Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Gerontology Department and Frailty in Ageing Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Geriatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: ivan.bautmans@vub.be.
Department of Human Movement Sciences, @AgeAmsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Department of Medicine and Aged Care, @AgeMelbourne, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore, Singapore; National University Health System, Singapore.
Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Faculty of Sciences, Department of Exercise Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada.
Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Land managers around the world are increasingly under pressure to demonstrate that the actions being used to moderate wildfire risk are effective and cost-efficient. However, little research to date h...
Spatiotemporal modelling techniques allow one to predict injury across time and space. However, such methods have been underutilised in injury studies. This study demonstrates the use of statistical s...
We performed a retrospective review of hospitalised major trauma patients from the Victorian State Trauma Registry, Australia, between 2007 and 2019. Geographical locations of injury events were mappe...
There were 31,317 major trauma patients included. For major trauma overall, we observed substantial spatial variation in injury incidence and a significant 2.1% increase in injury incidence per year. ...
These findings can be used to inform injury prevention initiatives, which could be designed to target areas with relatively high injury risk and with significantly increasing injury risk over time. Ou...
In the last 10-15 years, there has been a global resurgence of scarlet fever, an infection historically associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is unknown whether scarlet fever inciden...
Victoria, Australia commenced its first Rural Community Internship Training program in 2012 to support the development of rural generalist (RG) doctors. These general practitioners have additional ski...
Between October and November 2021, a retrospective 10-minute anonymous survey invitation was sent to all contactable interns (n=222) who had completed/were completing the RG internship training (2012-...
There were 59 participants (27% response rate); 81% were in postgraduate years 3-7. Respondents included 54% male, 17% rurally bonded, 39% of rural origin, 34% having had more than 3 months rural unde...
This study provides evidence from doctors up to 9 years after completing their RG internship. Compared with industry benchmarks, the RG internships attract rurally intentioned and rurally experienced ...
Virtual ED (VED) can potentially alleviate ED overcrowding which has been a public health challenge. The aim of the present study was to conduct a return-on-investment analysis of a VED programme deve...
An economic model was developed based on initial patient outcome data to assess the healthcare costs, potential costs saved and return on investment (ROI) from the VED. The VED programme operating as ...
The mean total operational cost of VED for 79 days for 188 patients was A$344 117 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] $296 800-$392 088). The VED led to a potential A$286 779 (95% UI $241 688-$330 568) hea...
The VED was cost neutral in a conservatively modelled scenario but promising if any hospital admission could be saved. Ongoing research examining a larger cohort with community follow up is required t...
Voluntary Assisted Dying is a process whereby terminally ill patients are provided a lethal dose of medication for them to voluntarily ingest to end their life. Victoria, Australia, implemented legisl...
International longitudinal studies have indicated an increasing incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). We aim to examine the incident trends, demographic differences, length of stay and mortality f...
Age and sex adjusted incident trends, length of stay and mortality for DKA was retrospectively obtained using the Victorian Admitted Episode Dataset between 2002 and 2016. Data for adults with T1D and...
There were 23,628 DKA presentations in Victoria between 2002 and 2016. For T1D there was an increase in DKA presentations (AAPC + 6.8%) from 2003 to 2016 and for T2D there was a decline from 2003 to 2...
DKA rates increased for T2D from 2011 to 2014 which correlates with the introduction of sodium glucose-linked transport protein 2 inhibitors. However, the aetiology for the observed increase in T1D fr...
Given the high incidence of melanoma in Australia alongside high mortality with later stage disease, we investigated the populations and locations most at risk, to optimise public health activities in...
The analysis includes data from the population-based cancer registries of the three states over a twenty-year period (1997-2016). Age-standardized and age-specific incidence rates were calculated, and...
There were more males with melanoma than females in all the three states. Over 60% of the cases occurred in the 40-74 years age group. Most melanomas had a Breslow thickness less than or equal to 1.0 ...
It is the first time that data from these three registries has been analysed together in a uniform way, covering more than half of the Australian population. This study compares the epidemiology of me...
The aim of this study was to summarize the otolaryngological manifestations amongst children with primary ciliary dyskinesia (cwPCD) to improve diagnosis, investigations and management amongst otolary...
A retrospective review of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) diagnoses at our institution over an 8-year period between January 2014 and October 2022 was conducted. Patient characteristics, diagnosis, o...
24 patients were identified. Thirteen patients (54%) had documented conductive hearing loss on audiological evaluation; with 11 (85%) requiring hearing aids. Six patients (25%) underwent middle ear ve...
Middle ear effusion is common amongst cwPCD and should be managed with conservative measures due to the significant burden of post-MEVT otorrhoea. Sinonasal symptoms rarely need surgical intervention....
Road crashes present a serious public health issue. Many people are seriously or fatally injured every year in avoidable crashes. While these crashes can have multiple contributing factors, including ...
A total of 5,108 drivers in Victoria, Australia completed an online survey in 2019. A mediated regression analysis was used to examine pathways in a conceptual model developed for the study....
The results showed that perceptions towards the four potential deterrents examined did mediate the relationship (either completely or partially) between personality and expectations to speed....
The results of this study suggest that if interventions to deter illegal driving behavior are to be successful, one factor that could be taken into account is the personality traits of drivers who may...
