Scholarly papers and presentations by staff in the Health Sciences and Medicine Faculty
Documents from 2011
Falls after discharge from hospital: Is there a gap between older peoples’ knowledge about falls prevention strategies and the research evidence?, Anne-Marie Hill, Tammy Hoffmann, Christopher Beer, Steven McPhail, Keith D. Hill, David Oliver, Sandra G. Brauer, and Terry P. Haines
Evaluation of the sustained effect of inpatient falls prevention education and predictors of falls after hospital discharge: Follow-up to a randomised controlled trial, Anne-Marie Hill, Tammy Hoffmann, Steven McPhail, Christopher Beer, Keith D. Hill, David Oliver, Sandra G. Brauer, and Terrence P. Haines
Exercise-induced dehydration with and without environmental heat stress results in increased oxidative stress, Angela R. Hillman, Rebecca V. Vince, Lee Taylor, Lars McNaughton, Nigel Mitchell, and Jason Siegler
Factors associated with older patients' engagement in exercise after hospital discharge, Anne-Marie Hills, Tammy Hoffmann, Steven McPhail, Christopher Beer, Keith D. Hill, Sandra G. Brauer, and Terrence P. Haines
Fixed-dose combination therapy for hypertension: When should this approach be used?, Laurie Howes
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses (Review), Tom Jefferson, Chris B. Del Mar, Liz Dooley, Eliana Ferroni, Lubna A. Al-Ansary, Ghada A. Bawazeer, Mieke L. van Driel, Sreekumaran Nair, Mark A. Jones, Sarah Thorning, and John M. Conly
The utility of primary care in accessing clinical resources required for an undergraduate medical curriculum: A pilot study, Paul Jepson and Richard Hays
Moving beyond pink: The personalised approach to exercise for for breast cancer survivors, L. M. Jones, A. E. White, and J. W. L. Keogh
Tertiary survey performance in a regional trauma hospital without a dedicated trauma service, Gerben B. Keijzers, Don Campbell, Jeffrey Hooper, Nerolie Bost, Julia Crilly, Michael Steele, Blake Eddington, and Leo M.G. Geeraedts Jr.
Predicting influenza A and 2009 H1N1 influenza in patients admitted to hospital with acute respiratory illness, Gerben B. Keijzers, Caleb Nathaniel Kai-Lik Vossen, Ping Zhang, Deborough MacBeth, Petra Derrington, John Gregory Gerrard, and Jenny Doust
Paralympic sport: An emerging area for research and consultancy in sports biomechanics, Justin W. L. Keogh
The importance of promoting physical activity for cancer survivorship, Justin W. L. Keogh and Lynette Jones
Therapeutic options in the management of sleep disorders in visually impaired children: A systematic review, Sohil A. Khan, Helen Heussler, Treasure McGuire, Carolyn Dakin, David Pache, Ross Norris, David Cooper, and Bruce Charles
Treating chronic fatigue syndrome: A study into the scientific evidence for pharmacological treatments, Sanne Kreijkamp-Kaspers, Ekua W. Brenu, Sonya Marshall, Don Staines, and Mieke L. Van Driel
Cardiovascular risk scores do not account for the effect of treatment: A review, Su May Liew, Jenny Doust, and Paul Glasziou
Intraarticular injection of platelet-rich plasma reduces inflammation in a pig model of rheumatoid arthritis of the knee joint, Sebastian Lippross, Bjoern Moeller, Holger Haas, Mersedeh Tohidnezhad, Nadine Steubesand, Christoph Jan Wruck, Bodo Kurz, Andreas Seekamp, Thomas Pufe, and Deike Varoga
Proliferation assessment of primary human mesenchymal stem cells on collagen membranes for guided bone regeneration, Q Liu, A. Humpe, D. Kletsas, F. Warnke, S. T. Becker, T. Douglas, S. Sivananthan, and P. H. Warnke
Comparison of in vitro biocompatibility of NanoBone(®) and BioOss(®) for human osteoblasts, Qiu Liu, Timothy Douglas, Christiane Zamponi, Stephan T. Becker, Eugene Sherry, Sureshan Sivananthan, Frauke Warnke, Jörg Wiltfang, and Patrick H. Warnke
