Australian Health Review

Article	Citations
It is time to stop blaming the pandemic	24
Policy Reflections on digital health	23
Table of Contents	22
Should Australian laws regulating embryo research be reformed? A call for commonwealth review	21
Geospatial distribution of tertiary hospitals across Australian cities	19
Development of a novel and more holistic approach for assessing impact in health and medical research: the Research Impact Assessment Framework	19
A whole-of-community program of advance care planning for end-of-life care	19
Federated health system governance in the post-COVID-19 era	18
Table of Contents	16
COVID-19 revisited – is a national pandemic plan possible?	16
Data linkage for healthcare research: basics and important considerations	14
Effect of comorbidities on inpatient rehabilitation outcomes following non-traumatic lower limb amputations in Australia and New Zealand	13
Do Australian state and territory cancer plans include survivorship-related objectives and propose quality survivorship outcomes and measures?	12
Enhancing person-centred care and access to primary care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	12
Corrigendum to: A survey of Australian public opinion on using comorbidity to triage intensive care patients in a pandemic	11
Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study	11
Outlier or handover: outcomes for General Medicine inpatients	11
Adaptive leadership in health care: a rapid review	10
Translational research in Australian mental health policy: a scoping review	10
Environmental impact of travel to neurosurgery outpatient appointments in South Australia	10
Risk of hospital admission or emergency department presentation due to diabetes complications: a retrospective cohort study in Tasmania, Australia	9
Exploring interdisciplinary communication pathways for escalating pre-medical emergency team deterioration: a mixed-methods study	9
Lessons from the ‘legitimate’ misuse of Medicare Benefits Schedule Item 45503	9
Chronic diseases and their behavioural risk factors among South Asian immigrants in Australia	9
Feasibility of an allied health led, workplace delivered Long COVID service for hospital staff: a mixed-methods study	9

Sociodemographic and clinical factors affecting advance care planning: results from a large community cohort in New South Wales, Australia	9
Taking a value based commissioning approach to non-clinical and clinical support services	8
Clinical documentation requirements for the accurate coding of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections in Australia	8
Is a wholistic quality improvement program to reduce hospital-acquired complications economically viable in an Australian local health service?	8
The current state of legislation and education of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Australia	8
Physiotherapy-led lung ultrasound in acute cardiorespiratory physiotherapy	8
Corrigendum to: Telehealth use in Voluntary Assisted Dying: a systematic review	8
Navigating medication safety with electronic medical records: insights from a dual-phase implementation in paediatric, neonatal and maternity care	7
A guide to using measures of socio-economic status, remoteness and population denominators from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for epidemiological studies	7
Higher fees and out-of-pocket costs in radiotherapy point to a need for funding reform	7
Identifying opportunities to optimise the electronic medical record for allied health professionals: a concept mapping study	7
Consumer involvement in health service research: a cross-sectional survey of staff in an Australian public hospital and health service	7
Exploring the unique value of clinician scientist roles to the health services in which they are employed: a scoping review	7
Workforce training needs to address social and emotional wellbeing in home-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care	7
Worsening psychological wellbeing of Australian hospital clinical staff during three waves of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic	7
Corrigendum to : Out-of-pocket payments: impacts on healthcare decision-making and system and individual level measures to minimise the burden	7
What factors affect the recruitment and retention of allied health professionals working in hospitals? A systematic literature review	7
Table of Contents	6
Corrigendum to: Variation in direct healthcare costs to the health system by residents living in long-term care facilities: a Registry of Senior Australians study	6
Health policy evaluation in rural and remote Australia: a qualitative exploration and lessons from the Northern Territory	6
Table of Contents	6
‘The time for experimenting on patients is over’: a policy scan and qualitative study of doctors’ experience with the oversight of clinical innovation in Australia	6
Table of Contents	6
A ‘True North Statement for Care’: charting the course to better care for all Australians	6
Evaluation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outpatient Clinic: a mixed-methods study	6
Mapping service standards and guidelines to support accreditation processes – a case study of a collaborative effort worth replicating	5
Is HealthPathways viewed as a useful and trustworthy source of information by health professionals?	5
Table of Contents	5
The role of private hospitals in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic – focus on digital health	5
