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Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Paediatric Pain Management Service, 2020 Mid Year Report For 1 July 2019 To 30 June 2020, Samuel F. Allingham, Karen Quinsey, Meredith P. Bryce, Kate V. Cameron, Hilarie Tardif Jan 2020

Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Paediatric Pain Management Service, 2020 Mid Year Report For 1 July 2019 To 30 June 2020, Samuel F. Allingham, Karen Quinsey, Meredith P. Bryce, Kate V. Cameron, Hilarie Tardif

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.


Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Pain Management Service, 2020 Mid Year Report For 1 July 2019 To 30 June 2020, Samuel F. Allingham, Hilarie Tardif, Karen Quinsey, Meredith P. Bryce, Kate V. Cameron, Janelle M. White, Jane Royle, Sarah E. Damm Jan 2020

Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Pain Management Service, 2020 Mid Year Report For 1 July 2019 To 30 June 2020, Samuel F. Allingham, Hilarie Tardif, Karen Quinsey, Meredith P. Bryce, Kate V. Cameron, Janelle M. White, Jane Royle, Sarah E. Damm

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.


Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Pain Management Service, 2018 Annual Report For 1 January To 31 December 2018, Megan B. Blanchard, Janelle M. White, Meredith P. Bryce, Julie A. Blacklock, Karen Quinsey, Hilarie Tardif Jan 2019

Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Pain Management Service, 2018 Annual Report For 1 January To 31 December 2018, Megan B. Blanchard, Janelle M. White, Meredith P. Bryce, Julie A. Blacklock, Karen Quinsey, Hilarie Tardif

Australian Health Services Research Institute

ePPOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the pain management they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this report, data submitted for patients active during the period 1 January to 31 December 2018 are summarised to enable participating services to assess their performance and compare this with outcomes achieved by other services.


Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Paediatric Pain Management Service, 2018 Annual Report For 1 January To 31 December 2018, Megan B. Blanchard, Meredith P. Bryce, Janelle M. White, Julie A. Blacklock, Karen Quinsey, Hilarie Tardif Jan 2019

Patient Outcomes In Pain Management: Enterprise One Paediatric Pain Management Service, 2018 Annual Report For 1 January To 31 December 2018, Megan B. Blanchard, Meredith P. Bryce, Janelle M. White, Julie A. Blacklock, Karen Quinsey, Hilarie Tardif

Australian Health Services Research Institute

ePPOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the pain management they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this report, data submitted for patients active during the period 1 January to 31 December 2018 are summarised to enable participating services to assess their performance and compare this with outcomes achieved by other services.


State Ownership And Earnings Management In Highly-Valued Firms: Evidence From China, Leye Li, Gary S. Monroe, Jing Wang Jan 2019

State Ownership And Earnings Management In Highly-Valued Firms: Evidence From China, Leye Li, Gary S. Monroe, Jing Wang

Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)

We examine how state ownership affects Chinese firms’ earning management during a period of high valuation. Based on a sample of 19,107 firm-year observations with sufficient data on the China Securities Markets and Accounting Research (CSMAR) database over the period from 2003 to 2017, we find the magnitude of accruals management first increases for up to three years of high valuation, and then reduces after the fourth year. This finding is consistent with the view that the difficulty of consistently using accruals to manage earnings upwards increases over time because of the reversing nature of accruals. We find that managers …


Proximity To Pain Management Services In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard Jan 2019

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.


Medication Management In Older People: Realist Approaches Based On Literature And Evaluation (Memorable): A Realist Synthesis, Ian Maidment, Sally Lawson, Geoff Wong, Andrew Booth, Anne Watson, Jane Mckeown, Hadar Zaman, Judy Mullan, Sylvia Bailey Jan 2019

Medication Management In Older People: Realist Approaches Based On Literature And Evaluation (Memorable): A Realist Synthesis, Ian Maidment, Sally Lawson, Geoff Wong, Andrew Booth, Anne Watson, Jane Mckeown, Hadar Zaman, Judy Mullan, Sylvia Bailey

Australian Health Services Research Institute

No abstract provided.


