The Bond University Sustainable Healthcare Awards have been developed with the purpose of promoting and raising awareness of best practice in high value health care and recognising the achievements of those in the community who are advocates and pioneers in this area. Sustainable Healthcare aims [...]
Genomics is an exciting field that lays the “book of life” open in front of us. It has great potential to improve our understanding of disease, sharpen our diagnostic capability, and provide targeted gene based therapies that could save lives. But with great potential comes [...]
Low-value care is not just a matter of waste, but also involves patient safety. Some patients admitted to hospital for a procedure that is unlikely to benefit them are being harmed. We measured 16 hospital-acquired complication in patients admitted for 1 of 7 low-value procedures [...]
One in four patients who presented to primary care with LBP received imaging as did one in three who presented to the emergency department. The rate of complex imaging appears to have increased over 21 years despite guideline advice and education campaigns.
This stufy found a strong and apparently widely held desire for more information surrounding the topic of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Careful consideration of how to inform both the public and current patients about the implications of a change in terminology, including changes to patients’ follow-up [...]
Subacromial pain syndrome is common and debilitating, often affecting sleep. Keyhole surgery that shaves away bone in the shoulder is a popular treatment choice — but it doesn’t perform any better than placebo and should be stopped, according to a new paper in the BMJ.
Do adults with atraumatic shoulder pain for more than 3 months diagnosed as subacromial pain syndrome (SAPS), also labelled as rotator cuff disease, benefit from subacromial decompression surgery? This guideline builds on to two recent high quality trials of shoulder surgery. The panel concluded that [...]
The childhood chant that "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never harm me" is full of bravado but is not always right. It rushes over the emotional and social impact often caused by naming. This impact is at the centre of [...]
Experts developing guidelines to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are the least likely to disclose their financial ties with drug companies, a study led by Bond University in Queensland has found. The first study in Australia to examine undisclosed financial relationships between drug [...]
In September, the New York Times revealed that one of the world’s top cancer specialists had quietly received millions of dollars from drug and other companies. And what’s more, he’d failed to disclose the payments in many of his high-profile medical journal articles. A few months before [...]