Changes in paediatric Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Victoria, 2018–20: the COVID-19 effect?	5
Lived Experience Advisor Program initiative: harnessing consumer leadership for best care	5
Is cost a barrier to general practice for Australians with mental illness?	5
Telehealth sustainability after COVID-19 – can you see me by video?	5
Evaluating the weighting of extracurricular involvement in standardised curriculum vitae scoring criteria for entrance into Australian medical and surgical speciality training programs	5
Physiotherapy-led bronchoscopy in the ICU	5
Perceived benefits of accessing a children’s sensory garden in a healthcare setting	4
Re-admission following discharge from a Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit: identification of risk factors	4
Promoting access to voluntary assisted dying: an interpretivist exploratory study of health services in Queensland, Australia	4
From integrated care to value-based healthcare in New South Wales	4
The role of Medicare policy in fertility treatment decisions: perceptions of Australians considering, undertaking or who have undertaken medically assisted reproduction treatment	4
Effect and illustrative costs of downscheduling on government subsidised dispensings of triptans in Australia: a 10-year analysis	4
Challenges for mental health planning in Australia	4
Patient and family complaints concerning nursing and midwifery care: applying a taxonomy to classify and analyse consumer complaints	4
Trajectories of hospital service use in the last 12 months of life by people with chronic kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study	4
Health systems model for chronic disease secondary prevention in rural and remote areas – Chronic disease: Road to health	4
Accurate calculations of out-of-pocket costs for mental healthcare consultations	4
We have to set the bar higher: towards consumer leadership, beyond engagement or involvement	4
The influence of specialty training selection criteria on medical students’ career pathway choices in Australia	4
Emergency clinician perceptions of patients who present frequently to the emergency department: a snapshot of current practice	4
General practice experiences of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: lessons for primary care reform	4

Allied health matters for people with young-onset dementia on the National Disability Insurance Scheme	4
Evaluating the research capacity and culture of an urban Mental Health and Wellbeing Program	4
Pattern of hospital admissions and costs associated with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia, 2012–2017	4
An analysis of legislation and policies that guide maternity leave decision making in Australian midwifery students	4
Chronic breathlessness is associated with much longer lengths of hospital stay	4
Assessing the value of online palliative care information	4
Virtual visiting in the intensive care unit: implementation, utilisation and provider acceptance in an Australian metropolitan health service	4
The carbon footprint of total knee replacements	4
Cost-effectiveness of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine program	4
The effect of dietitian universal nutrition assessment and malnutrition documentation on patient nutritional care and revenue in an acute care hospital	4
Clinician perspectives on rapid transition to telehealth during COVID-19 in Australia – a qualitative study	4
Making good on the promise of genomics in healthcare: the NSW Health perspective	4
Peripheral intravenous catheter policies and procedures across Queensland: a document review and analysis of underpinning evidence and alignment with clinical standards	4
Factors associated with Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee decisions for listing medicines for diabetes and its associated complications	4
Projecting the future: modelling Australian dialysis prevalence 2021–30	4
The Clinical Trials Assistance Pilot: reducing the financial burden of cancer clinical trials for patients in regional New South Wales	4
Adapting to change: exploring perceptions and demands of the coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce changes – an Australian multi-institutional radiation oncology survey	4
If not now, when? Implementation failure of a rights- and value-based policy agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health	4
Driving value-based healthcare through a new vision for Queensland’s health system	4
Comparison of patient responses to telehealth satisfaction surveys in rural and urban populations in Queensland	3
An undignified disaster reality for Australians with disability	3
Profile and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related hospital admissions within four public hospitals in New South Wales between 2011 and 2021	3
Scope of practice regulation in medicine: balancing patient safety, access to care and professional autonomy	3
Corrigendum to: Measuring clinician experience in value-based health care initiatives: a 10-item core clinician experience measure	3
‘Booking’ fees for private hospital patients	3
Table of Contents	3
Qualitative exploration of Australian Muslim patients’ perceptions and experiences surrounding medication management during Ramadan	3
Rheumatic heart disease 2025 – current status and future challenges	3
Perceptions of service quality in Victorian public dental clinics using Google patient reviews	3
