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2024, 'Letter to editor: Critical care beyond organ support: the importance of geriatric rehabilitation', Annals of Intensive Care, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13613-024-01363-6
,2024, 'Process evaluation of a tailored nudge intervention to promote appropriate care and treatment of older patients at the end-of-life', BMC Geriatrics, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-04818-4
,2024, 'The conveyor belt for older people nearing the end of life', Internal Medicine Journal, 54, pp. 1414 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.16458
,2024, 'Impact of a prospective feedback loop aimed at reducing non-beneficial treatments in older people admitted to hospital and potentially nearing the end of life. A cluster stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial', Age and Ageing, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae115
,2024, 'Most Hospital-Acquired Complications among Older Adults Are Associated with Frailty: The South-Western Sydney Frailty and Hospital-Acquired Complications Study', Journal of Frailty and Aging, http://dx.doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2024.60
,2022, 'Impact of a prospective feedback loop on care review activities in older patients at the end of life. A stepped-wedge randomised trial', BMC Geriatrics, 22, pp. 860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03554-x
,2022, 'Impact of a standardised rapid response system on clinical outcomes of female patients: an interrupted time series approach', BMJ Open Quality, 11, pp. e001614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001614
,2022, 'Understanding of advance care planning in primary care: A gap analysis', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 28, pp. 344 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY21253
,2022, 'Barotrauma and COVID-19', Intensive Care Medicine, 48, pp. 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-022-06630-3
,2021, 'How do patients with life-limiting illness and caregivers want end-of-life prognostic information delivered? A pilot study', Healthcare (Switzerland), 9, pp. 784, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9070784
,2021, 'Clinicians’ and public acceptability of universal risk-of-death screening for older people in routine clinical practice in Australia: cross-sectional surveys', Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 33, pp. 1063 - 1070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-020-01598-w
,2020, 'Frailty, delirium and hospital mortality of older adults admitted to intensive care: the Delirium (Deli) in ICU study', Critical Care, 24, pp. 609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03318-2
,2020, 'Impact of the Four-Hour Rule policy on emergency medical services delays in Australian EDs: A longitudinal cohort study', Emergency Medicine Journal, 37, pp. 793 - 800, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2019-208958
,2020, 'Afferent limb failure revisited – A retrospective, international, multicentre, cohort study of delayed rapid response team calls', Resuscitation, 156, pp. 6 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.08.117
,2020, 'Implementing value-based health care at scale: the NSW experience', Medical Journal of Australia, 213, pp. 285 - 285.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50745
,2020, 'A stepped-wedge randomised-controlled trial assessing the implementation, impact and costs of a prospective feedback loop to promote appropriate care and treatment for older patients in acute hospitals at the end of life: Study protocol', BMC Geriatrics, 20, pp. 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01660-2
,2020, 'Appropriateness of intensive care treatments near the end of life during the covid-19 pandemic', Breathe, 16, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0062-2020
,2020, 'The effectiveness of a standardised rapid response system on the reduction of cardiopulmonary arrests and other adverse events among emergency surgical admissions', Resuscitation, 150, pp. 162 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.01.021
,2020, 'When a health policy cuts both ways: Impact of the National Emergency Access Target policy on staff and emergency department performance', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 32, pp. 228 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13395
,2020, 'Are We Making Progress on Communication with People Who Are Near the End of Life in the Australian Health System? A Thematic Analysis', Health Communication, 35, pp. 158 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1548335
,2020, 'Feasibility of using a risk assessment tool to predict hospital transfers or death for older people in australian residential aged care. A retrospective cohort study', Healthcare (Switzerland), 8, pp. 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030284
,2020, 'It is feasible to flag ‘near end-of-life' status in older patients from routine general practice data', Australian Journal of General Practice, 49, pp. 752 - 758, http://dx.doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-08-19-5033
,2019, 'Succeeding with rapid response systems – a never-ending process: A systematic review of how health-care professionals perceive facilitators and barriers within the limbs of the RRS', Resuscitation, 144, pp. 75 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2019.08.034
,2019, 'A rapid review of patient and family perspectives on inappropriateness of intensive care treatments at the end of life', MedRXiv, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/19007138
,2019, 'Dissonance on perceptions of end-of-life needs between health-care providers and members of the public: Quantitative cross-sectional surveys', Australasian Journal on Ageing, 38, pp. e75 - e84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12630