Leg strength and the VO2max of older men, Dale Lovell, Ross Cuneo, Elias Delphinus, and Gregory Gass
The blood pressure response of older men to maximum and sub-maximum strength testing, Dale I. Lovell, Ross Cuneo, and Gregory C. Gass
A comparison of asynchronous and synchronous arm cranking during the Wingate test, Dale I. Lovell, Dale Mason, Elias Delphinus, and Christopher P. McLellan
Do compression garments enhance the active recovery process after high-intensity running?, Dale I. Lovell, Dale G. Mason, Elias M. Delphinus, and Christopher P. McLellan
Does upper body strength and power influence upper body Wingate performance in men and women?, D. Lovell, D. Mason, E. Delphinus, A. Eagles, S. Shewring, and Christopher P. McLellan
Biochemical and endocrine responses to impact and collision during elite rugby league match play, Christopher P. McLellan, Dale I. Lovell, and Gregory Gass
Performance analysis of elite rugby league match play using Global Positioning Systems, Christopher P. McLellan, Dale I. Lovell, and Gregory Gass
The role of rate of force development on vertical jump performance, Christopher P. McLellan, Dale I. Lovell, and Gregory C. Gass
Markers of postmatch fatigue in professional rugby league players, Christ P. McLellan, Dale I. Lovell, and Gregory Gass
The effects of sodium bicarbonate ingestion on maximal tethered treadmill running, Lars R. McNaughton, J. C. Siegler, S. Keatley, and A. Hillman
Patterns of 'leakage' in the utilisation of clinical guidelines: A systematic review, Sharon Mickan, Amanda Burls, and Paul Glasziou
Urothelial/lamina propria spontaneous activity and the role of M3 muscarinic receptors in mediating rate responses to stretch and carbachol, Christian Moro, Jumpei Uchiyama, and Russ Chess-Williams
Minimal interventions to decrease long-term use of benzodiazepines in primary care: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Kayalvili Mugunthan, Treasure McGuire, and Paul P. Glasziou
Early versus traditional postoperative feeding in patients undergoing resectional gastrointestinal surgery: A meta-analysis, Emma Osland, Rossita Mohamad Yunus, Shahjahan Khan, and Muhammed Ashraf Memon
Osteoporosis and bisphosphonates-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: Not just a sporadic coincidence - A multi-centre study, Sven Otto, Mario Harkim Abu-Id, Stefano Fedele, Patrick H. Warnke, Stephan T. Becker, Andreas Kolk, Thomas Mucke, Gerson Mast, Robert Kohnke, Elias Volkmer, Florian Haasters, Olivier Lieger, Tateyuki Iizuka, Stephen Porter, Giuseppina Campisi, Giuseppe Colella, Oliver Ploder, Andreas Neff, Jorg Wiltfang, Michael Ehrenfeld, Thomas Kreusch, Klaus-Dietrich Wolff, Stephen R. Sturzenbaum, Matthias Schieker, and Christoph Pautke
General practitioners' views and experiences of counselling for physical activity through the New Zealand Green Prescription program, Asmita Patel, Grant M. Schofield, Gregory S. Kolt, and Justin W. L. Keogh
Pre-exercise alkalosis attenuates the heat shock protein 72 response to a single-bout of anaerobic exercise, Daniel J. Peart, Lars McNaughton, Adrian W. Midgley, Lee Taylor, Christopher Towlson, Leigh A. Madden, and Rebecca V. Vince
Bioactive coating of titanium surfaces with recombinant human ß-defensin-2, Nadine Y. Pfeufer, Karsten Hofmann-Peiker, Mike Muhle, Patrick H. Warnke, Martin C. Weigel, and Michael Kleine
Use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in managing risk and liability in health/fitness facilities, Shayne Quick and Betul M. Sekendiz
Improving health outcomes in young people: A holistic, team based approach, Susie Radford, Mieke L. Van Driel, and Kate Swanton
