Guidelines for prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing in Australia recommend that men at average risk of prostate cancer who have been informed of the benefits and harms, and who decide to undergo regular testing, should be offered testing every 2 years from 50 to 69 years. This [...]
The Australian mixed public and private health care model can lead to those most in need receiving the least or least effective care. We investigated whether this applied to preventive health checks in general practice for women in mid-life. Two types of mid-life preventive health [...]
Objectives: To determine the total annual screening and further-investigation costs of investigating false-positive and true-positive mammograms in the Australian population breast-screening program.
Last week, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney released a video of themselves getting colonoscopies to encourage others to undergo screening. The procedure detected polyps in the two men, both aged 45...
A simple audit and feedback mechanism can successfully reduce overuse of musculoskeletal imaging by General Practitioners (GPs) at a national scale, saving precious health system resources, and saving patients’ time, money, potential for incidental findings, unnecessary treatment and risk of harm from cumulative exposure to [...]
Among Australian high-requesting general practitioners, an individualized audit and feedback intervention significantly decreased the rate of targeted musculoskeletal imaging tests ordered over 12 months.
Unnecessary testing for levels of vitamin D is costing Australia's healthcare system about $87 million a year and contributing to the sector's carbon footprint, according to Australian researchers. The researchers found in 2020, more than 4.4 million vitamin D tests were funded by Medicare, enough [...]
This is the first study to undertake an adapted triple bottom line assessment of a low-value healthcare activity to explore and make explicit its health, financial and environmental impacts. Our triple bottom line assessment of vitamin D testing highlights that low-value care, which provides little [...]
Our study highlights potential improvements in practice towards reducing medical radiation exposure in certain high risk population. Since changes in the relative probability of having a CT scan (representing changes in scope) rather than changes in the distribution of the patient characteristics (representing changes in [...]
To determine the impact of test measurement variation on misclassification of prediabetes and diabetes in the US adult population.