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Lifestyle advice from general practitioners and changes in health-related behaviour in Australia: secondary analysis of 2020–21 National Health Survey data – Loai Albarqouni et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-12T17:42:22+10:00Clinical guidelines, Health professionals, Primary Care, Publications, Risk|

Lifestyle factors — smoking, alcohol consumption, inadequate dietary levels of fruit and vegetables — are major risk factors for chronic medical conditions. The importance of clinicians encouraging people to modify their lifestyles is emphasised in many guidelines. A study that included 4716 American adults found that patient-reported [...]

Risk of Iron Deficiency in Women With Endometriosis: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study – Dereje G. Gete et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-12T17:36:52+10:00Endometriosis, Publications, Risk, Treatment, Women's health|

Endometriosis may be linked to the risk of iron deficiency through chronic systemic inflammation or heavy menstrual bleeding. No longitudinal studies, however, have examined the relationship between endometriosis and the risk of iron deficiency. Iron deficiency is a major global concern that mainly affects women [...]

Blood gas sampling in the intensive care unit: A prospective before-and-after interventional study on the effect of an educational program on blood gas testing frequency – Benjamin Cunanan et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-12T13:21:23+10:00Carbon neutral, Overuse, Publications, Risk, Sustainable health care, Tests|

Blood gas analysis is the most commonly ordered test in the intensive care unit. Each investigation, however, comes with risks and costs to the patient and healthcare system. Evidence suggests that many tests are performed with no appropriate clinical indication.

A summary of the 2023 Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ) hypertension in pregnancy guideline – Renuka Shanmugalingam et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T15:54:34+10:00Cardiovascular disease, Clinical guidelines, Hypertension, Pregnancy, Publications, Risk, Screening, Women's health|

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) affect up to 10% of all pregnancies annually and are associated with an increased risk of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. This guideline represents an update of the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ) guidelines for [...]

Accounts of harm and conflicts of interest in transvaginal mesh: Professional evaluations during an Australian Senate Inquiry – Mina Motamedi, Chris Degeling & Stacy M. Carter

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T15:44:32+10:00Conflicts of interest, Publications, Risk, Surgery, Women's health|

Transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries were introduced as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency (SUI) and/or pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in 1996. Years after rapid adoption of these surgeries into practice, it emerged that TVM-associated adverse events were uncommon but potentially severe. This initiated global [...]

Patients’ perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia – Mina Motamedi, Chris Degeling & Stacy M Carter

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T15:36:31+10:00Mental Health, Publications, Risk, Surgery, Women's health|

Transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries emerged as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency and/or pelvic organ prolapse in 1996. Years after rapid adoption of these surgeries into practice, they are a key example of worldwide failure of healthcare quality and patient safety. The prevalence of [...]

Risk of early revision in total hip arthroplasty: the relative contribution of the surgeon versus the hospital – Cameron Handford et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-05T13:03:06+10:00Hip, Musculoskeletal, Publications, Risk, Surgery|

Early revision for total hip arthroplasty is a serious adverse outcome. There are multiple contributing risk factors for early revision. Risk factors can exist at the level of the surgeon and the level of the institution. The primary research question of this study was to [...]

Communicating the Imperfect Diagnostic Accuracy of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Self-Tests: An Online Randomized Experiment – Huijun Li et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-04T13:42:40+10:00COVID-19, Health literacy, Public comprehension, Publications, Randomised Control Trial (RCT), Research, Risk|

We found strong evidence that health literacy–sensitive formatting supported participant understanding and recall of diagnostic accuracy information for a COVID-19 RAT. More than double the participants in the intervention group indicated that they understood what the specificity meant relative to those in the usual care [...]

Applying the Milan models to setting analytical performance specifications – considering all the information – Graham R.D. Jones et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-04T13:28:01+10:00Clinical quality, Low-value care, Publications, Risk, Tests|

Analytical performance specifications (APS) are used for decisions about the required analytical quality of pathology tests to meet clinical needs. The Milan models, based on clinical outcome, biological variation, or state of the art, were developed to provide a framework for setting APS. An approach [...]

Participant recruitment and attrition in surgical randomised trials with placebo controls versus non-operative controls: a meta-epidemiological study and meta-analysis – Pragadesh Natarajan et al.

Lucia Marcello2024-06-04T13:02:19+10:00Placebos, Publications, Randomised Control Trial (RCT), Research, Risk, Surgery|

Placebo control trials are the gold standard for determining the true therapeutic effect of interventions. However, placebo trials commonly face difficulties in participant recruitment due to a lack of willingness to participate especially in surgical placebo trials due to its inherently invasive nature and higher [...]

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