The effects of short term recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) on blood rheology in healthy young males, Sandra B. Ramos, J. F. Brun, A. Bon Gray, Shane Rogerson, R. P. Weatherby, Lotti Tajouri, and Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik
The sacrospinous ligament: Conveniently effective or effectively convenient?, A. Rane, M. Frazer, A. Jain, K. Kannan, and J. Iyer
Subclavian artery laceration: A serious complication of needle decompression, Damien Riwoe and Hugo D.M. Ponica
A randomised feasibility study of EPA and Cox-2 inhibitor (Celebrex), Resistance Training followed by ingestion of essential amino acids high in leucine in NSCLC cachetic patients - ACCeRT study, Elaine S. Rogers, Roderick D. MacLeod, Joanna Stewart, Stephen P. Bird, and Justin W. L. Keogh
Onset of preclinical osteoarthritis: The angular spatial organization permits early diagnosis, Bernd Rolauffs, Miriam Rothdiener, Christian Bahrs, Andreas Badke, Kuno Weise, Klaus E. Kuettner, Bodo Kurz, Matthias Aurich, Alan J. Grodzinsky, and Wilhelm K. Aicher
Measuring performance in skin cancer practice: The SCARD initiative, Cliff Rosendahl, Craig Hansen, Alan Cameron, Peter Bourne, Tobias Wilson, Ben Cook, Martin Barker, Jeff Keir, Tony Dicker, Mike Reid, Richard Williamson, David Weedon, H.Peter Soyer, Philippa H. Youl, and David Wilkinson
How prostate cancer patients cope with the effects of diagnosis and treatment: Development of the effects of prostate cancer coping strategies scale, Christopher F. Sharpley, Vicki Bitsika, and David Christie
The HPA axis and GABA-glutamate systems as potential antidepressant targets in prostate cancer, Christopher F. Sharpley and David Christie
Three questions that patients can ask to improve the quality of information physicians give about treatment options: a cross-over trial, Heather L. Shepherd, Alexandra Barratt, Lyndal J. Trevena, Kevin McGeechan, Karen Carey, Ronald M. Epstein, Phyllis N. Butow, Chris Del Mar, Vikki Entwistle, and Martin H.N. Tattersall
A comparison of capillary and venous blood sampling methods for the use in haemorheology studies, Michael J. Simmonds, Oguz K. Baskurt, Herbert J. Meiselman, and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik
Haemorheology of the eastern grey kangaroo and the Tasmanian devil, Michael J. Simmonds, Oguz K. Baskurt, Herbert J. Meiselman, Michael Pyne, Michael Kakanis, Ekua Brenu, James Keane, Rhys Christy, and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik
Red blood cell aggregation parameters measured by capillary tube aggregometer using venous and capillary blood samples, Michael J. Simmonds, R. M. Christy, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Herbert J. Meiselman, and Oguz K. Baskurt
Cardiovascular dynamics during exercise are related to blood rheology, Michael J. Simmonds, Julien Tripette, Surendran Sabapathy, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, and Philippe Connes
Effect of exercise training on interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor alpha and functional capacity in heart failure, Neil A. Smart, Alf I. Larsen, John P. Le Maitre, and Almir S. Ferraz
The effect of physical training on systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in heart failure patients: A systematic review, Neil A. Smart and Michael Steele
Outcomes of early versus late nephrology referral in chronic kidney disease: A systematic review, Neil A. Smart and Thomas T. Titus
Exercise training in haemodialysis patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Neil Smart and Mike Steele
Appropriate primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Does this mean more or less statin use?, Jane W. Smith