,2019, 'Impact of the Four-Hour Rule/National Emergency Access Target policy implementation on emergency department staff: A qualitative perspective of emergency department management changes', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31, pp. 362 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13164
,2019, 'Qualitative analysis of perceptions and experiences of emergency department staff in relation to implementation and outcomes of the Four-Hour Rule/National Emergency Access Target in Australia', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31, pp. 378 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13166
,2019, 'Impact of the national emergency access target policy on emergency departments’ performance: A time-trend analysis for New South Wales, Australian capital territory and queensland', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31, pp. 253 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13142
,2019, 'The concept of frailty in intensive care', Australian Critical Care, 32, pp. 175 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2017.11.005
,2019, 'Impact of the four-hour National Emergency Access Target on 30 day mortality, access block and chronic emergency department overcrowding in Australian emergency departments', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31, pp. 58 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13151
,2019, 'End-of-life priorities of older adults with terminal illness and caregivers: a qualitative consultation', Health Expectations, 22, pp. 405 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.12860
,2019, 'Which frailty scale for patients admitted via Emergency Department? A cohort study', Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 80, pp. 104 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.11.002
,2019, 'Prospective validation of a checklist to predict short‐term death in older patients after emergency department admission in Australia and Ireland', Academic Emergency Medicine, 26, pp. 610 - 620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.13664
,2018, 'The Extended Dwell Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Is an Alternative Method of NICU Intravenous Access (vol 18, pg 295, 2018)', ADVANCES IN NEONATAL CARE, 18, pp. 506 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ANC.0000000000000575
,2018, 'Hospital variability of postoperative sepsis and sepsis-related mortality after elective coronary artery bypass grafting surgery', Journal of Critical Care, 47, pp. 232 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2018.07.018
,2018, 'Who Benefits from Aggressive Rapid Response System Treatments Near the End of Life? A Retrospective Cohort Study', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 44, pp. 505 - 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2018.04.001
,2018, 'Predicting outcome in the seriously ill—A new approach', Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 62, pp. 878 - 879, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aas.13121
,2018, 'Why RRS? Where RRS?', Critical Care Clinics, 34, pp. xi - xii, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2018.01.001
,2018, 'Impact of the Four-Hour Rule in Western Australian hospitals: Trend analysis of a large record linkage study 2002-2013', PLoS One, 13, pp. e0193902, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193902
,2018, 'The changing nature of the population of intensive-care patients', Journal of Hospital Administration, 7, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jha.v7n2p1
,2018, 'Delivering safe and effective test-result communication, management and follow-up: A mixed-methods study protocol', BMJ Open, 8, pp. e020235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020235
,2018, 'Intensive care medicine in 2050: expanding care beyond the intensive care unit', Intensive Care Medicine, 44, pp. 218 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4806-0
,2018, 'States worse than death', Current Opinion in Critical Care, 24, pp. 415 - 420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0000000000000529
,2018, 'Efficacy of a tool to predict short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: protocol for a multi-centre cohort study', Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 76, pp. 169 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.02.014
,2018, 'Predictive validity of the CriSTAL tool for short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: a prospective study', European geriatric medicine, 9, pp. 891 - 901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-018-0123-6
,2017, 'Expanding the Scope of the Rapid Response System', Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 43, pp. 651 - 652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2017.08.001
,2017, 'Recognising older frail patients near the end of life: What next?', European Journal of Internal Medicine, 45, pp. 84 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2017.09.026
,2017, 'STANDING Collaboration: A study protocol for developing clinical standards', BMJ Open, 7, pp. e014048, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014048
,2017, 'Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Rapid Response Systems and Medical Emergency Teams', Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 45, pp. 511 - 517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0310057X1704500416
,2017, 'Socio-demographic disparities in the utilisation of general practice services for Australian children - Results from a nationally representative longitudinal study', PLoS ONE, 12, pp. e0176563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176563
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