Articles
Tertiary survey performance in a regional trauma hospital without a dedicated trauma service (with Don Campbell, Jeffrey Hooper, Nerolie Bost, Julia Crilly, Michael Steele, Blake Eddington, and Leo M.G. Geeraedts Jr.), World Journal of Surgery (2011)
Background:
Initial management of trauma patients is focused on identifying life- and limb-threatening injuries and may...
The impact of a temporary medical ward closure on emergency department and hospital service delivery outcomes (with Julia Crilly, Dirken Krahn, Michael Steele, David Green, and Janeen Freeman), Quality Management in Health Care: an information service (2011)
OBJECTIVE: To describe the effect of a 3-week closure of a 28-bed medical ward on...
Predicting influenza A and 2009 H1N1 influenza in patients admitted to hospital with acute respiratory illness (with Caleb Nathaniel Kai-Lik Vossen, Ping Zhang, Deborough MacBeth, Petra Derrington, John Gregory Gerrard, and Jenny Doust), Emergency medicine journal (2011)
Objective: To create a clinical decision tool for suspected influenza A (including 2009 H1N1) to...
Linking ambulance, emergency department and hospital admissions data: Understanding the emergency journey (with Julia L. Crilly, John A. O'Dwyer, Marilla A. O'Dwyer, James F. Lind, Julia A.L. Peters, Vivienne C. Tippett, Marianne C. Wallis, and Nerolie F. Bost), Medical journal of Australia (2011)
Objective: To assess the accuracy of data linkage across the spectrum of emergency care in...
Prediction and surveillance of influenza epidemics (with Justin R. Boyle, Ross S. Sparks, Julia L. Crilly, James F. Lind, and Louise M. Ryan), Medical journal of Australia (2011)
Objective: To describe the use of surveillance and forecasting models to predict and track epidemics...
Doctors' knowledge of patient radiation exposure from diagnostic imaging requested in the emergency department (with Charles J. Britton), The medical journal of Australia (2010)
Objective: To assess emergency department (ED) doctors’ knowledge of radiation doses associated with diagnostic imaging...
Emergency care workload units: A novel tool to compare emergency department activity (with Audra Gedmintas, Nerolie Bost, David Green, and James Lind), Emergency medicine Australasia (2010)
Introduction: Funding bodies have traditionally used attendance figures as a way of determining the allocation...
Does a dedicated pediatric team within a busy mixed emergency department make a difference in waiting times, satisfaction, and care transition? (with Julia Crilly, Benjamin Walters, Rosalind Crawford, and Christa Bell), Pedatric emergency care (2010)
Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a dedicated, free-floating, pediatric-targeted care delivery model on emergency...
Nothing to sneeze at! A study into intra-operative contamination (with David Graham, Benjamin Parkinson, Meghan Evans, and Petra Derrington), ANZ Journal of surgery (2009)
Purpose: We performed a prospective study of sneezes from orthopaedic registrars to assess the potential...
The relationship between blood glucose level and QTc duration in the critically ill (with Ellen Burkett and James Lind), Critical care and resuscitation (2009)
Objective: To determine whether hyperglycaemia is associated with prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc) interval...
A survey of drug-dose calculation skills of Australian tertiary hospital doctors (with Chanelle M. Simpson and James F. Lind), The medical journal of Australia (2009)
Objective: To assess the ability of doctors to calculate drug doses and their workplace prescribing...
How would Australian hospital staff react to an avian influenza admission, or an influenza pandemic (with Franco Martinese, Steven Grant, and James Lind), Emergency medicine Australasia (2009)
Objective: To estimate the expected staff absentee rates and work attitudes in an Australian tertiary...
Potential for infection in orthopaedic practice due to individually packaged screws (with G. Smith, F. Vindenes, G. Keijzers, and A. Rando), Injury: International journal of the care of the injured (2009)
The use of implants is widespread in orthopaedic practice. In recent times screws and plates...
Clinical diagnostic criteria for isolating patients admitted to hospital with suspected pandemic influenza (with John Gerrard, Ping Zhang, Caleb Vossen, and Deborough Macbeth), The lancet (2009)
Extract: Australian hospitals have now experienced the first wave of pandemic H1N1 influenza during a...