Worsening general health and psychosocial wellbeing of Australian hospital allied health practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Mandatory and statutory compliance screening for undergraduate nursing students in Australia: a review of compliance requirements	3
The profile, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of alcohol- and non-alcohol-related patient presentations to Queensland emergency departments: a multi-site observational study	3
The financial implications of investigating false-positive and true-positive mammograms in a national breast cancer screening program	3
Pandemic planning: data, information and evidence	3
External validation of the Health Care Homes hospital admission risk stratification tool in the Aboriginal Australian population of the Northern Territory	3
Prevalence and characteristics of potentially avoidable unplanned readmissions: a retrospective cohort study	3
The unfulfilled promises of electronic health records	3
Table of Contents	3
Examining the workplace rights of mental health consumer workers	3
Corrigendum to : Is Australia’s lack of national clinical leadership hampering efforts with the oral health policy agenda?	3
The treatment gap for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: a comparative analysis of cost and utilisation in high-income countries	3
Time to analgesia for musculoskeletal presentations in Tasmanian emergency departments: a case-controlled comparative observational study investigating the impact of advanced practice physiotherapists	3
Creating a framework for change: transitioning to value-based healthcare in Queensland	3
Surgical site infection surveillance in Australian public and private hospitals: a comparative analysis	3
Editorial	3
Client and staff perspectives regarding effective work injury rehabilitation	3
Table of Contents	3
The development and implementation of the Northern Health lung cancer digital care pathway: a case study in service change	3
Paramedic to general practitioner referral pathways within Australian jurisdictional ambulance clinical practice guidelines: a document analysis	3
Clinical concern and the deteriorating patient: a review of rapid response 2018–20	3
Use of priority and provisional approval pathways by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration in approving new medicines: a cross-sectional study	2
Environmental, Social and Governance principles in Australian publicly funded healthcare: an extension of value-based care	2
Influence of nurses in the implementation of artificial intelligence in health care: a scoping review	2
Patients’ reasons for leaving an emergency department without being seen: results from a survey-based cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Table of Contents and Advertisements	2
Government-supported clinical knowledge and information resource portals are key to ensuring quality, safe health care and evidence-based practice – the Australian context	2
Impacts of eHealth on hospitals: an updated narrative review of systematic reviews	2
A conceptual framework to support hospitals to measure and realise financial benefits from process improvement programs: perspectives from Australia, USA and UK	2
Experiences of allied health clinicians and tertiary educators working in and teaching palliative care – a qualitative study	2
Evaluating the impact of junior doctors in quality improvement – a 10-year review	2
Experiences and learnings from developing and implementing a co-designed value-based healthcare framework within Victorian public oral health sector	2
A pilot model of care to achieve next-day discharge in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty in an Australian public hospital setting	2
Assessing the implementation of a career development framework targeting early career allied health professionals	2
Predicting hospital bed utilisation for post-surgical care by means of the Monte Carlo method with historical data	2
Navigating the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: federal versus state government funding for high-cost medicines – a problem for public hospitals	2
A framework for de-identification of free-text data in electronic medical records enabling secondary use	2
State- and territory-based differences that impede the establishment of a harmonised national registry	2
Have we [fully] untapped the potential of allied health in the Australian healthcare system?	2
Australia’s healthcare workforce at breaking point: time for bold reform	2
Hospitalisations and emergency department presentations by older individuals accessing long-term aged care in Australia	2
Measuring clinician experience in value-based healthcare initiatives: a 10-item core clinician experience measure (CEM-10)	2
A novel format for management of intravenous medication guidelines – a pharmacist-led guideline working group	2
Potential therapeutic value of new drugs approved in Australia: a retrospective cohort study	2
Partnering with consumers and practising clinicians to establish research priorities for public hospital maternity services	2
Telehealth, care access and workforce – are the stars finally aligning?	2
Intensive care utilisation after elective surgery in Australia and New Zealand: getting the balance right	2
Assessing the research capacity and culture of allied health workforce in a national private healthcare organisation	2
Leading innovation in transdisciplinary care	2
