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Journal articles
2024, 'Early life child protection contacts and developmental risk at age five: a whole-of-population cohort study of 479,413 children in two Australian states.', International Journal of Population Data Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2639
,2024, 'Prenatal and early life maternal substance use prevalence among Australian children born 2007-2018: a data linkage study using health, death, and child protection data', International Journal of Population Data Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2680
,2024, 'The scale and timing of child protection system contacts from 0-18 years: a study of 1.9 million Australian children', International Journal of Population Data Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2678
,2024, 'Developmental trajectories of socio-emotional outcomes of children and young people in out-of-home care – Insights from data of Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)', Child Abuse and Neglect, 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106196
,2024, 'The effect of the ‘Swim Reaper’ program on water safety awareness, drowning mortality and morbidity among males aged 15–34 years in Aotearoa, New Zealand', Journal of Safety Research, 88, pp. 190 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2023.11.006
,2024, 'Enriching Data Science and Health Care Education: Application and Impact of Synthetic Data Sets Through the Health Gym Project', JMIR Medical Education, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/51388
,2024, 'Readmission to a non-index hospital following total joint replacement prevalence and association with mortality in 394,248 Australian patients', Bone and Joint Open, 5, pp. 60 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.51.BJO-2023-0118.R1
,2023, 'Software Application Profile: The daggle app-A tool to support learning and teaching the graphical rules of selecting adjustment variables using directed acyclic graphs', International Journal of Epidemiology, 52, pp. 1659 - 1664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad038
,2022, 'Modelling vaccination capacity at mass vaccination hubs and general practice clinics: a simulation study', BMC Health Services Research, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08447-8
,2022, 'Estimating incidence rates of periprosthetic joint infection after hip and knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis using linked registry and administrative health data', Bone and Joint Journal, 104 B, pp. 1060 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.104B9.BJJ-2022-0116.R1
,2022, 'Children's Relative Age and Medicine Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Across Australian Jurisdictions with Different School Enrolment Policies', Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 32, pp. 349 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cap.2022.0032
,2022, 'Vaccinating Australia: How long will it take?', Vaccine, 40, pp. 2491 - 2497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.006
,2022, 'The impact of re-opening the international border on COVID-19 hospitalisations in Australia: a modelling study', Medical Journal of Australia, 216, pp. 39 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51291
,2022, 'Uptake of Team Care Arrangements for adults newly diagnosed with cancer', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 29, pp. 20 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py22078
,2021, 'Pregnancy and birth characteristics of Aboriginal twins in two Australian states: a data linkage study', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03945-9
,2021, 'Preschool attendance and developmental outcomes at age five in Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: A population-based cohort study of 100 357 Australian children', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 75, pp. 371 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214672
,2021, 'Medications used disproportionately during pregnancy: Priorities for research on the risks and benefits of medications when used during pregnancy', Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 30, pp. 53 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pds.5131
,2021, 'Modelling vaccination capacity at mass vaccination hubs and general practice clinics', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.07.21255067
,2021, 'Vaccinating Australia: How long will it take?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.02.21250979
,2020, 'Cumulative Incidence of Child Protection Services Involvement before Age 5 Years in 153670 Australian Children', JAMA Pediatrics, 174, pp. 995 - 997, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1151
,2020, 'Role of maternal age at birth in child development among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children in their first school year: a population-based cohort study', The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 4, pp. 46 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30334-7
,2019, 'Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales: A population data linkage study', International Journal for Equity in Health, 18, pp. 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1019-x
,2019, 'School starting age and child development in a state-wide, population-level cohort of children in their first year of school in New South Wales, Australia', Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 48, pp. 325 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2019.01.008
,2019, 'Demographic and clinical characteristics of hospitalised unintentional poisoning in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal preschool children in New South Wales, Australia: A population data linkage study', BMJ Open, 9, pp. e022633, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022633
,2018, 'Maternal age and offspring developmental vulnerability at age five: A population-based cohort study of Australian children', PLoS Medicine, 15, pp. e1002558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002558
,2018, 'Gestational Age and Child Development at Age Five in a Population-Based Cohort of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Children', Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 32, pp. 114 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12426
,2017, 'Association between respiratory syncytial viral disease and the subsequent risk of the first episode of severe asthma in different subgroups of high-risk Australian children: A whole-of-population-based cohort study', BMJ Open, 7, pp. e017936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017936
