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'Closing the loop': the role of health care leaders in integrating research and practice

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

A dog walking on its hind legs? Implications of the CareTrack study

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

A medication review and deprescribing method for hospitalised older patients receiving multiple medications.

scientific article published on 20 September 2015

A multifaceted intervention to reduce inappropriate polypharmacy in primary care: research co-creation opportunities in a pilot study

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

A review of hospital characteristics associated with improved performance

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Achieving greater clinician engagement and impact in health care improvement: a neglected imperative

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Adherence to guideline-based antibiotic treatment for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in an Australian tertiary hospital.

scientific article published in September 2014

Aiming to be NEAT: safely improving and sustaining access to emergency care in a tertiary referral hospital

scientific article published in November 2014

Algorithm of medication review in frail older people: Focus on minimizing the use of high-risk medications.

scientific article published on 03 September 2015

An Australian comparison of specialist care of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

An adverse event screening tool based on routinely collected hospital-acquired diagnoses

scientific article published on 16 April 2012

Analysing low-risk patient populations allows better discrimination between high-performing and low-performing hospitals: a case study using inhospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on October 2007

Are diagnosis specific outcome indicators based on administrative data useful in assessing quality of hospital care?

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Are thiazide diuretics preferred as first-line therapy for hypertension? An appraisal of The Antihypertensive and Lipid-lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT).

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Arise the systems physician.

scientific article published in December 2014

Assessing clinical reasoning: a method to monitor its development in a PBL curriculum

scientific article published in September 2002

Assessing concordance between patient preferences in advance care plans and in-hospital care

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Association of renin angiotensin antagonists with adverse perioperative events in patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery: a case-control study.

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Audit of consultant physicians' reply letters for referrals to clinics in a tertiary teaching hospital.

scientific article published in January 2004

Audit-based measures of overuse of medical care in Australian hospital practice

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

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scientific article published on 01 August 2015

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scientific article published on 01 December 2020

COVID-19 pandemic and the tension between the need to act and the need to know

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Can AI help in the fight against COVID-19?

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Cautionary tales in the clinical interpretation of studies of diagnostic tests.

scientific article published on 23 July 2007

Cautionary tales in the clinical interpretation of trials assessing therapy-induced changes in health status.

scientific article published on May 2011

Cautionary tales in the interpretation of observational studies of effects of clinical interventions.

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Cautionary tales in the interpretation of systematic reviews of therapy trials.

scientific article published on September 2006

Chronic disease management: time for consultant physicians to take more leadership in system redesign.

scientific article published on September 2007

Clinical practice guidelines: perspectives of clinicians in Queensland public hospitals

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Cognitive challenges to minimising low value care.

scientific article published on September 2017

Comparative effectiveness research — the missing link in evidence‐informed clinical medicine and health care policy making

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Corrigendum to 'National Heart Foundation of Australia & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes 2016' Heart Lung and Circulation volume 25, (2016) 898 - 952.

scientific article published in October 2017

Countering cognitive biases in minimising low value care.

scientific article published on May 2017

Data linkage: a powerful research tool with potential problems

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Deciding when quality and safety improvement interventions warrant widespread adoption

scientific article published on May 6, 2013

Deciding when to stop: towards evidence-based deprescribing of drugs in older populations

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

Deconstructing the 4-h rule for access to emergency care and putting patients first

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Deliberate clinical inertia: Using meta-cognition to improve decision-making

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Derivation and validation of a risk score for predicting mortality among inpatients following rapid response team activation

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Developing indicators for measuring low-value care: mapping Choosing Wisely recommendations to hospital data

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Diagnostic error: incidence, impacts, causes and preventive strategies

scientific article published on 20 September 2020

Diagnostic errors in older patients: a systematic review of incidence and potential causes in seven prevalent diseases

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Diagnostic sensitivity of carbohydrate deficient transferrin in heavy drinkers

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Differential effect of socioeconomic status on rates of invasive coronary procedures across the public and private sectors in Queensland, Australia.

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Difficult but necessary conversations--the case for advance care planning.

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Dose counter performance of mometasone furoate/formoterol inhalers in subjects with asthma or COPD.

scientific article published on 12 March 2011

Dysregulation of calcium metabolism in type 1 myotonic dystrophy

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Effectiveness of acute medical units in hospitals: a systematic review

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Effects of eHealth on hospital practice: synthesis of the current literature

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Enabling the success of academic health science centres in Australia: where is the leadership?

