Archive - Publications and resources

In the media 2020

• Australian Financial Review - Fragile situation: Can Australia keep Covid-19 at bay?
• The Lighthouse - Testing everyone is key to limit COVID-19
• The Health Advocate AHHA - Unlocking pathology data
• The Health Advocate AHHA - Transforming medication management
• Australian Ageing Agenda: Study highlights data gaps in residents' health status
• Sydney Morning Herald - Far from happy bowels: the most common condition afflicting aged care residents
• MAJ Insight+ - Speaking up for patient and health worker safety. World Patient Safety Day
• MJA Insight+ - AI in health care: Australia in danger of lagging behind
• MJA Insight+ - Drug resistant epilepsy
• SBS Insight - Broken bones and hospital visits
• Essential Kids - How children break their bones
• The Lighthouse - Study probes parallel health crisis
• Sunday Telegraph - War on truth
• Australian Financial Review - Australia joins world first AI group
• MJA Insight+ - Bridging the gap between common sense and the nanny state
• Research Australia - CareTrack Kids
• The Lighthouse - How chatbots support us in COVID-19
• Croakey - Amid the rush to telehealth, let's ensure we address these cautions
• Croakey - Some timely suggestions for social care for older people
• Croakey - ISO a spur to think about social prescribing
• CHF Healthy Voices - Walking and talking our way to good health
• The Health Advocate AHHA - Keeping people out of hospital
• The Health Advocate AHHA - Safety and speed in emergency departments
• 10 Daily News and Australian National Review - One in six surgical instruments accidentally left inside Aussie patients goes undetected
• 7news.com.au and AAP News - Sponge left inside patients
• Channel 9 News - It's been reported that tiredness, lack of communication and interruptions during complex operations are the main factors why surgical tools are left inside patients 1 May 2020
• 3AW 693 Radio Breakfast - Research shows how often doctors accidentally leave surgical tools inside us
• ABC Radio National Melbourne Drive - interview with Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite 24 April 2020
• MJA Insight+ - COVID-19 is opening up fault lines in the health care system
• ISQua Blog - The unfinished Australian jigsaw puzzle
• Research Australia - Research improves the early detection of sepsis
• ABC Radio National Melbourne Drive - interview with Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite 31 March 2020
• The Lighthouse - Five crucial tips for parents of children with head injuries
• MJA Insight+ - COVID-19: we need health services researchers in hospitals now
• The Lighthouse - Fewer medication mistakes in children's hospitals will save millions
• Voicebot.ai - Voice assistants don't often know how to respond
• 10 Daily News - Children's hospital sees dramatic drop in medication mishaps under new e-system
• The Lighthouse - Hey Siri, I'm so depressed
• The Lighthouse - Why so few people get help with hearing
• The Conversation - What is a rare disease? It’s not as simple as it sounds
• MJA Insight+ - Does hospital quality management make a difference to patients?
• Mirage News - Social prescribing – a remedy to counter chronic health problems
• MJA Insight+ - Nudging: can letters to GPs reduce antipsychotics in aged care?
• The Lighthouse - Doing nothing for cancer patients is sometimes better than aggressive treatments
• ABC Radio National The Health Report - Is Australia's healthcare system prepared for increases in chronic illness?

In the media 2017-2018

• Sydney Morning Herald: Spoonfuls of advice help the medicine go down - 28 Mar 2018
• The Health Advocate: Where have all my friends gone? Ageing well and targeting loneliness and isolation - Oct 2017
• Australian Ageing Agenda: Research shines spotlight on best practice implementation - Dec 2017

Reports and monographs

• Evaluation of negotiation skills training at Townsville Hospital and Health Service
• Hospitalised injury in NSW: A geographic comparison
• Stocktake of data sources for childhood injury in NSW
• Frequency and variability of haemolysis reporting
• What is the evidence regarding the use of telephone triage protocols during nurse video consultations?
• Secondary ambulance triage service models and outcomes: A review of the evidence
• The impact of the implementation of electronic ordering on hospital pathology services
• Change management strategies and practice development in nursing: A review of the literature
• Medical electronic systems in oncology: A review of the literature
• Doctors in Management: A systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature
• Network by network: Transforming health care in Australasia. Lessons from ‘Network to Network 2010: The Inaugural Australasian Clinical Networks Conference'
• Communities of practice in the health sector: A systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature
• Staff survey on patient safety

Presentations

• Presentations at HIC 2016: 25-27 Jul 2016
• AIHI research symposium - Mar 2015
• The leader as systems thinker
• Practical-strategies

Research insights

• Research insights - Sep 2017
• Research insights - Sep 2016

Newsletters

Safety and Health Informatics in Practice series (SHIPS)

• ICT and impacts on work practice in the ICU - work in progress - Site 3
• Impact of information technology on quality of care in emergency departments
• Impact of PACS on ICU nursing work practices
• Can technology change the work of nurses? Evaluation of an electronic drug monitoring system used in an ambulatory rheumatology setting
• ICT and impacts on work practice in the ICU - work in progress - Site 1
• Intravenous (IV) medication administration errors in hospitals
• Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of coagulation testing
• Interruptions and medication administration errors

Evidence briefings on interventions to improve medication safety

Current Publications and resources