Meta-Moderation For Crowdsourced Disaster Management And Urban Participatory Applications, Robert Ighodaro Ogie, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Pascal Perez Jan 2019

Meta-Moderation For Crowdsourced Disaster Management And Urban Participatory Applications, Robert Ighodaro Ogie, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Pascal Perez

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

This paper presents the Enterprise Meta-moderation of Innovation (EMI) system, which was designed, developed, and deployed to drive innovation in MTR Corporation, Hong Kong. Although EMI was designed specifically for use in an organisation, the system can potentially be extended to serve other useful functions in society. Hence, an important aspect of this paper involves identifying and discussing key considerations that need to be addressed in order for such a system to be used in crowdsourced disaster management and other urban participatory applications. The study highlights the role of agent-based modelling in better addressing some of the socio-technical challenges identified.


Normative Data For Children And Adolescents Referred For Specialist Pain Management In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard, Meredith P. Bryce, Janelle M. White Jan 2018

Normative Data For Children And Adolescents Referred For Specialist Pain Management In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard, Meredith P. Bryce, Janelle M. White

Australian Health Services Research Institute

This paper aims to provide normative data for the PaedePPOC measures used by specialist paediatric pain management services. This information will provide a description of the children and adolescents referred for specialist pain management in Australia during the period from January 2014 to June 2018, allowing pain management services to compare scores for individuals seen at their service to these group values.


Resilience And Sustainability In The Management Of Landslides, Phillip N. Flentje, Robin N. Chowdhury Jan 2018

Resilience And Sustainability In The Management Of Landslides, Phillip N. Flentje, Robin N. Chowdhury

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

There are many regions worldwide which are susceptible to landslides, which cause loss of life and adverse impacts to infrastructure, environment and communities. Landslides are often triggered by exceptional rainfall and large-magnitude earthquakes. A range of strategies and methods have been developed to mitigate the occurrence of landslides and to reduce their impact, including risk to human safety. The adopted approaches and systems must be sustainable and resilient in relation to the communities that are at risk. This paper refers to an Australian regional case study of urban landslide management in the Wollongong region, New South Wales. The research carried …


A System Model For Personalized Medication Management (Mymediman)-The Consumers' Point Of View, Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, Khin Than Win, Willy Susilo Jan 2018

A System Model For Personalized Medication Management (Mymediman)-The Consumers' Point Of View, Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, Khin Than Win, Willy Susilo

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

In this paper, we propose a design for a personalized medication management system model MyMediMan that provides medication information for different stakeholders. The focus of the paper is on the system's features and personalized information provided for the consumers as primary users of the proposed solution. The presented design introduces the consumers to different aspects of the medications they take and their overall health condition. The personalized information should increase the consumers' awareness about the positive benefits of taking the medications as well as the consequences that particular medication can have on their health condition. By obtaining this information, the …


Normative Data For Adults Referred For Specialist Pain Management In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard, Janelle M. White, Meredith P. Bryce Jan 2018

Normative Data For Adults Referred For Specialist Pain Management In Australia, Hilarie Tardif, Megan B. Blanchard, Janelle M. White, Meredith P. Bryce

Australian Health Services Research Institute

Nicholas and colleagues have developed an extensive normative dataset for a range of assessment tools used in pain management services. The present paper aims to provide normative data for the measures used in the ePPOC minimum dataset for a large cohort of adults referred to pain management services throughout Australia. This information will provide a description of the people seeking specialist pain management in Australia during the period 2014-17, and allow pain management services to compare scores for individuals seen at their service to these group values.


Real-Time Management Of Groundwater Resource Based On Wireless Sensor Networks, Qingguo Zhou, Chong Chen, Gaofeng Zhang, Huaming Chen, Dan Chen, Yingnan Yan, Jun Shen, Rui Zhou Jan 2018

Real-Time Management Of Groundwater Resource Based On Wireless Sensor Networks, Qingguo Zhou, Chong Chen, Gaofeng Zhang, Huaming Chen, Dan Chen, Yingnan Yan, Jun Shen, Rui Zhou

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

Groundwater plays a vital role in the arid inland river basins, in which the groundwater management is critical to the sustainable development of area economy and ecology. Traditional sustainable management approaches are to analyze different scenarios subject to assumptions or to construct simulation–optimization models to obtain optimal strategy. However, groundwater system is time-varying due to exogenous inputs. In this sense, the groundwater management based on static data is relatively outdated. As part of the Heihe River Basin (HRB), which is a typical arid river basin in Northwestern China, the Daman irrigation district was selected as the study area in this …