Developing a medical school: expansion of medical student capacity in new locations: AMEE guide no. 551, David Snadden, Joanna Bates, Philip Burns, Oscar Casiro, Richard Hays, and Dan Hunt
Comparability of patient-reported health status: Multicountry analysis of EQ-5D responses in patients with type 2 diabetes, Joshua A. Solomon, Anushka Patel, Bruce Neal, Paul P. Glasziou, Diederick E. Grobbee, John Chalmers, and Philip M. Clark
Antibiotics for bronchiolitis in children, Geoffrey K. P. Spurling, Jenny Doust, Chris B. Del Mar, and Lars Eriksson
The immediate effect of unilateral lumbar Z-joint mobilisation on posterior chain neurodynamics: A randomised controlled study, Adam Michael Szlezak, Peter Georgilopoulos, Joanne Elizabeth Bullock-Saxton, and Michael Steele
Mechanism of autoimmunity in pregnancy - The good and the bad, Lotti Tajouri, Ekua W. Brenu, Donald R. Staines, and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik
Mobilisation with movement in the management of swimmer's shoulder, Pamela Teys and Bill Vicenzino
A purpose-built dynamometer to objectively measure static and dynamic knee torque, U. C. Ugbolue, K. T. Kaliarntas, and S. C. Wearing
Phasic activity of urinary bladder smooth muscle in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat: Effect of potassium channel modulators, Bahareh Vahabi, Kim Lawson, Neil G. McKay, and Donna Sellers
The role of c-kit-positive interstitial cells in mediating phasic contractions of bladder strips from streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, Bahareh Vahabi, Neil G. McKay, Kim Lawson, and Donna J. Sellers
Systemic corticosteroids for acute sinusitis (Review), Roderick P. Venekamp, Matthew J. Thompson, Gail Hayward, Carl J. Heneghan, Chris Del Mar, Rafael Perera, Paul P. Glasziou, and Maroeska M. Rovers
Improved body mass index classification for football code masters athletes: A comparison to the Australian national population, Joe Walsh, Mike Climstein, Ian Timothy Heazlewood, Stephen Burke, Jyrki Kettunen, Kent Adams, and Mark DeBeliso
The loess regression relationship between age and BMI for both Sydney World Masters Games athletes and the Australian national population, Joe Walsh, Mike Climstein, Ian Timothy Heazlewood, Stephen Burke, Jyrki Kettunen, Kent Adams, and Mark DeBeliso
Body mass index of masters basketball players, Joe Walsh, Mike Climstein, Ian Timothy Heazlewood, Mark DeBeliso, Kent Adams, Stephen Burke, and Jyrki Kettunen
A high cholesterol diet given to apolipoprotein E-knockout mice has a differential effect on the various neurotrophin systems in the hippocampus, Zhi-Yu Wang, Takanori Miki, Yan Ding, Shi-Jie Wang, Yu-Huan Gao, Xiao-Ling Wang, Yu-Hua Wang, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Katsuhiko Warita, Ken-ichi Ohta, Shingo Suzuki, Taira Ohnishi, Takashi Obama, Kuldip Bedi, Yoshiki Takeuchi, and Bao-En Shan
Conditioning of the Achilles tendon via ankle exercise improves correlations between sonographic measures of tendon thickness and body anthropometry, Scott C. Wearing, Nicole L. Grigg, Sue L. Hooper, and James E. Smeathers
Management of malignant left-sided large bowel obstruction: A comparison between colonic stents and surgery, Stephen I. White, Ibrahim Abdool, and Brett Frenkiel
Body site distribution of skin cancer, pre-malignant and common benign pigmented lesions excised in general practice, Philippa H. Youl, Monika Janda, Joanne F. Aitken, Chris B. Del Mar, David C. Whiteman, and Peter D. Baade
Documents from 2010
The use of adhesive tape for recovery of DNA from crime scene items, Mark Barash, Ayeleth Reshef, and Paul Brauner
