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A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Australia For July – December 2019, Samuel F. Allingham, Samuel J. Burns, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson, Kathy Eagar, Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 26,586 patients who received palliative care during July to December 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Western Australia For July – December 2019, Samuel F. Allingham, Samuel J. Burns, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson, Kathy Eagar, Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 4,631 patients who received palliative care in Western Australia during July to December 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In South Australia For July – December 2019, Samuel F. Allingham, Samuel J. Burns, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson, Kathy Eagar, Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 2,204 patients who received palliative care in South Australia during July to December 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

Role Of Area-Level Access To Primary Care On The Geographic Variation Of Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Distribution: A Multilevel Analysis Of The Adult Residents In The Illawarra—Shoalhaven Region Of Nsw, Australia, Renin Melkias Baby Selvi Toms, Xiaoqi Feng, Darren J. Mayne, Andrew D. Bonney

Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute

Background: Access to primary care is important for the identification, control and management of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs). This study investigated whether differences in geographic access to primary care explained area-level variation in CMRFs. Methods: Multilevel logistic regression models were used to derive the association between area-level access to primary care and seven discrete CMRFs after adjusting for individual and area-level co-variates. Two-step floating catchment area method was used to calculate the geographic access to primary care for the small areas within the study region. Results: Geographic access to primary care was inversely associated with low high density lipoprotein (OR …

How A Stone Wedged In A Gum Tree Shows The Resilience Of Aboriginal Culture In Australia, Caroline Spry, Brian J. Armstrong, Elspeth H. Hayes, John A. Webb, Kathryn Allen, Lisa Paton, Quan Hua, Richard Fullagar

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

Trees marked by Aboriginal cultural practices are a distinctive part of the Australian landscape. A recent discovery on Wiradjuri country in New South Wales shows some of these “culturally modified trees” may be much younger than anybody thought...

Using The Delphi Process To Identify Priorities For Dietetic Research In Australia 2020‐2030, Judi Porter, Karen E. Charlton, Linda C. Tapsell, Helen Truby

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

Aim This research aimed to use a consensus process to develop a framework and definition for nutrition and dietetic research, and to identify dietetic research priorities for Australia for the period 2020 to 2030. Methods A three‐round Delphi process was selected to enable dietitians with demonstrated research expertise to contribute to the national priority development. All Fellows of the Dietitians Association of Australia, Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitians and research leaders were invited to participate (n = 84). The questionnaire was distributed electronically using a 7‐point Likert scale. Rounds 1 and 2 asked participants to comment on the proposed research framework, …

Humans Coexisted With Three-Tonne Marsupials And Lizards As Long As Cars In Ancient Australia, Scott Hocknull, Anthony Dosseto, Gilbert Price, Lee Arnold, Patrick Moss, Renaud Joannes-Boyau

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. We have studied fossil bones of these animals for the past decade. Our findings, published today in Nature Communications, shed new light on the mystery of what drove these ancient megafauna to extinction.

Australia Needs A National Fire Inquiry - These Are The 3 Key Areas It Should Deliver In, David David Bowman, Ross A. Bradstock

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

Australia's bushfire crisis has been unprecedented, so it demands an unprecedented national response. Never before has such a large area been burnt by multiple fires in a single fire season, including bushland in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Ppe Unmasked: Why Health-Care Workers In Australia Are Inadequately Protected Against Coronavirus, Alicia Dennis, Jane L. Whitelaw

Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Papers

In Victoria, more than 1,100 health-care workers have now been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Some 11% of active cases are workers in the health-care sector. Health-care workers are reported to be among those fighting for life in Victorian intensive care units.

Employment Change In Mining And Manufacturing In Australia, 2010/11 – 2015/16: Dissecting The Subnational Patterns And Concentrations, Shanaka Hereth, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Faculty of Business and Law - Papers

This paper recognises Krugman’s (1991) core-periphery model and analyses the reallocation of employment across the Australian metro and nonmetro regions over the period 2010/11-2015/16. The differences were interpreted using shift-share analysis and industry-specific location quotients, and patterns of change and concentrations for mining and manufacturing are highlighted, given the significance of these industries during this period. The industry-specific location quotients suggest that there was a shift in relative concentrations of mining and manufacturing industries in non-metropolitan regions. The shift-share results are consistent and suggest that regional specialisation and regional competitiveness are characteristic of employment change in metro regions. In nonmetropolitan …

Building Momentum: An Urban And Regional Geography Of Municipal Food Waste Composting, Timothy P. Wall