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Ensuring access to invasive care for all patients with acute coronary syndromes: beyond our reach?

scientific article published on August 2016

Ethics and site-specific governance approvals for multi-centre, inter-sector health care research

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Evaluating cardiovascular risk assessment for asymptomatic people.

scientific article published on 05 January 2009

Evaluation and outcomes of patients admitted to a tertiary medical assessment unit with acute chest pain of possible coronary origin.

scientific article published on 13 October 2013

Evaluation of iron deficiency anaemia in tertiary hospital settings: room for improvement?

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Evidence-based medicine and machine learning: a partnership with a common purpose

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Fatal human melioidosis acquired in a subtropical Australian city

scientific article published on October 1, 2001

Filling the glass of evidence-based medicine

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

First do no harm: a real need to deprescribe in older patients

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Foregoing low-value care: how much evidence is needed to change beliefs?

scientific article published in February 2013

Going Beyond the Guidelines in Individualising the Use of Antihypertensive Drugs in Older Patients

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Going digital: a checklist in preparing for hospital-wide electronic medical record implementation and digital transformation

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Going digital: a narrative overview of the clinical and organisational impacts of eHealth technologies in hospital practice

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Going digital: a narrative overview of the effects, quality and utility of mobile apps in chronic disease self-management

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Health services research: what is it and what does it offer?

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High sensitivity-troponin elevation secondary to non-coronary diagnoses and death and recurrent myocardial infarction: An examination against criteria of causality.

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Highly sensitive troponin assays--a two-edged sword?

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Hope, hype and harms of Big Data

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Hospital discharge summary scorecard: a quality improvement tool used in a tertiary hospital general medicine service.

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How much end-of-life care is of low value

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Hypothalamic/pituitary sarcoidosis

scientific article published on 01 April 1987

Impact of hospital-wide process redesign on clinical outcomes: a comparative study of internally versus externally led intervention.

scientific article published on 8 March 2011

Improving access and equity in reducing cardiovascular risk: the Queensland Health model.

scientific article published on February 2015

Improving clinical practice: what works and what doesn't?

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Improving effectiveness of clinical medicine: the need for better translation of science into practice

Improving the accuracy of predicting cardiovascular risk

scientific article published on 13 May 2010

Improving the effectiveness of clinical medicine: the need for better science

scientific article published on March 19, 2012

In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low-value care.

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Local thrombolysis or rapid transfer for primary angioplasty for patients presenting with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction to hospitals without angioplasty facilities

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Looking for value in health care

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Low-value care in Australian public hospitals: prevalence and trends over time

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Machine Learning and Evidence-Based Medicine

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Machine learning in clinical practice: prospects and pitfalls

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Measuring 21 low-value hospital procedures: claims analysis of Australian private health insurance data (2010-2014)

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Medical practice: where next?

scientific article published in November 2001

Medication use and cognitive impairment among residents of aged care facilities

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Minimizing inappropriate medications in older populations: a 10-step conceptual framework

scientific article published on 03 March 2012

Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) for health technology assessment: the Queensland Health experience

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

National Emergency Access Targets metrics of the emergency department-inpatient interface: measures of patient flow and mortality for emergency admissions to hospital.

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

National Heart Foundation of Australia & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes 2016

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian clinical guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2016.

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Negotiating "Unmeasurable Harm and Benefit": Perspectives of General Practitioners and Consultant Pharmacists on Deprescribing in the Primary Care Setting.

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Normalising advance care planning in a general medicine service of a tertiary hospital: an exploratory study

scientific article published in September 2016

On the need for probity when physicians interact with industry.

scientific article published in April 2006

Optimising care of acute coronary syndromes in three Australian hospitals.

scientific article published in August 2004

Optimising care of acute myocardial infarction: results of a regional quality improvement project

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Optimising care of the hospitalised elderly. A literature review and suggestions for future research.

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Optimizing care for acute medical patients: the Australasian Medical Assessment Unit Survey.

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Optimizing quality of care: the journey continues

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Patient characteristics, interventions and outcomes of 1151 rapid response team activations in a tertiary hospital: a prospective study.

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Pay for performance programs in Australia: a need for guiding principles.

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Perioperative management of new oral anticoagulants in patients undergoing elective surgery at a tertiary hospital.

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Physicians need to take the lead in advance care planning

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Physicians need to take the lead in deprescribing.