,2017, 'Data Resource Profile: Seeding Success: A crosssectoral data resource for early childhood health and development research in Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children', International Journal of Epidemiology, 46, pp. 1365 - 1366j, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx051
,2016, 'Sequence analysis of call record data: Exploring the role of different cost settings', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 179, pp. 793 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12143
,2014, 'Variation in Incentive Effects across Neighbourhoods: An Example from The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing', Survey Research Methods, 8, pp. 19 - 30, https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/5485/5336
,2013, 'The effect of multiple chronic conditions on self-rated health, disability and quality of life among the older populations of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: A comparison of two nationally representative cross-sectional surveys', BMJ Open, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002571
,Conference Papers
2017, 'RSV increases the risk of first paediatric asthma hospitalisation: whole-of-population cohort study', in EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD, ITALY, Milan, presented at European-Respiratory-Society (ERS) International Congress, ITALY, Milan, 09 September 2017 - 13 September 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/1393003.congress-2017.OA498
,2016, 'Maternal age at childbirth and development outcomes at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children: a population data linkage study', Canberra, Australia, presented at Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Canberra, Australia, 14 September 2016 - 16 September 2016
,2016, 'Maternal age and child development outcomes at age five in Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children: a population data linkage study', in International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, pp. 109, presented at International Population Data Linkage Network Conference, Swansea, Wales, 24 August 2016 - 26 August 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.109
,2016, 'Social and geographical inequalities in school starting age in Australia: a population data linkage study', in International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, pp. 120, presented at International Population Data Linkage Network Conference, Swansea, Wales, 24 August 2016 - 26 August 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.120
,Conference Presentations
2017, 'Maternal age at childbirth and development outcomes at age five: a population data linkage study', presented at Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) 24th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 28 September 2017 - 30 August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26682
,2016, 'The Seeding Success study: identifying factors that contribute to positive early childhood health and development in Aboriginal children', presented at 14th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference: Research to Results: Using evidence to improve outcomes for families, Melbourne, Australia, 06 July 2016 - 08 July 2016
,Conference Abstracts
2021, 'Outcomes of Indigenous multifetal and singleton pregnancies: complications, medical care, birth experience and infant health', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, Vol. 50, pp. 81 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.223
,2021, 'Children's relative age and medicine treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across Australian jurisdictions with different school enrolment policies', in PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, WILEY, Vol. 30, pp. 166 - 167, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000687807300335&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Predictors and Sources of Variation in 30-day Unplanned Readmission Following Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery in Australia', in Heart Lung and Circulation, Elsevier, Vol. 30, pp. s258, presented at 69th CSANZ Annual Scientific Meeting 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research ANZET 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2021.06.362
,2020, 'Outcomes of Indigenous Twin and Singleton Pregnancies: Complications, Medical Care, Birth Experience and Infant Health', in International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University, Vol. 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i5.1592
,2018, 'Developmental vulnerability at age five among children who enter and progress through the child protection system in New South Wales, Australia: a cross-sectoral data linkage study', in International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University, Vol. 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v3i4.593
,2017, 'Preschool attendance and early childhood development outcomes in the first year of school for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales, Australia', in International Journal of Population Data Science, Swansea University, Vol. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v1i1.123
,Reports
2019, Child protection services involvement and developmental outcomes at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children: Findings from a population-based data linkage study (The Seeding Success Study). Report produced in-confidence for the Independent Review in Aboriginal Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care (Family is Culture).
,2017, Early life health, development and pathways into child protection for children placed in residential care: Findings from a population-based data linkage study (The Seeding Success Study)
,2017, Early life pathways into child protection and child development outcomes at age five: Findings from a population-based data linkage study (The Seeding Success Study)
,2017, Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for injury in children who participated in the Brighter Futures program: a population-based data linkage study
,Preprints
2023, Enriching Data Science and Health Care Education: Application and Impact of Synthetic Data Sets Through the Health Gym Project (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.51388
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