Persuasive Systems Design Features In Promoting Medication Management For Consumers, Khin Than Win, Judy Mullan, Sarah Katherine Howard, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen Jan 2017

Persuasive Systems Design Features In Promoting Medication Management For Consumers, Khin Than Win, Judy Mullan, Sarah Katherine Howard, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

Medication safety continues to be a growing concern in the healthcare industry. Providing medication information to consumers and supporting self- management would help to reduce medication errors and to increase medication adherence. This paper reviews the persuasive systems design features used in current medication management applications for consumers. A database search was conducted to identify relevant articles, which were then reviewed using the Persuasive Systems Design model as a framework for analysis. The results highlighted the applicability of these features for the medication management information systems available to consumers. Primary task support and Dialogue support categories were highly cited in …


Nanotechnology And Nanosafety: Risk Management Of Manufactured Nanomaterials, Shahnaz Bakand, Leanne Treadwell Jan 2017

Nanotechnology And Nanosafety: Risk Management Of Manufactured Nanomaterials, Shahnaz Bakand, Leanne Treadwell

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Abstract presented at the Australasian College of Toxicology & Risk Assessment 10th Annual Scientific Meeting & Continuing Education Day, 27-29 September 2017, Canberra, Australia


Holistic Sludge Management Through Ozonation: A Critical Review, Galilee U. Semblante, Faisal I. Hai, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Kensuke Fukushi, William E. Price, Long D. Nghiem Jan 2017

Holistic Sludge Management Through Ozonation: A Critical Review, Galilee U. Semblante, Faisal I. Hai, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Kensuke Fukushi, William E. Price, Long D. Nghiem

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

This paper critically reviews the multidimensional benefits of ozonation in wastewater treatment plants. These benefits include sludge reduction, removal of emerging trace organic contaminants (TrOC) from wastewater and sludge, and resource recovery from sludge. Literature shows that ozonation leads to sludge solubilisation, reducing overall biomass yield. Sludge solubilisation is primarily influenced by ozone dosage, which, in turn, depends on the fraction of ozonated sludge, ozone concentration, and sludge concentration. Additionally, sludge ozonation facilitates the removal of TrOCs from wastewater. On the other hand, by inducing cell lysis, ozonation increases the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nutrient concentration of the sludge …


Text Data Mining Of Aged Care Accreditation Reports To Identify Risk Factors In Medication Management In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Tao Jiang, Siyu Qian, David M. Hailey, Jun Ma, Ping Yu Jan 2017

Text Data Mining Of Aged Care Accreditation Reports To Identify Risk Factors In Medication Management In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Tao Jiang, Siyu Qian, David M. Hailey, Jun Ma, Ping Yu

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

This study aimed to identify risk factors in medication management in Australian residential aged care (RAC) homes. Only 18 out of 3,607 RAC homes failed aged care accreditation standard in medication management between 7th March 2011 and 25th March 2015. Text data mining methods were used to analyse the reasons for failure. This led to the identification of 21 risk indicators for an RAC home to fail in medication management. These indicators were further grouped into ten themes. They are overall medication management, medication assessment, ordering, dispensing, storage, stock and disposal, administration, incident report, monitoring, staff and resident satisfaction. The …


Recognition And Management Of Posterior Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Leigh D. White, Joshua Wall, Thomas M. Melhuish, Ruan Vlok, Astin Lee Jan 2017

Recognition And Management Of Posterior Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Leigh D. White, Joshua Wall, Thomas M. Melhuish, Ruan Vlok, Astin Lee

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

Characteristic electrocardiogram (ECG) features of posterior myocardial infarction (PMI) do not include typical ST-segment elevation and, therefore, carries the risk of delayed diagnosis and management. The aim of this study was to investigate how well PMIs are recognised and whether a lack of recognition translates to a larger infarction. This was a retrospective cohort study of patients sourced from a cardiac catheterisation database. Based on ECG analysis, patients included in this study included those meeting PMI criteria and those meeting ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) criteria as the control group. Door-to-balloon times were used as an outcome measure for differences in …


Current Status And Future Prospects For Justice Research In Environmental Management, Anna Lukasiewicz, Stephen Dovers, Libby Robin, Jennifer Mckay, Steven Schilizzi, Sonia Graham Jan 2017

Current Status And Future Prospects For Justice Research In Environmental Management, Anna Lukasiewicz, Stephen Dovers, Libby Robin, Jennifer Mckay, Steven Schilizzi, Sonia Graham

Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Papers

No abstract provided.