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Pill testing at music festivals: is it evidence-based harm reduction?

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Polypharmacy among inpatients aged 70 years or older in Australia

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Polypharmacy, deprescribing and shared decision-making in primary care: the role of the accredited pharmacist

Preoperative cardiac evaluation and management of patients undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery

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Prescriber barriers and enablers to minimising potentially inappropriate medications in adults: a systematic review and thematic synthesis.

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Prescribing for older people discharged from the acute sector to residential aged-care facilities.

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Prescribing in the oldest old inpatients: a retrospective analysis of patients referred for specialist geriatric consultation.

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Preventing the rebound: improving care transition in hospital discharge processes

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Providing palliative care closer to home: a retrospective analysis from a remote Australian hospital

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Public hospital bed crisis: too few or too misused?

scientific article published on August 2010

Putting professionalism and delivery of value-added healthcare at the heart of physician training and continuing professional development.

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Quality of care factors associated with unplanned readmissions of older medical patients: a case-control study

scientific article published on 01 February 2014

Quality of care of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes.

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Raising the bar on guideline utility and trustworthiness

scientific article published in June 2017

Rapid response teams in adult hospitals: time for another look?

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Received care compared to ADP-guided care of patients admitted to hospital with chest pain of possible cardiac origin

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

Reducing Medical Admissions into Hospital through Optimising Medicines (REMAIN HOME) Study: protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Reducing inappropriate polypharmacy: the process of deprescribing

scientific article published on May 2015

Report on the 4-h rule and National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) in Australia: time to review

scientific article published on 05 October 2015

Response to: 'Sentinel lymph node biopsy for in situ melanoma is unlikely in Australia' by Morton and Thompson

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Review of structured guides for deprescribing.

scientific article published in January 2017

Routine invasive strategies versus selective invasive strategies for unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction in the stent era

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SAFety, Effectiveness of care and Resource use among Australian Hospitals (SAFER Hospitals): a protocol for a population-wide cohort study of outcomes of hospital care

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Selected state of the art research in internal medicine, 2017

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Sneddon's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 December 1986

Statistical and clinical significance.

scientific article published in August 2017

Stranded: causes and effects of discharge delays involving non-acute in-patients requiring maintenance care in a tertiary hospital general medicine service.

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Systematic review of integrated models of health care delivered at the primary-secondary interface: how effective is it and what determines effectiveness?

scientific article published on 02 September 2015

Ten clinician-driven strategies for maximising value of Australian health care.

scientific article published in May 2014

The ED-inpatient dashboard: Uniting emergency and inpatient clinicians to improve the efficiency and quality of care for patients requiring emergency admission to hospital.

scientific article published on 4 September 2016

The National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) and the 4-hour rule: time to review the target.

scientific article published on May 2016

The appropriateness of coronary investigation in myocardial injury and type 2 myocardial infarction (ACT-2): A randomized trial design

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The changing face of cardiovascular care in Australia.

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The gaps in specialists' diagnoses

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

The use of evidence-based medicine in the practice of consultant physicians. Results of a questionnaire survey

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

The value of evidence-based medicine to consultant physicians

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Thigh circumference and risk of heart disease and premature death

scientific article published on 03 September 2009

Thrombolysis in acute stroke: ongoing challenges based on a tertiary hospital audit and comparisons with other Australian studies

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Triage of referrals to outpatient hepatology services: an ineffective tool to prioritise patients?

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Underuse of risk assessment and overuse of computed tomography pulmonary angiography in patients with suspected pulmonary thromboembolism

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Uniting emergency and inpatient clinicians across the ED-inpatient interface: The last frontier?

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Use of benzodiazepines and association with falls in older people admitted to hospital: a prospective cohort study.

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Use of standardised assessment forms in referrals to hepatology outpatient services: implications for accurate triaging of patients with chronic hepatitis C

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

Using EMR-enabled computerized decision support systems to reduce prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications: a narrative review

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Using clinical indicators in a quality improvement programme targeting cardiac care.

scientific article published on April 2004

Using computed tomography coronary angiography to evaluate patients with acute chest pain: putting the horse before the cart

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

WESTCOP: a disease management approach to coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

What does the future hold? The need to engage in discussions around prognosis

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When financial incentives do more good than harm: a checklist

scientific article published on 13 August 2012

Who is less likely to die in association with improved National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) compliance for emergency admissions in a tertiary referral hospital?

scientific article published on 17 August 2015