Social Sciences - Honours Theses

Abstract The economic and environmental consequences of household food waste have become widely recognised in popular and policy spheres. This is particularly so in consumer societies. Because 40% of landfill, by weight, is made up of household food waste (Kane, 2020) there are also growing concerns about the environmental and economic costs to regional and urban municipalities. Such concerns are also combined with interest about how to better value food waste as a resource. As household food waste continues to increase, municipalities in many consumer societies have taken steps towards implementing food composting strategies as part of diversification strategies to …

Did The End Justify The Means? An Exploration Of How Australian Newspapers Portrayed People With Disability When Reporting On The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Ndis) And What People With Disability Say About The Coverage., Shawn Burns

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis is about media coverage of disability. Specifically, it is concerned with four issues, namely (1) the extent to which Australian newspapers provide people with disability a voice when reporting on issues that directly affect them; (2) the language adopted by journalists and media organisations when reporting on disability; (3) whether that language is traditional or progressive (that is, does it present disability as a significant part of the human condition or fallback on stereotype and negative models of disability); and, most importantly, (4) what people with disability think about their representation in Australian news media.

The thesis uses …

Would The Singaporean Approach To Whistleblower Protection Laws Work In Australia?, John Mclaren, Wesley Kendall, Laura Rook

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

Federal, State and Territory Governments have enacted a range of statutory laws to protect whistleblowers. The aim of these laws is to provide protection to those individuals in the private and public sector who report unlawful acts made by organizations, contractors and their employees. Provided the disclosure is made in ‘good faith’, the person making the disclosure is afforded protection from being sued for defamation, breach of confidence under their employment contract or for breach of their common law fiduciary duty. This paper has two purposes; first, the objective of the Australian Government in introducing new whistleblowing laws that extend …

Satellite And Ground-Based Measurements Of Xco2 In A Remote Semiarid Region Of Australia, Voltaire A. Velazco, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Isamu Morino, Osamu Uchino, Beata Bukosa, Masataka Ajiro, Akihide Kamei, Nicholas B. Jones, Clare Paton-Walsh, David W. T Griffith

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

In this study, we present ground-based measurements of column-averaged dry-air mole fractions (DMFs) of CO2 (or XCO2) taken in a semiarid region of Australia with an EM27/SUN portable spectrometer equipped with an automated clamshell cover. We compared these measurements to space-based XCO2 retrievals from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). Side-by-side measurements of EM27/SUN with the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) instrument at the University of Wollongong were conducted in 2015-2016 to derive an XCO2 scaling factor of 0.9954 relative to TCCON. Although we found a slight drift of 0.13 % over 3 months in the calibration curve of …

Geographic Variation In Cardiometabolic Risk Distribution: A Cross-Sectional Study Of 256,525 Adult Residents In The Illawarra-Shoalhaven Region Of The Nsw, Australia, Renin Toms, Darren J. Mayne, Xiaoqi Feng, Andrew D. Bonney

Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute

Introduction Metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) warrant significant public health concern globally. This study aims to utilise the regional database of a major laboratory network to describe the geographic distribution pattern of eight different cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs), which in turn can potentially generate hypotheses for future research into locality specific preventive approaches. Method A cross-sectional design utilising de-identified laboratory data on eight CMRFs including fasting blood sugar level (FBSL); glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c); total cholesterol (TC); high density lipoprotein (HDL); albumin creatinine ratio (ACR); estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR); body mass index (BMI); and diabetes mellitus (DM) status …

Exploring The Geography Of Serious Mental Illness And Type 2 Diabetes Comorbidity In Illawarra-Shoalhaven, Australia (2010 -2017), Ramya Walsan, Darren J. Mayne, Nagesh B. Pai, Xiaoqi Feng, Andrew D. Bonney

Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute

Objectives The primary aim of this study was to describe the geography of serious mental illness (SMI)-type 2 diabetes comorbidity (T2D) in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region of NSW, Australia. The Secondary objective was to determine the geographic concordance if any, between the comorbidity and the single diagnosis of SMI and diabetes. Methods Spatial analytical techniques were applied to clinical data to explore the above objectives. The geographic variation in comorbidity was determined by Moran's I at the global level and the local clusters of significance were determined by Local Moran's I and spatial scan statistic. Choropleth hotspot maps and spatial scan …

Green And Blue Infrastructure In Darwin; Carbon Economies And The Social And Cultural Dimensions Of Valuing Urban Mangroves In Australia, Jennifer M. Atchison

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Darwin's mangrove ecosystems, some of the most extensive and biodiverse in the world, are part of the urban fabric in the tropical north of Australia but they are also clearly at risk from the current scale and pace of development. Climate motivated market-based responses, the so-called 'new-carbon economies', are one prominent approach to thinking differently about the value of living infrastructure and how it might provide for and improve liveability. In the Australian context, there are recent efforts to promote mangrove ecosystems as blue infrastructure, specifically as blue carbon, but also little recognition or valuation of them as green or …

#Metoo Has Changed The Media Landscape, But In Australia There Is Still Much To Be Done, Bianca Fileborn, Rachel E. Loney-Howes, Sophie Hindes

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Emerging in October 2017 in response to allegations of sexual assault perpetrated by Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo highlighted the potential for traditional and social media to work together to generate global interest in gender-based violence. Within 24 hours, survivors around the world had used the hashtag 12 million times.