Contingency Factors Influencing Implementation Of Physical Asset Management Practices, Damjan Maletic, Matjaz Maletic, Basim Al-Najjar, Katerina Gotzamani, Maria Gianni, T B. Kalinowski, Bostjan Gomiscek Jan 2017

Contingency Factors Influencing Implementation Of Physical Asset Management Practices, Damjan Maletic, Matjaz Maletic, Basim Al-Najjar, Katerina Gotzamani, Maria Gianni, T B. Kalinowski, Bostjan Gomiscek

University of Wollongong in Dubai - Papers

Purpose: The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the role of two contingency factors, i.e. uncertainty and competitiveness in relation to physical asset management (PAM) practices as well as to maintenance key performance indicators. The research is based on a premise that PAM, which was defined by risk management practices, performance assessment practices, life cycle management practices, and policy & strategy practices, has become an indispensable element of strategic thinking of asset owners as well as maintenance and asset managers. The purpose of this study is to advance the understanding of how organizations that face high or low …


Towards Cost Reduction In Cloud-Based Workflow Management Through Data Replication, Fei Xie, Jun Yan, Jun Shen Jan 2017

Towards Cost Reduction In Cloud-Based Workflow Management Through Data Replication, Fei Xie, Jun Yan, Jun Shen

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

No abstract provided.


Garden-Related Environmental Behavior And Weed Management: An Australian Case Study, Ren Hu, Nicholas J. Gill Jan 2016

Garden-Related Environmental Behavior And Weed Management: An Australian Case Study, Ren Hu, Nicholas J. Gill

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This study aims to identify the key drivers of two garden-related environmental behaviors (GEBs): plant choice and bush-friendly behavior. This is important for biodiversity conservation threatened by weed invasion from domestic gardens. The effects of self-control, time pressure, and knowledge of weed-control initiatives were examined. A mail survey was sent to suburban residents living adjacent to native bushland in Wollongong, New South Wales. Regression analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used. The path models for SEM were based on the theory of reasoned action. The results indicate that attitude, perceived harm, and knowledge of weed-control initiatives exert an effect …


Exploring The Qualitative Research On Diabetes Self-Management In Middle-Aged Population Of Rural Area Of Pakistan, Rashid M. Ansari, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Nicholas Arnold Zwar Jan 2016

Exploring The Qualitative Research On Diabetes Self-Management In Middle-Aged Population Of Rural Area Of Pakistan, Rashid M. Ansari, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Nicholas Arnold Zwar

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This review article aimed at exploring the qualitative health research in self-management of type 2 diabetes and patient's perceptions and experiences of undertaking physical activity and eating behaviour as part of their diabetes self-management. In addition, the study analyzed how the health issue related to diabetes is viewed and addressed in the community of Pakistan and used the concepts of socio-ecological approach to self-management of type 2 diabetes and explored the factors affecting the self-management practices in that country. The other objective of this review was to examine the role of physical inactivity and obesity in the development of type …


Application Of Chronic Care Model For Self-Management Of Type 2 Diabetes: Focus On The Middle-Aged Population Of Pakistan, Rashid M. Ansari, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Nicholas Arnold Zwar Jan 2016

Application Of Chronic Care Model For Self-Management Of Type 2 Diabetes: Focus On The Middle-Aged Population Of Pakistan, Rashid M. Ansari, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Nicholas Arnold Zwar

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This article discusses the potential application of Chronic Care Model (CCM) for self-management of type 2 diabetes focusing on the middle-aged population of rural area of Pakistan. The article further highlights the variations of chronic care model and the evidence for its efficacy and elaborating the elements of the model that are used in primary health care. The features of Chronic Care Model (CCM) have been highlighted including the socio-ecological approach to diabetes self-management and community-based partnership for improving chronic disease management. The two components of the chronic care model such as patient self-management support (SMS) and delivery system design …


Social Media Analysis On Evaluating Organizational Performance: A Railway Service Management, Jie Yang, Ahm Mehbub Anwar Jan 2016

Social Media Analysis On Evaluating Organizational Performance: A Railway Service Management, Jie Yang, Ahm Mehbub Anwar

