By Emeritus Professor Mark Fort Harris

Journal articles

Chan BC; Jayasinghe UW; Christl B; Laws R; Orr N; Williams AM; Partington K; Harris MF, 2013, 'The impact of a team-based intervention on the lifestyle risk factor management practices of community nurses: Outcomes of the Community Nursing SNAP Trial', BMC Health Services Research, 13, pp. 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-54

Black D; Taggart J; Jayasinghe UW; Proudfoot J; Crookes P; Beilby J; Powell Davies PG; Wilson LA; Harris MF; Powell Davies G, 2013, 'The Teamwork Study: enhancing the role of non-GP staff in chronic disease management in general practice', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 19, pp. 184 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY11071

Goldsbury D; Harris MF; Pascoe S; Barton MB; Olver I; Spigelman AD; Beilby J; Veitch C; Weller D; O Connell DL, 2013, 'The varying role of the GP in the pathway between colonoscopy and surgery for colorectal cancer: a retrospective cohort study', BMJ Open, 3, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002325

Harris MF; Pascoe S; Crossland L; Beilby J; Veitch C; Spigelman A; Weller D, 2012, 'Patients with colorectal cancer A qualitative study of referral pathways and continuing care', Australian Family Physician, 41, pp. 899 - 902

Bryan A; Harris M; Sharma R, 2012, 'General practice: does size really count?', MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, 197, pp. C7 - C8, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000310102600025&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Taggart J; Williams AM; Dennis SM; Newall AT; Shortus TD; Zwar NA; Denney-Wilson E; Harris MF, 2012, 'A systematic review of interventions in primary care to improve health literacy for chronic disease behavioral risk factors', BMC Family Practice, 13, pp. 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-13-49

Comino EJ; Powell davies G; Krastev Y; Haas M; Christl B; Furler JS; Raymont A; Harris MF, 2012, 'A systematic review of interventions to enhance access to best practice primary health care for chronic disease management, prevention and episodic care', BMC Health Services Research, pp. 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-415

Harris MF, 2012, 'Access to preventive care by immigrant populations', BMC Medicine, 10, pp. 55 - 55

Piribauer F; Thaler K; Harris MF, 2012, 'Covert checks by standardised patients of general practitioners' delivery of new periodic health examinations: Clustered cross-sectional study from a consumer organisation', BMJ Open, 2, pp. Art. No. e000744, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000744

Comino EJ; Harris MF; Shaw J; Jayasinghe UW, 2012, 'Detection of type 2 diabetes: what role for associated risk and protective factors and socioeconomic status?', Australian Health Review, 36, pp. 349 - 355, http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=AH11047.pdf

Schutze H; Rix E; Laws R; Passey M; Fanaian M; Harris MF, 2012, 'How feasible are lifestyle modification programs for disease prevention in general practice?', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 18, pp. 129 - 137

Harris MF; Harris E, 2012, 'Partnerships between primary healthcare and population health: Preventing chronic disease in Australia', London Journal of Primary Care, 4, pp. 133 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2012.11493351

Passey M; Laws R; Jayasinghe UW; Fanaian M; Mckenzie SH; Powell Davies PG; Lyle D; Harris MF; Powell Davies G, 2012, 'Predictors of primary care referrals to a vascular disease prevention lifestyle program among participants in a cluster randomised trial', BMC Health Services Research, 12, pp. 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-234

Wan Q; Makeham M; Zwar NA; Petche S; Harris M, 2012, 'Qualitative evaluation of a diabetes electronic decision support tool: views of users.', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12, pp. 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-61

Comino EJ; Knight J; Webster VK; Jackson Pulver L; Jalaludin BB; Harris E; Craig PL; Mcdermott DR; Henry RL; Harris MF, 2012, 'Risk and protective factors for pregnancy outcomes for urban Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mothers and infants: The Gudaga cohort', Maternal and Child Health Journal, 16, pp. 569 - 578, http://www.springerlink.com/content/p4t10r1223157707/fulltext.html

Goldsbury D; Harris MF; Pascoe S; Olver I; Barton M; Spigelman AD; O''connell D, 2012, 'Socio-demographic and other patient characteristics associated with time between colonoscopy and surgery, and choice of treatment centre for colorectal cancer: a retrospective cohort study', BMJ Open, 2, pp. e001070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001070