Proximity To Pain Management Services In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard

Australian Health Services Research Institute

This paper aims to investigate the proximity of specialist pain management facilities to the people who receive their services.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Australia For January - June 2019, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 24,564 patients who received palliative care during January to June 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In South Australia For January - June 2019, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 1,845 patients who received palliative care in South Australia during January to June 2019 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Western Australia For January - June 2019, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 4,181 patients who received palliative care in Western Australia during July to December 2018 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In South Australia For July - December 2018, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 1,903 patients who received palliative care in South Australia during July to December 2018 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Australia For July - December 2018, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 23,333 patients who received palliative care during July to December 2018 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

A Profile Of Patients Receiving Palliative Care In Western Australia For July - December 2018, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) is a national program that aims to improve the quality and outcomes of palliative care in Australia. This is achieved via a standardised clinical language that supports a national data collection. This report provides a high level profile of 3,813 patients who received palliative care in Western Australia during July to December 2018 and had their pain, symptom, family / carer and psychological / spiritual issues assessed as part of routine clinical care.

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care - South Australia, July - December 2018, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Australian palliative care sector is a world leader in using routine clinical assessment information to guide patient centred care and measure patient and family outcomes. Providers of palliative care are commended for their commitment to excellence in delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care by using the routine Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) assessment framework and contributing patient data toward national outcome measurement and benchmarking. PCOC acknowledges the dedication and willingness of clinicians to improve the care of patients, their families and caregivers. The information collected is not just data - it represents the real-life outcomes of over 40,000 Australians who die …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care - South Australia, January - June 2019, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Australian palliative care sector is a world leader in using routine clinical assessment information to guide patient centred care and measure patient and family outcomes. Providers of palliative care are commended for their commitment to excellence in delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care by using the routine Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) assessment framework and contributing patient data toward national outcome measurement and benchmarking. PCOC acknowledges the dedication and willingness of clinicians to improve the care of patients, their families and caregivers. The information collected is not just data - it represents the real-life outcomes of over 40,000 Australians who die …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care - Western Australia, January - June 2019, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham, Barbara A. Daveson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Australian palliative care sector is a world leader in using routine clinical assessment information to guide patient centred care and measure patient and family outcomes. Providers of palliative care are commended for their commitment to excellence in delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care by using the routine Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) assessment framework and contributing patient data toward national outcome measurement and benchmarking. PCOC acknowledges the dedication and willingness of clinicians to improve the care of patients, their families and caregivers. The information collected is not just data - it represents the real-life outcomes of over 40,000 Australians who die …

Comparing Static And Dynamic Flood Models In Estuarine Environments: A Case Study From South-East Australia, Kristian Kumbier, Rafael Cabral Carvalho, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Colin D. Woodroffe

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B

Static and dynamic flood models differ substantially in their complexity and their ability to represent environmental processes such as storm tide or riverine flooding. This study analysed spatial differences in flood extent between static (bathtub) and dynamic flood models (Delft3D) in estuarine environments with different morphology and hydrodynamics in order to investigate which approach is most suitable to map flooding due to storm surges and river discharge in estuarine environments. Time series of observed water levels and river discharge measurements were used to force model boundaries. Observational data, such as tidal gauge and water level logger measurements, satellite imagery and …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care - Western Australia, July - December 2018, Alanna M. Connolly, Samuel J. Burns, Samuel F. Allingham, Tanya Pidgeon, Natalie Joseph, Linda M. Foskett, Sabina P. Clapham

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Australian palliative care sector is a world leader in using routine clinical assessment information to guide patient centred care and measure patient and family outcomes. Providers of palliative care are commended for their commitment to excellence in delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care by using the routine Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) assessment framework and contributing patient data toward national outcome measurement and benchmarking. PCOC acknowledges the dedication and willingness of clinicians to improve the care of patients, their families and caregivers. The information collected is not just data - it represents the real-life outcomes of over 40,000 Australians who die …