… Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 6 National Education Symposium on Blistering Diseases, Sydney, NSW … Trials in Intensive Care, Noosa, QLD 11 5th International Medical Symposium: Future Challenges for the Medical Profession, Sydney, NSW 11-12 Urogynaecological …
Adrian J Cameron, David W Dunstan, Neville Owen, Paul Z Zimmet, Elizabeth L M Barr, Andrew M Tonkin, Dianna J Magliano, Shirley G Murray, Timothy A Welborn and Jonathan E Shaw
… over the previous week, smoking status and the level of education achieved were assessed with a questionnaire … telephone. Fourteen of those interviewed did not consent to medical record adjudication or had incomplete myocardial … infarction was ascertained by physician adjudication of medical records according to WHO MONICA (Multinational …
Stephanie L Harrison, Janet K Sluggett, Catherine Lang, Craig Whitehead, Maria Crotty, Megan Corlis, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio
… Understanding such changes is important for directing educational resources and quality improvement interventions … person‐centred interventions, including adequate support, education and training of care staff, improve psychotropic … services to the needs of individual RACFs and can include education and audit and feedback about psychotropic drug …
… of their life received “invasive and potentially harmful medical treatments”. The analysis of 38 studies over 2 … found that the practice of doctors initiating excessive medical or surgical treatment on elderly patients in the … death rose with increasing survey scores. Women without an education beyond high school were disproportionately …
Zinta Harrington, David P Thomas, Bart J Currie and Joy Bulkanhawuy
… I n the past, non-compliance with medical treatments has been attributed to patient behaviour, … lack of treatment uptake. Evidence for the role of patient education in promoting compliance is lacking. 3 - 6 … this may contribute to patients’ inability to comply with medical advice. 7 Rising rates of recurrent rheumatic fever …
Harvey L Coates, Peter S Morris, Amanda J Leach and Sophie Couzos
… is critical, requiring the provision of ongoing education about effective communication strategies and … the future? Greater community control over improvements to education, employment opportunities, housing infrastructure … strategies and interventions (including educational, medical, surgical and audiological initiatives). …
… deaths, according to research published online today by the Medical Journal of Australia . The authors from the Orygen, … Of those who died by suicide 879 (29%) were engaged in education and training at the time of death. “A recent …
… multidisciplinary teams are well placed to promote cancer education through advice on lifestyle changes, and this role … (about 390 000 people) reported that they currently had a medically diagnosed neoplasm; 87% of these were malignant. 4 … and found that half of them had continuing unmet non-medical needs. 21 These included psychological and financial …
Jane Desborough, Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Lucas Toca, Stephanie Davis, Leslee Roberts, Catherine Kelaher and Michael Kidd
… Care COVID‐19 Preparedness Forum, led by Australia's Chief Medical Officer and held on 6 March 2020 with representatives from general practice and other medical specialties, nursing, allied health, pathology, … prevention and control training A series of online education modules was created to provide consistent, …
… the Journal is to provide a scholarly forum for continuing education and informed debate on standards of clinical … latter is increasingly considered for inclusion in modern medical curricula. … Lessons from practice … Spirituality …
… 2 noted that an exploration of the merits of creating a new medical specialty for health care providers to Aboriginal … has not gained significant support from some existing medical colleges. Broadly, the arguments supporting a … structures satisfy training needs. In terms of academic education in relation to the health of Indigenous …
Samantha Bateman, Kelli Owen, Rhanee Lester, Odette Pearson, Paul Lawton, Stephen McDonald, Shilpa Jesudason and Philip A Clayton
… IQR, 45–61 years); the proportions with selected other medical conditions were smaller for waitlisted people than … of an intensive process of referral, assessment, patient education, counselling, health optimisation and maintenance, … Late referral to nephrology care 24 (19%) 54 (17%) Other medical conditions Previously/currently smoked 68 …
Amanda Barnard, C Dimity Pond and Timothy P Usherwood
… and sensory impairment compound the task of effective education and self-management. Spirometry is often more … of General Practice currently list an asthma project or education activity in their business plans (< … and to develop appropriate targeted screening and educational tools. We also need to find out how GPs go about …
… of health care. However, research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia shows that patient … health care, improved clinical guidelines, and training and education may reduce rates of complications attributable to …
… care services in Australia is presented in the Box . For medical staff, there is a need for adequate training … for inpatients continues to be a major issue. Clinical and educational support for primary care nurses in the community … specialist § 1.5 1.5 1.5 Registrar § 1.0 1.0 1.0 Resident medical officer 0 0 0.25 Liaison psychiatry 0.25 0.25 0.25 …
Imogen A Mitchell, Bobby Antoniou, Judith L Gosper, John Mollett, Mark D Hurwitz and Tracey L Bessell
… ( Box 1 ). The clinical reviewers would then screen the medical records of flagged cases for the presence of one or … process deeper into the institution. Additional junior medical officers, registrars, midwives, clinical nurse … procedure; communication between staff; and skills/education. The most frequently recurring system issues were …
Dan P Ewald, John A Eisman, Ben D Ewald, Tania M Winzenberg, Markus J Seibel, Peter R Ebeling, Leon A Flicker and Peter T Nash
… densitometry, as a basis for policy making and targeting of education. Bone densitometry is the “gold standard” for … to examine sex and rural versus urban differences, to guide education efforts and implementation of the guidelines, as … Practitioners, supervised by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and supported by …
Alan M Wolff, Jo Bourke, Ian A Campbell and David W Leembruggen
… Main outcome measures: Rates of adverse events detected by medical record review and clinical incident and general … the event recurring. Adverse events can be detected by medical record review 3 and clinical incident reporting. 4 … Visiting General Practitioner, and Director of Postgraduate Education. Reprints: Dr A M Wolff, Medical Administration, …
Geoff Schrader, Frida Cheok, Ann-Louise Hordacre, Julie Marker and Victoria Wade
… “Telephone advice” was provided for 39.9% and the “GP education only” intervention was provided in 36% of cases. … about the patient’s depression and its management, educational material, and ongoing clinical support. Main …