BA, BEcons, BMBS, Grad Dip Clin Epi, PhD, FRACGP Dr Doust is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice in Bond University. Jenny has worked and trained as a general practitioner, clinical epidemiologist and economist. She is a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the Economic Sub-Committee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the Cochrane Collaboration working group on Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy, and was previously chair of the RACGP working group for the curriculum review of Chronic Conditions and chair of the Thomas C Chalmers award for the Cochrane Collaboration. Her main research areas of interest are diagnosis, screening and evidence based practice in clinical practice.
Articles
Cardiovascular risk scores do not account for the effect of treatment: A review (with Su May Liew and Paul Glasziou), Heart (2011)
Objective To compare the strengths and limitations of cardiovascular risk scores available for clinicians in...
Diagnosis of heart failure in primary care (with F. D. R. Hobbs, J. Mant, and M. R. Cowie), Heart (2010)
Extract:
Heart failure is a syndrome resulting from a structural or functional cardiac disorder. For...
Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: A systematic review (with Geoffrey K. Spurling, Peter R. Mansfield, Brett D. Montgomery, Joel Lexchin, Noordin Othman, and Agnes I. Vitry), PLoS medicine (2010)
Background: Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004....
Qualification versus validation of biomarkers, Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation (2010)
The phases of research used to evaluate new drugs provide a useful reference point for...
Diagnosis in general practice: Using probabilistic reasoning, BMJ (2009)
Diagnostic tests—whether clinical signs, imaging, or laboratory tests—are imperfect: there is always a possibility that...
Books
Clinical thinking: Evidence, communication and decision-making (with Chris Del Mar and Paul Glasziou), Health Sciences & Medicine papers (2006)
Clinicians are taught masses of facts, but not how to use them in the messy...
Book Chapters
Teaching evidence based laboratory medicine (with Sharon Sanders), Evidence based laboratory medicine: Principles, practice, and outcomes (2007)
Models of disease (with Chris Del Mar and Paul Glasziou), Clinical thinking: evidence, communication, and decision-making (2006)
[Excerpt] What we will do here is set out some models of disease, and then...
Conference Papers
Presenting a simplified assistant tool for breast cancer diagnosis in mammography to radiologists (with Ping Zhang and Kuldeep Kumar), 2nd International conference on medical biometrics: ICMB 2010 (2010)
This paper proposes a method to simplify a computational model from logistic regression for clinical...