Psychosocial volunteer support for older adults with cognitive impairment: development of MyCare Ageing using a codesign approach via action research by Dave Vicary, Velandai K Srikanth, Darshini Ayton, Renée O'donnell, Helen Skouteris, Catherine Bateman, Chris Moran, Julie Lustig, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Peter Hunter, Elizabeth Pritchard, Heather Morris, Melissa Savaglio, Seema Parikh

“…The aim of this study was to use a codesign approach to develop MyCare Ageing, a programme that will train volunteers to provide psychosocial support to older people with dementia and/or delirium in hospital and at home when discharged from hospital.Setting Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Research design This study adopts an action research methodology. …”
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Evaluating the implementation of a digital coordination centre in an Australian hospital setting: a mixed method study protocol by Timothy N Fazio, Daniel Capurro, Colin Malone, Sam Freeman, Wynona Black, Wendy W Chapman, Jana Gazarek, Meredith J Layton, Kayley Lyons, Laura Pumo, Samantha Plumb, Brad Astbury

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Supervised Injecting Room Cohort Study (SIRX): study protocol by Lisa Maher, Thomas Kerr, Matthew Hickman, Alexander Thompson, Peter Higgs, Paul Dietze, Paul A Agius, Nick Scott, Daniel O’Keefe, Mark A Stoové, Jack Stone, Dylan Vella-Horne, Ashleigh C Stewart, Amanda Roxburgh, Sione Crawford, Josephine Norman, Zachary Lloyd, Nico Clark

“…Summary findings via accessible outputs (eg, short infographic summaries) for participants will be displayed in relevant services including the Melbourne MSIR and the study van, and distributed via Harm Reduction Victoria.…”
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A Novel Robotic Technique for Mapping Patellofemoral Kinematics in Total Knee Arthroplasty by Edward O’Bryan, MBBS (Hons), FRACS, FAOA, Christopher Jones, MBBS, FRACS, FAOA, Samuel Joseph, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthoA

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Preoperative Alpha-Fetoprotein Slope is Predictive of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Liver Transplantation by Kathy Han, George N Tzimas, Jeffrey S Barkun, Peter Metrakos, Jean I Tchervenkov, Nir Hilzenrat, Phil Wong, M Deschênes

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Immune and genomic biomarkers of immunotherapy response in cancer of unknown primary by Madhu Singh, Linda Mileshkin, Penelope Schofield, Bo Gao, Gary Richardson, Andrew Pattison, Rodney J Hicks, Niko Thio, Mark Warren, Colin Wood, Stephen B Fox, Anna DeFazio, Andrew Fellowes, Christopher Steer, David Bowtell, Nicholas Wilcken, Tharani Sivakumaran, Atara Posner, Dariush Etemadmoghadam, Krista Fisher, Samantha Webb, Christos S Karapetis, Ian M Collins, Narayan Karanth, Owen W J Prall, Richard William Tothill

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Barriers and facilitators to data-based decision making in Australian early childhood education and care: A qualitative study by Shauna Sherker, Karen Villanueva, Ruth Beatson, Caitlin M. Macmillan, Wan Yi Lee, Olivia Hilton, Carly Molloy, Sharon Goldfeld

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Letters to the Editor by Stephanie Carpentier, Mamatha Bhat, Marc Deschenes, Philip Wong, Peter Ghali, Giada Sebastiani

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Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy from Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma by Dhruv Nayyar, Kavitha Muthiah, Christopher S. Hayward, Zerlene Lim, Emily K. Granger, Mark Nicholls, Allan R. Glanville

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Changing consumption of resources for respiratory support and short-term outcomes in four consecutive geographical cohorts of infants born extremely preterm over 25 years since the... by Alicia J Spittle, Lex W Doyle, Peter J Anderson, Li Huang, Jeanie L Y Cheong, Alice C Burnett, Anjali Haikerwal, Merilyn Bear, Margaret Charlton, Janet Courtot, Noni Davis, Julianne Duff, Rachel Ellis, Marie Hayes, Elisha Josev, Elaine Kelly, Marion Mcdonald, Emma Mcinnes, Bronwyn Novella, Gillian Opie, Gehan Roberts, Katherine Scott, Penelope Stevens, Anne-marie Turner, Kim M Dalziel, Katherine Lee, Marissa Clark, Joy E Olsen, Rosemarie A Boland, Alice E Stewart, Leah M Hickey