Review of Australia’s funding commitments for suicide prevention from 2021–22 to 2026–27	2
Mental health reform: where are we in 2024?	2

What are the cost and resource implications of voluntary assisted dying and euthanasia?	2
What’s in a name? Why the proposed title change for podiatric surgeons is a step backward	2
The contribution of rural primary health care to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination program	2
Exploring equity of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within the state-wide Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multi-disciplinary Service in Queensland Health	2
Preferences of parents for mental health services to suit children with chronic medical conditions	2
Hospital visiting hours – do they need to be revised?	2
What would it take to improve the uptake and utilisation of mHealth applications among older Australians? A qualitative study	2
What kind of intelligence belongs in aged care? Why values – not just data – must drive artificial intelligence adoption in aged care systems	2
Costs of major complications in people with and without diabetes in Tasmania, Australia	2
Health workforce policy in Queensland: mapping the state government landscape	2
The value equation: realising value based-health care’s disruptive potential	2
Persistent opioid use after hospital discharge in Australia: a systematic review	2
Change in costs to funders of maternity care over time: an analysis of Queensland births	2
Exploring palliative care practice and learning needs of allied health professionals in the Loddon Mallee region of Victoria: a cross-sectional survey	2
Emerging health and social policy considerations for safe and quality end-of-life care in Australia – the evidence, gaps and challenges	2
Referral reasons to a Victorian mental health triage service for individuals living with young-onset dementia	2
Physicians’ legal duty to disclose more cost-effective treatment options: an examination of Australian civil law applied to personal importation	2
Response to ‘A collaborative approach to support people with a disability living in Australian group homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study’	2
A survey of Australian public opinion on using comorbidity to triage intensive care patients in a pandemic	2
Accuracy of medication allergy documentation in My Health Record after severe adverse drug reactions	2
Integrating cybersecurity into healthcare quality governance: a policy perspective on artificial intelligence risks in Australia	2
Australian sonographers – sound policy for progress?	2
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, acceptance and informational needs in an Australian cancer population: a cross-sectional survey	2
Establishing a ‘Virtual’ model of emergency care in Melbourne’s southeast	2
Telehealth use in Voluntary Assisted Dying: a systematic review	2
Developing best practice principles for enhancing engagement with consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in cancer services	2
Government-subsidised mental health services are underused in Australian residential aged care facilities	2
Obstacles in establishing a national disease registry in Australia: lessons from the development of the CHAANZ Congenital Heart Disease Registry	1
Reporting Indigenous status, ethnicity, language and country of birth to build equity in international paediatric clinical trials with Australian sites: a scoping review	1
Evaluating anti-bullying training in surgery: surgeons’ perceptions from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Optimal cancer care pathways – the ideal versus reality for patient-centric cancer care during COVID-19	1
Improving inpatient mental health nurses practice through the use of a standardised instrument	1
Comparison of systems thinking and perceptions and attitudes regarding interprofessional collaborative practice across professional groups in a large public health service	1
Models of care for voluntary assisted dying: a qualitative study of Queensland’s approach in its first year of operation	1
A digitally enabled health workforce for Australia	1
Standardising workforce cost estimates across Australian jurisdictions: genomic testing as a use case	1
Artificial intelligence medical scribes in allied health: a solution in search of evidence?	1
Use and cost of Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme services following inpatient rehabilitation for acquired disability in Australia	1
Comparison of a visiting subspecialist ophthalmology service to Royal Darwin Hospital with interstate transfers: costs and clinical outcomes of treatment	1
Delivering complex surgical services: lessons learned from the evolution of a specialised pelvic exenteration centre	1
Enhancing digital healthcare: aligning Australia’s digital health strategies with value-based healthcare principles	1
Application of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas in cardiovascular disease research: a scoping review identifying implications for research	1
Can I record this? A scoping review of Australian hospital policies governing consultation recording	1
Comprehensive day-to-day care and support needs of older Australians requiring government-funded home-based aged care: a scoping review	1
Navigating ethical landscapes and resolving grievances: cornerstones of value-based healthcare	1
Placement poverty has major implications for the future health and education workforce: a cross-sectional survey	1
