By Dr Timothy Churches

Journal articles

Churches T, 2003, 'Exploratory data analysis using set operations and ordinal mapping', Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 71, pp. 11 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00057-3

Jorm LR; Thackway SV; Churches TR; Hills MW, 2003, 'Watching the games: Public health surveillance for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 57, pp. 102 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.2.102

Churches T, 2003, 'A proposed architecture and method of operation for improving the protection of privacy and confidentiality in disease registers', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 3, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-3-1

Churches T; Christen P; Lim K; Zhu JX, 2002, 'Preparation of name and address data for record linkage using hidden Markov models.', BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2, pp. 9

Churches T; Christen P; Lim K; Zhu JX, 2002, 'Preparation of name and address data for record linkage using hiddenMarkov models', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-2-1

Breen D; Churches T; Hawker F; Torzillo PJ, 2002, 'Acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treated in the intensive care unit: A long-term follow up study', Thorax, 57, pp. 29 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thorax.57.1.29

Churches T; Lim K, 2001, 'Using record linkage to measure trends in breast cancer surgery.', N S W Public Health Bull, 12, pp. 105 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/nb01032

Churches T, 2000, 'Health surveillance at Olympic venues: The medical encounter reporting system.', N S W Public Health Bull, 11, pp. 145 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/nb00065

Churches T, 2000, 'The making of the Chief Health Officer's Report, 2000.', N S W Public Health Bull, 11, pp. 95 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/nb00044

Adelson P; Lim K; Churches T; Nguyen R, 1997, 'Surgical treatment of breast cancer in New South Wales 1991, 1992', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 67, pp. 9 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.1997.tb01886.x

Taylor R; Bell J; Coates M; Churches T; Wain G, 1996, 'Cervical cancer in New South Wales women: Five-year survival, 1972 to 1991', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 20, pp. 413 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.1996.tb01055.x

McCredie M; Coates M; Churches T; Taylor R, 1991, 'Cancer incidence in New South Wales, Australia', European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Oncology, 27, pp. 928 - 931, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-5379(91)90149-8

Conference Papers

O’Keefe CM; Gould P; Churches T, 2014, 'Comparison of two remote access systems recently developed and implemented in Australia', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 299 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_23

Christen P; Willmore A; Churches T, 2006, 'A probabilistic geocoding system utilising a parcel based address file', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 130 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11677437_11

Christen P; Churches T; Hegland M, 2004, 'Flebrl - A parallel open source data linkage system', in Dai H; Srikant R; Zhang C (eds.), ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, PROCEEDINGS, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, AUSTRALIA, Sydney, pp. 638 - 647, presented at 8th Pacific/Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AUSTRALIA, Sydney, 26 May 2004 - 28 May 2004, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000221955100073&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Churches T; Christen P, 2004, 'Blind data linkage using n-gram similarity comparisons', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 121 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24775-3_15

Christen P; Churches T; Hegland M, 2004, 'Febrl – A parallel open source data linkage system', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 638 - 647, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24775-3_75

Preprints

Kuo NI-H; Perez-Concha O; Hanly M; Mnatzaganian E; Hao B; Di Sipio M; Yu G; Vanjara J; Valerie IC; de Oliveira Costa J; Churches T; Lujic S; Hegarty J; Jorm L; Barbieri S, 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

Badge H; Churches T; Naylor J; Xuan W; Armstrong E; Gray L; Fletcher J; Gosbell I; Lin C-WC; Harris I, 2022, Compliance with Australian Orthopaedic Association guidelines does not reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism after total hip and knee joint arthroplasty: an observational study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1518119/v1

Cheng ETL; Lewin A; Churches T; Harris IA; Naylor J, 2020, Cost of investigations during the acute hospital stay following total hip or knee arthroplasty, by complication status, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-16096/v3

Cheng ETL; Lewin A; Churches T; Harris IA; Naylor J, 2020, Cost of investigations during the acute hospital stay following total hip or knee arthroplasty, by complication status, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-16096/v2

Bhutta ZA; Harari O; Park JJH; Zannat N-E; Zoratti M; Churches T; Thorlund K; Mills EJ, 2020, Evaluation of effects of public health interventions on COVID-19 transmission for Pakistan: A mathematical simulation study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.30.20086447

Cheng ETL; Lewin A; Churches T; Harris I; Naylor J, 2020, Association between post-operative complications and investigations costs during the acute hospital stay following total hip or knee arthroplasty, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-16096/v1

Xue D; Churches T; Armstrong E; Mittal R; Naylor JM; Harris IA, 2019, Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study., , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12241/v3

Xue D; Churches T; Armstrong E; Mittal R; Naylor JM; Harris IA, 2019, Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12241/v2

Xue D; Churches T; Armstrong E; Mittal R; Naylor JM; Harris IA, 2019, Interpreter proxy versus healthcare interpreter for administration of patient surveys following arthroplasty: a pilot study, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12241/v1

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