“…We aimed to determine changes in respiratory support, survival and morbidity in EP infants since the early 1990s.Design Prospective longitudinal cohort study.Setting The State of Victoria, Australia.Participants All EP births offered intensive care in four discrete eras (1991–1992 (24 months): n=332, 1997 (12 months): n=190, 2005 (12 months): n=229, and April 2016–March 2017 (12 months): n=250).Outcome measures Consumption of respiratory support, survival and morbidity to discharge home. …”
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A systematic review on how primary care electronic medical record data have been used for antimicrobial stewardship by Ron Cheah, Caroline Chen, Daniel Capurro, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Vlada Rozova, Karin Thursky

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Curative Treatment for Esophageal Cancer: Vancouver Island Cancer Centre Experience from 1993 to 1998 by Kenneth S Wilson, Amanda G Wilson, Gary J Dewar

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Protocol for a multisite randomised controlled trial assessing the effect of the Telehealth for Early Developmental Intervention in babies born very preterm (TEDI-Prem) programme o... by Alicia J Spittle, Peter J Anderson, Angela T Morgan, Rachel Schembri, Li Huang, Kim Dalziel, Rod W Hunt, Katherine Lee, Anne E Holland, Karli Treyvaud, Abbey L Eeles, Stacey Dusing, Shaaron Brown, Susan M Fehring, Gillian Henty, Elizabeth Kozaris

“…Here we present the protocol outlining a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial to determine the efficacy of TEDI-Prem plus usual care, compared with usual care alone.Methods and analysis We will recruit 466 VPT infants from the neonatal units of five hospitals in Victoria, Australia. Participants will be randomised, stratified by site of recruitment and multiple births, to TEDI-Prem plus usual care or usual care alone. …”
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Giant Malignant Phyllodes Tumour of Breast by Ramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy, Thejas Savasere, Vinod Kumar Prabhuswamy, Rajashekhara Babu, Sadashivaiah Shivaswamy

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New Approaches to Regulating the Chondroitin/Dermatan Sulfate Glycosaminoglycan Component of the Vascular Extracellular Matrix by Julie Nigro, Mandy L. Ballinger, Soniya Survase, Narin Osman, Peter J. Little

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Intensified and Accelerated Rescue Infliximab Therapy for Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis in Pregnancy: A Case Report by Saiumaeswar Yogakanthi, Timothy Phan, Emma Flanagan, Linda Yang, Chamara Basnayake, Iniyaval Thevathasan, Julien Schulberg

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Ancient and contemporary shellfish cultivation practices bolster bivalve communities and diversity‐biomass relationships by Kieran D. Cox, Hailey L. Davies, Ben Millard‐Martin, Morgan Black, Margot Hessing‐Lewis, Nicole F. Smith, Francis Juanes, Sarah E. Dudas

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Feedback of aggregate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) data to clinicians and hospital end users: findings from an Australian codesign workshop process by Monique F Kilkenny, Dominique A Cadilhac, Shaun L Hancock, Violet Marion, Paulette Kelly, Sibilah Breen, Benjamin Clissold, Lauren Sanders, Olivia Francis Ryan, Penina Gunzburg, Shae Cooke, Lauren Guy

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Six months of hybrid closed-loop therapy improves diabetes-specific positive well-being, and reduces diabetes distress and fear of hypoglycemia: secondary analysis of a randomized... by Anthony C Keech, Vijaya Sundararajan, Bruce R King, Sara Vogrin, Richard J MacIsaac, Leon A Bach, Jane Speight, Alicia J Jenkins, Christel Hendrieckx, David O’Neal, Sybil A McAuley, Geoff R Ambler, Fergus J Cameron, Jan M Fairchild, Elizabeth A Davis, Timothy W Jones, Morton G Burt, Philip M Clarke, Neale D Cohen, Peter G Colman, Joey Kaye, Kavita Kumareswaran, Melissa H Lee, Roland W Mccallum, Barbora Paldus, Stephen N Stranks, Steven Trawley, Glenn M Ward, David N O’Neal, Sienna Russell-Green, Deborah Jane Holmes-Walker, Benjamin Lam, Jennifer A Halliday, Glenn Ward, Catriona M Sims, D Jane Holmes-Walker, Andrzej Januszewski, Hanafi Mohammed Husin, Martin I de Bock, Mary B Abraham

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Leiomyoma in a Renal Allograft by Yan Jun Li, Amila Rohan Siriwardana, James Lawrence Penn Symons, Gordon Francis O’Neill, Min Ru Qiu, Timothy John Furlong

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