Nurse job task analysis: a profile of medical and surgical nursing activities	1
Medicare reimbursed telehealth exercise physiology services were underutilised through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: an ecological study	1
A community of practice to address system-based issues and promote clinical leadership among trainee medical officers in a large public health service: an evaluation of a trainee-led forum	1
Disease and economic burden of infections in hospitalised children in New South Wales, Australia	1
General practice accreditation – does time spent on-site matter?	1
Temporal trends in medical device implant procedures in Australia 2008–22: evidence from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Hospital Morbidity database	1
The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce	1
Mitigating the consequences of electronic health record data breaches for patients and healthcare workers	1
Evolution of the health workforce: lessons from the past for the future	1
Emergency department presentations and 30-day mortality in patients from residential aged care facilities	1
In Australian hospitals and residential aged care facilities, how do we train nursing and direct care staff to assist patients and residents to move? A national survey	1
MindLink: preliminary evidence on a virtual Community of Practice for child and adolescent mental health in the Australian context	1
Increase in telemental health services on the Medicare Benefits Schedule after the start of the coronavirus pandemic: data from 2019 to 2021	1
Table of Contents	1
Out-of-pocket payments: impacts on healthcare decision-making and system and individual level measures to minimise the burden	1
Addressing unnecessary and avoidable transfers from residential aged care to emergency departments and hospitals	1
Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee post-implementation review of MBS telehealth items: abolition of initial telehealth consultations for non-general practitioner specialists	1
Table of Contents	1
Allied health and the frail patient in hospital – a prospective cohort study	1
Corrigendum to: Chronic breathlessness is associated with much longer lengths of hospital stay	1
Cardiac arrest in Australia: a call to action	1
Value: in the eyes of the beholden	1
The creation of Grampians Health – a case study focusing on lessons learned from a health service merger	1
Development of the ‘AusPROM’ recommendations for elective surgery patients	1
Turnover factors and retention strategies for chief executive officers in Australian hospitals	1
‘The [AMA] doth protest too much, methinks’	1
The incidence of personal importation of prescription medicines among Australians 45 and older: a cross-sectional survey	1
Experience of primary caregivers in utilising an mHealth application for remote dental screening in preschool children	1
Deterioration of mild anxiety and depression with Better Access treatment: implications for scaling up psychotherapy worldwide	1
Investigating allied health professionals’ attitudes, perceptions and acceptance of an electronic medical record using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology	1
Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate in Victoria, Australia; unintended consequences of changing Medicare Benefits Schedule access	1
An assessment of the accuracy of surgical time estimation by orthopaedic theatre staff	1
Corrigendum to : Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access and use of health services by middle-aged and older Australians	1
Improving dementia and palliative care through the co-design of an integrated model of care	1
Association between COVID-19 restrictions and emergency department presentations for paediatric mental health in Victoria, Australia	1
Corporatisation without clarity: empirical gaps in Australian general practice data	1
Leveraging existing data to improve antimicrobial resistance-related mortality estimates for Australia	1
The impact of management option on out-of-pocket costs and perceived financial burden among men with localised prostate cancer in Australia within 6 months of diagnosis	1
Oral health services provided for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia: a scoping review	1
The impact of standardised goals of care documentation on the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, and intensive care unit admissions in older patients: a retrospective observ	1
Perceptions of research capacity in public health organisations: comparison of NSW metropolitan and non-metropolitan Local Health Districts	1
Creating COVID-19 surge capacity at an elective surgical centre: a model for perioperative care	1
Antimicrobial surveillance in South Australian prisons: a pilot study	1
Retention and attrition of chiropractors in Australia: the Workforce Retention and Attrition Project	1
Too few health library workers: a national benchmarking study of staffing and structure in health libraries	1
Digital dashboards: a speech pathology case study	1
External validation and comparative analysis of the HOSPITAL score and LACE index for predicting readmissions among patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia in Australia	1
Hospital staff perspectives on the cost and efficiency of peripheral intravenous catheter use: a case study from three Australian hospitals	1
Healthcare practitioner use of real-time prescription monitoring tools: an online survey	1