Harris MF; Fanaian M; Jayasinghe UW; Passey M; Lyle D; Mckenzie SH; Powell davies G, 2012, 'What predicts patient reported GP management of SNAPW behaviours?', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 18, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY11024

Glasziou PP; Buchan H; Del Mar CB; Doust J; Harris MF; Knight RA; Scott AN; Scott I; Stockwell A, 2012, 'When financial incentives do more good than harm: a checklist', British Medical Journal (BMJ), 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e5047

Kirby SE; Dennis SM; Jayasinghe UW; Harris MF, 2011, 'Frequent emergency attenders: Is there a better way?', Australian Health Review, 35, pp. 462 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH10964

Denney-Wilson E; Robinson A; Laws R; Harris MF, 2011, 'Child obesity prevention in primary care: The Healthy 4 Life pilot study', Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 5, pp. 18 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2011.08.089

Furler J; Harris MF; Rogers A, 2011, 'Equity and long-term condition self-management', Chronic Illness, 7, pp. 3 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395310386978

Harris MF; Furler JS; Mercer SW; Willems SJ, 2011, 'Equity of Access to Quality of Care in Family Medicine - Editorial', International Journal of Family Medicine, 2011 ID 858131, pp. 1 - 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/858131

Christl B; Lloyd JE; Krastev Y; Litt J; Harris MF, 2011, 'In press: Effective strategies for implementing guidelines in general practice', Australian Family Physician, 40 (10)

Denney-Wilson E; Vagholkar S; Wan Q; McKenzie S; Harris MF, 2011, 'Patient characteristics and outcomes of weight management advice in primary care', Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, 5, pp. 19 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2011.08.090

Taggart J; Chan BC; Jayasinghe UW; Christl B; Proudfoot J; Crookes P; Beilby J; Black DA; Harris MF, 2011, 'Patients assessment of chronic illness care (PACIC) in two Australian studies: Structure and utility', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17, pp. 215 - 221, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01423.x/pdf

Chan BC; Proudfoot J; Zwar NA; Powell Davies PG; Harris MF, 2011, 'Satisfaction with referral relationships between general practice and allied health professionals in Australian primary health care', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 17, pp. 250 - 258, http://www.publish.csiro.au/view/journals/dsp_journal_fulltext.cfm?nid=261&f=PY10026

Mckenzie SH; Jayasinghe UW; Fanaian M; Passey M; Lyle D; Powell Davies PG; Harris MF, 2011, 'Socio-demographic factors, behaviour and personality: associations with psychological distress', European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 19, pp. 250 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741826711399426

Vaidya R; Pandya KV; Denney-Wilson E; Harris MF, 2011, 'Sustaining cardiovascular absolute risk management in Australian general practice', Australian Journal of Primary Health, online 7 Dec 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY11091

Piribauer F; Thaler K; Harris M, 2010, 'Secondary use of mystery visitor data from a consumer organization to assess general practitioners performance', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 20, pp. 37 - 38, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000283675900094&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Harris MF; Bailey L; Snowdon T; Litt J; Smith JW; Joyner B; Furler J, 2010, 'Developing the guidelines for preventive care Two decades of experience', AUSTRALIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 39, pp. 63 - 65, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000274289900016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Harris MF; Bailey L; Snowdon T; Litt J; Smith JW; Joyner B; Furler J, 2010, 'Developing the guidelines for preventive care: Two decades of experience', Australian Family Physician, 39, pp. 63 - 65

Booth BJ; Zwar NA; Harris MF, 2010, 'A complexity perspective on health care improvement and reform in general practice and primary health care', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 16, pp. 29 - 35, http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=PY10003.pdf

Holton CH; Proudfoot J; Jayasinghe UW; Grimm J; Bubner T; Winstanley J; Harris MF; Beilby J, 2010, 'A tool to measure whether business management capacity in general practice impacts on the quality of chronic disease care.', Health Services Management Research: an official journal of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 23, pp. 147 - 153

Laws RA; Chan BC; Williams AM; Powell Davies PG; Jayasinghe UW; Fanaian M; Harris MF, 2010, 'An efficacy trial of brief lifestyle intervention delivered by generalist community nurses (CN SNAP trial)', BMC Nursing, 9, pp. 4 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6955-9-4