Assessment of the hemorheological profile of koala and echidna, Oguz K. Baskurt, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Michael Pyne, Michael Simmonds, Ekua Brenu, Rhys Christy, and Herbert J. Meiselman
Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: How will we ever keep up?, Hilda Bastian, Paul Glasziou, and Iain Chalmers
Biocompatibility of individually designed scaffolds with human periosteum for use in tissue engineering, Stephan T. Becker, Timothy Douglas, Yahya Acil, Hermann Seitz, Sureshan Sivananthan, Jörg Wiltfang, and Patrick H. Warnke
Developing advocacy in physiotheraphy students: Working with our Tanzanian colleagues, Mara Bennett
The immune system in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, Ekua W. Brenu, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, and Donald R. Staines
Immune and hemorheological changes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Ekua W. Brenu, Donald R. Staines, Oguz K. Baskurt, Kevin J. Ashton, Sandra B. Ramos, Rhys M. Christy, and Sonya M. Marshall-Gradisnik
Forensic osteology, Christopher A. Briggs, Denise Donlon, and Walter B. Wood
Attitudes to infant feeding decision-making - A mixed-methods study of Australian medical students and GP registrars, Wendy Brodribb, Tony Fallon, Claire Jackson, and Desley Hegney
The relationship between performances at U-14 international youth tournaments and later success in tennis, Jessie Brouwers, Veerle De Bosscher, Hebe Schaillée, Jasper Truyens, and Popi Sotiriadou
Vertebroplasty versus conservative treatment for vertebral fractures, Rachelle Buchbinder, David Kallmes, and Paul Glasziou
Pathaid: The interpretation of common pathology tests and the pathological diagnosis of disease, Warwick Carter
Factors for evaluating the web as a marketing tool in Greek sport, George Costa, Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Shayne Quick, Efi Tsitskari, and George Tzetzis
Interventions for preventing mastitis after childbirth (Review), Maree Anne Crepinsek, Linda Crowe, Keryl Michener, and Neil A. Smart
The inhibitory role of acetylcholine and muscarinic receptors in bladder afferent activity, Donna M. Daly, Russell Chess-Williams, Christopher Chapple, and David Grundy
But what should journals actually do to keep industry sponsored research unbiased?, Chris Del Mar
Urinary tract infections in healthy women: A revolution in management?, Chris Del Mar
Information needs, asking questions and some basics of research studies, Chris Del Mar and Tammy Hoffmann
Has the investment in general practice research been worthwhile?, Christopher B. Del Mar and Mieke van Driel
Novel ceramic bone replacement material CeraBall® seeded with human mesenchymal stem cells, Timothy Douglas, Qin Liu, Andreas Humpe, Jörg Wiltfang, Sureshan Sivananthan, and Patrick H. Warnke
Qualification versus validation of biomarkers, Jenny Doust
Platelet-rich fibrin membranes as scaffolds for periosteal tissue engineering, Volker L. Gassling, Timothy Douglas, Patrick H. Warnke, Yahya Acil, Jörg Wiltfang, and Stephan T. Becker
Emergency care workload units: A novel tool to compare emergency department activity, Audra Gedmintas, Nerolie Bost, Gerben Keijzers, David Green, and James Lind
Reducing the waste in health care research, Paul Glasziou
Cost-effectiveness of lowering blood pressure with a fixed combination of perindopril and indapamide in type 2 diabetes mellitus: An ADVANCE trial-based analysis, Paul P. Glasziou, Philip Clarke, Jan Alexander, Mohana Rajmokan, Elaine Beller, Mark Woodward, John Chalmers, Neil Poulter, and Anushka Patel
Developing the guidelines for preventive care: Two decades of experience, Mark F. Harris, Linda Bailey, Teri Snowdon, John Litt, Jane W. Smith, Beres Joyner, and John Furler