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

The last decade has witnessed the dramatic expansion of online social media at the global level. It is widely believed that the influence of social media is of particular importance for public and private organisations. Unfortunately, there is very limited and anecdotal evidence to show the durable influence of social media on various components and functions within organisations. To this end, this study examines the impact of social media, particularly taking the railway services in New South Wales (NSW), Australia and the Twitter platform as an illustrative example. Topic modelling and sentiment analysis techniques are employed to analyse collected tweets …


Renewable Energy Management In A Remote Area Using Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm, Sahand Ghavidel, Jamshid Aghaei, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Alireza Heidari Jan 2016

Renewable Energy Management In A Remote Area Using Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm, Sahand Ghavidel, Jamshid Aghaei, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Alireza Heidari

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

In this paper, a small remote area which is located in Nigeria has been considered as a model to be tested by a managing scheme for providing both electricity and water. In this strategy, the groundwater is pumped into a water tank which can be later used for supplying required irrigation and drinking water. A PAT (Pump as Turbine) is used as a hybrid system for supplying electricity and water as well as storing water in the water tank. Also, a PV (photovoltaic plant), a package of batteries (BAT) in addition to a diesel ICE (internal combustion engine) are used …


A Novel Queue Management Policy For Delay-Tolerant Networks, Saeid Iranmanesh Jan 2016

A Novel Queue Management Policy For Delay-Tolerant Networks, Saeid Iranmanesh

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) have attracted increasing attention from governments, academia and industries in recent years. They are designed to provide a communication channel that exploits the inherent mobility of trams, buses and cars. However, the resulting highly dynamic network suffers from frequent disconnections, thereby making node-to-node communications extremely challenging. Researchers have thus proposed many routing/forwarding strategies in order to achieve high delivery ratios and/or low latencies and/or low overheads. Their main idea is to have nodes store and carry information bundles until a forwarding opportunity arises. This, however, creates the following problems. Nodes may have short contacts and/or insufficient buffer …


The Impact Of Electronic Health Records On Risk Management Of Information Systems In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Tao Jiang, Ping Yu, David M. Hailey, Jun Ma, Jie Yang Jan 2016

The Impact Of Electronic Health Records On Risk Management Of Information Systems In Australian Residential Aged Care Homes, Tao Jiang, Ping Yu, David M. Hailey, Jun Ma, Jie Yang

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

To obtain indications of the influence of electronic health records (EHR) in managing risks and meeting information system accreditation standard in Australian residential aged care (RAC) homes. The hypothesis to be tested is that the RAC homes using EHR have better performance in meeting information system standards in aged care accreditation than their counterparts only using paper records for information management. Content analysis of aged care accreditation reports from the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency produced between April 2011 and December 2013. Items identified included types of information systems, compliance with accreditation standards, and indicators of failure to meet …


Exploring Structure And Role Of Engineering Asset Management System In Production Organizations, Khaled O. El-Akruti, Richard Dwight, Tieling Zhang Jan 2016

Exploring Structure And Role Of Engineering Asset Management System In Production Organizations, Khaled O. El-Akruti, Richard Dwight, Tieling Zhang

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Little has been done in literature on the structure of Engineering Asset Management System (EAMS) and its relationship to production and organizational strategy. In this paper, the position of an EAMS within an organizational structure and its strategic role within a production organizations strategy has been explored. It is argued that the structure and mechanism of EAMS play a key role in directing the production process and linking to the organizational strategy: the absence or inadequacies of asset-related activities cause insufficient production performance that negatively impacts the strategic achievement. Production Actions are mapped with reference to the activities of the …


Obvladovanje Fizičnega Premoženja - Več Kot Le Vzdrževanje, Damjan Maletic, Matjaz Maletic, Bostjan Gomiscek Jan 2016

Obvladovanje Fizičnega Premoženja - Več Kot Le Vzdrževanje, Damjan Maletic, Matjaz Maletic, Bostjan Gomiscek

University of Wollongong in Dubai - Papers

Many organisations invest a considerable amount of capital and resources, implementing new techniques to improve their performance. An effective management of production and maintenance and processes is vital for economic viability and a long-term survival of many industries. In this paper, we present the physical asset management as an area that can support organizations in improving their efficiency and effectiveness. We have identified four key areas, namely policy & strategy, risk management, performance assessment, life cycle management. As such, the findings provided in this study can help managers to recognize the key physical asset management practices. This paper concludes with …