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2022, 'Uptake of prescription smoking cessation pharmacotherapies after hospitalization for major cardiovascular disease', European journal of preventive cardiology, 29, pp. 2173 - 2182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac172
,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, 'The Health Gym: synthetic health-related datasets for the development of reinforcement learning algorithms', Scientific Data, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01784-7
,2022, 'De-identifying Australian hospital discharge summaries: An end-to-end framework using ensemble of deep learning models', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104215
,2022, 'An Observational Study of Clinical and Health System Factors Associated With Catheter Ablation and Early Ablation Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation in Australia', Heart Lung and Circulation, 31, pp. 1269 - 1276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2022.04.049
,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, 'Hierarchical label-wise attention transformer model for explainable ICD coding', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104161
,2022, 'Interaction effects of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse health outcomes in elderly hospitalised patients', Scientific Reports, 12, pp. 14139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18346-x
,2022, 'Differences in the pre-hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales', Medical Journal of Australia, 217, pp. 143 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51652
,2022, 'Post-Discharge Antithrombotic Therapy Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Australian Patients', Heart Lung and Circulation, 31, pp. 1144 - 1152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2022.04.048
,2022, 'A new and automated risk prediction of coronary artery disease using clinical endpoints and medical imaging-derived patient-specific insights: protocol for the retrospective GeoCAD cohort study', BMJ open, 12, pp. e054881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054881
,2022, 'Erratum to “Sex differences in emergency medical services management of patients with myocardial infarction: Analysis of routinely collected data for over 110,000 patients” [Am Heart J (2021) 87-91](S0002870321001885)(10.1016/j.ahj.2021.07.009)', American Heart Journal, 248, pp. 175 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2021.11.007
,2022, 'Improving ambulance dispatch triage to trauma: A scoping review using the framework of development and evaluation of clinical prediction rules', Injury, 53, pp. 1746 - 1755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.020
,2022, 'Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018', Medical Journal of Australia, 216, pp. 420 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51440
,2022, 'Population-wide contribution of medically assisted reproductive technologies to overall births in Australia: Temporal trends and parental characteristics', Human Reproduction, 37, pp. 1047 - 1058, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac032
,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, 'Extract, transform, load framework for the conversion of health databases to OMOP', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266911
,2022, 'Changing Practice: Procedural Volume of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation by Age and Funding in New South Wales, 2002–2018', Heart Lung and Circulation, 31, pp. e17 - e19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2021.09.010
,2022, 'Evidence-practice gaps in P2Y
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, 'Maintain Your Brain: a 3‐year online randomized controlled trial to reduce cognitive decline in 55‐77 year olds', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.061548
,2021, 'Rates of Low-Value Service in Australian Public Hospitals and the Association with Patient Insurance Status', JAMA Network Open, 4, pp. e2138543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.38543
,2021, 'Examining area-level variation in service organisation and delivery across the breadth of primary healthcare. Usefulness of measures constructed from routine data', PLoS ONE, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260615
,2021, 'Patient and hospital factors associated with 30-day readmissions after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 16, pp. 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01556-1
,2021, 'Use of health and aged care services in Australia following hospital admission for myocardial infarction, stroke or heart failure', BMC Geriatrics, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02519-w
,2021, 'Sex differences in emergency medical services management of patients with myocardial infarction: analysis of routinely collected data for over 110,000 patients', American Heart Journal, 241, pp. 87 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2021.07.009
,2021, 'A Versatile Big Data Health System for Australia: Driving Improvements in Cardiovascular Health', Heart Lung and Circulation, 30, pp. 1467 - 1476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2021.04.023
,2021, 'Does a Prescription-based Comorbidity Index Correlate with the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Score and Mortality after Joint Arthroplasty? A Registry Study', Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 479, pp. 2181 - 2190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CORR.0000000000001895
,2021, 'How Much Is a Human Life Worth? A Systematic Review', Value in Health, 24, pp. 1531 - 1541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2021.04.003
,2021, 'Indigenous and tribal peoples data governance in health research: A systematic review', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910318
,2021, 'The Comparative Effectiveness of Varenicline and Nicotine Patches for Smoking Abstinence During Pregnancy: Evidence From a Population-based Cohort Study', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23, pp. 1664 - 1672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab063
,2021, '1467Interaction effects of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse health outcomes in elderly hospitalised patients', International Journal of Epidemiology, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.402
,2021, 'Burden of cardiovascular diseases in older adults using aged care services', Age and Ageing, 50, pp. 1845 - 1849, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab083
,2021, 'Psychotropic medicine prescribing and polypharmacy for people with dementia entering residential aged care: the influence of changing general practitioners', Medical Journal of Australia, 215, pp. 130 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51153
,2021, 'Incorporating real-world evidence into the development of patient blood glucose prediction algorithms for the ICU', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28, pp. 1642 - 1650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab060
,2021, 'Performance of six birth-weight and estimated-fetal-weight standards for predicting adverse perinatal outcome: a 10-year nationwide population-based study', Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 58, pp. 264 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/uog.22151
,2021, 'Impact of pre-surgery hospital transfer on time to surgery and 30-day mortality for people with hip fractures', Medical Journal of Australia, 215, pp. 87 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51083
,2021, 'The impact of dementia on aged care service transitions in the last five years of life', Age and Ageing, 50, pp. 1159 - 1165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa254
,2021, 'Identifying preventable risk factors for hospitalised asthma in young Aboriginal children: A whole-population cohort study', Thorax, 76, pp. 539 - 546, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216189
,2021, 'A bespoke data linkage of an IVF clinical quality registry to population health datasets; methods and performance', International Journal of Population Data Science, 6, pp. 1679, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v6i1.1679
,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, 'The Medicines Intelligence Centre of Research Excellence: Co-creating real-world evidence to support the evidentiary needs of Australian regulators and payers', International Journal of Population Data Science, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/IJPDS.V6I3.1726
,2021, 'An observational study of clinical and health system factors associated with catheter ablation and early ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation in Australia', , pp. 2021.09.03.21263104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263104
,2021, 'Maintain Your Brain trial: Early findings and lessons learned from adherence and compliance data', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.053596
,2021, 'Modelling vaccination capacity at mass vaccination hubs and general practice clinics', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.07.21255067
,2021, 'Predicting cardiovascular risk from national administrative databases using a combined survival analysis and deep learning approach', International Journal of Epidemiology
,2021, 'Rotational Atherectomy and major Adverse Cardiovascular Events: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Health Administrative Data', Heart, Lung and Circulation, 30, pp. S241 - S242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2021.06.327
,2021, 'Vaccinating Australia: How long will it take?', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.02.21250979
,2020, 'Antibiotic Dispensing Before and After Primary and Revision Total Hip Replacement: An Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry Linkage Study', International Journal of Population Data Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i5.1588
,2020, 'Comparison of Time-Varying and Landmark Analysis Methods in Estimating the Association Between Medication Adherence and Outcomes: A Heart Failure Cohort', International Journal of Population Data Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i5.1486
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