Passey M; Fanaian M; Lyle D; Harris MF, 2010, 'Assessment and management of lifestyle risk factors in rural and urban general practices in Australia', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 16, pp. 81 - 86

Wan Q; Zwar NA; Vagholkar S; Campbell TJ; Harris MF, 2010, 'Cardiovascular absolute risk assessment and management: Engagement and outcomes in general practice patients', Australian Family Physician, 39, pp. 954 - 958

Harris MF; Bailey L; Snowdon T; Litt J; Smith J; Joyner B; Furler JS, 2010, 'Developing the guidelines for preventive care in Australian General Practice: two decades of experience', Australian Family Physician, 39, pp. 63 - 65, http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/201001/201001harris.pdf

Harris MF; Chan BC; Daniel C; Wan Q; Zwar NA; Powell Davies PG, 2010, 'Development and early experience from an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practices and allied health providers: the Team-link study', BMC Health Services Research, 10, pp. 1 - 8, http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-10-104.pdf

Wan Q; Harris MF; Zwar NA; Vagholkar S; Kemp LA; Campbell TJ, 2010, 'Experience in implementation of cardiovascular absolute risk assessment and management in Australian general practice.', International Journal of Clinical Practice, 64, pp. 1166 - 1167, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123529467/HTMLSTART

Chan BC; Perkins D; Wan Q; Zwar NA; Daniel C; Crookes P; Powell Davies PG; Harris MF, 2010, 'Finding Common Ground? Evaluating an intervention to improve teamwork among primary health care professionals.', International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 22, pp. 519 - 524, http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/6/519

Achat HA; Thomas P; Close GR; Moerkerken LR; Harris MF, 2010, 'General health care service utilisation: where, when and by whom in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 16, pp. 132 - 140

Fanaian M; Laws RA; Passey M; Mckenzie SH; Wan Q; Powell Davies PG; Lyle D; Harris MF, 2010, 'Health improvement and prevention study (HIPS) - evaluation of an intervention to prevent vascular disease in general practice', BMC Family Practice, 11, http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2296-11-57.pdf

Harris E; Harris MF; Shortus TD, 2010, 'How do we manage patients who become unemployed?', Medical Journal of Australia, 192, pp. 98 - 101, http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/cgi-bin/local/access/ej-access.cgi?url=http://www.mja.com.au/

Williams AM; Dennis SM; Harris MF, 2010, 'How effective are the linkages between self-management programmes and primary care providers, especially for disadvantaged patients?', Chronic Illness, 7, pp. 20 - 30, http://chi.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/10/01/1742395310383339.abstract

Mazza D; Harris MF, 2010, 'Improving implementation of evidence-based prevention in primary care', Medical Journal of Australia, 193(2), pp. 101 - 102, http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/193_02_190710/maz10489_fm.html

Denney-Wilson E; Fanaian M; Wan Q; Vagholkar S; Schutze H; Harris MF, 2010, 'Lifestyle risk factors in general practice: Routine assessment and management', Australian Family Physician, 39, pp. 950 - 953

Harris MF; Jayasinghe UW; Taggart J; Christl B; Proudfoot JG; Crookes P; Beilby J; Powell Davies PG, 2010, 'Multidisciplinary Team Care Arrangements in the management of patients with chronic disease in Australian general practice', Medical Journal of Australia, 194, pp. 236 - 239

Kirby SE; Dennis SM; Jayasinghe UW; Harris MF, 2010, 'Patient related factors in frequent readmissions: the influence of condition, access to services and patient choice', BMC Health Services Research, 10, pp. 216 - 224, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/10/216

Wan Q; Harris MF; Zwar NA; Vagholkar S; Campbell TJ, 2010, 'Prerequisites for implementing a cardiovascular absolute risk assessment in general practice: a qualitative study of Australian general practitioners' and patients' views', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, pp. 580 - 584, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123396718/PDFSTART

Christl B; Harris MF; Jayasinghe UW; Proudfoot JG; Taggart J; Tan JJ, 2010, 'Readiness for change among general practice staff', Quality and Safety in Health Care, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/qshc.2009.033373

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