Outcomes of aortic valve surgery for rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous Australians: a 27-year longitudinal study by Rohen Skiba, Tim Soon Cheok, D.-Yin Lin, Craig Morrison, Gareth Crouch, Stewart R. Anderson, Gregory Rice, Jayme Bennetts

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Teaching Practical Legal Problem Solving Skills: Preparing Law Students for the Realities of Legal Life by Celia Hammond

“…“ABSENCE OF A LARGER VISION” Tan Le, 1998 Young Australian of the Year, wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 March 1999: Let me illustrate from my experience. …”
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Save the Bees and Save Ourselves: Young People’s Cli-Fi as Normative Myths of the Future by Joseph Paul Ferguson, Peta J. White

“…We co-designed a bee sequence with a specialist primary science teacher at an Australian government school. Year 6 students learned about European honeybees and Australian native bees, including through Cli-Fi. …”
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Economic evaluation protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial to compare Smartphone Cardiac Rehabilitation, Assisted self-Management (SCRAM) versus usual care cardiac... by Clara Chow, John Amerena, Marj Moodie, Kylie Ball, Brian Oldenburg, Jonathan Rawstorn, Sarah McNaughton, Karen Lamb, Voltaire Nadurata, Christopher Neil, Stuart Cameron

“…All costs will be valued in Australian dollars for year 2020.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol has been approved under Australia’s National Mutual Acceptance agreement by the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/18/MH/119). …”
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The Effectiveness of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review of Recent International and Australian Research by Cadeyrn Gaskin

“…A systematic review of recent (last five years) and Australian (last 10 years) papers using MEDLINE Complete and PsycINFO was performed. …”
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The Effectiveness of Supportive Counselling, Based on Rogerian Principles: A Systematic Review of Recent International and Australian Research by Nicky Jacobs, Andrea Reupert

“…This review of recent international (last five years) and Australian (last ten years) papers was employed using the PsycINFO, Ovid Medline, APAIS (Informit), Web of Science and Social Services Abstracts data bases. …”
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The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on the Well‐Being of People With Borderline Personality Disorder: A National Australian Study by Parvaneh Heidari, Jillian H. Broadbear, Marita Mohammadshahi, Farzaneh Foroughinia, Rita Brown, Sathya Rao

“…An online survey asked Australian residents (≥ 18 years) who self‐identified with having a diagnosis of BPD, about their experience of “coronaphobia” using the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) as well as using open‐ and close‐ended questions to measure demographic and health information. …”
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Dental Visiting Patterns and Their Associations With Dental Caries and Periodontal Diseases by Najith Amarasena, Liana Luzzi, Sergio Chrisopoulos, Gloria Mejia

“…Materials and Methods A three‐stage stratified probability sampling design was used to randomly select a cross‐section of Australians aged 15+ years. Self‐reported oral health and related information was obtained using questionnaire‐based interviews. …”
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Sudden cardiac death in young First Nations Australians in the Northern Territory, Australia: Potential implications for pre-participation screeningKey Points by Sonali Pande, Viran DeSilva, Elizabeth Paratz, Marianne Tiemensma, Nadarajah Kangaharan

“…Results: A total of 59 SCD cases in First Nations Australians under 40 years of age were recorded in the Northern Territory with an annual incidence of 19.8 cases per 100,000 persons. …”
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Association of Continuity of Primary Care and Statin Adherence. by James R Warren, Michael O Falster, Bich Tran, Louisa Jorm

“…<h4>Research design</h4>We linked data from a prospective study of 267,091 Australians aged 45 years and over to national data sets on prescription reimbursements, general practice claims, hospitalisations and deaths. …”
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Relationship of tobacco smoking to cause-specific mortality: contemporary estimates from Australia by Grace Joshy, Kay Soga, Katherine A. Thurber, Sam Egger, Marianne F. Weber, Peter Sarich, Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J. Korda, Amelia Yazidjoglou, Mai T H Nguyen, Ellie Paige, Michelle Gourley, Karen Canfell, Emily Banks

“…In 2019, 24,285 deaths (one-in-every-six deaths, 15.3%), among Australians aged ≥ 45 years, were attributable to tobacco smoking. …”
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A comparison of cognitive and health assessment tools used in a dementia prevention and risk management program for urban-dwelling older aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA) by Zoë Hyde, Carmela Pestell, Lynette Yappo, Glennette Dowden, Alex Lalovic, Lesley Markey, Michael Bynder, Emma-Jane Hunt, Dawn Bessarab, Kay Cox, Leon Flicker, Dina LoGiudice, Keith D. Hill, Sandra Thompson, Aaron Basile, Kate Smith

“…Background: In partnership with Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, we developed a dementia risk management and prevention program for Aboriginal Australians aged ≥45 years. In this study, we report neuropsychological assessment data for people who underwent eligibility screening and baseline assessment and explore associations between the cognitive assessment tools used. …”
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