) are tools often utilised in hospitals to support quality improvements and to provide objective feedback on care experiences. Less commonly PREMs can be used...
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