By Professor Patricia Davidson

Journal articles

Siabani S; Driscoll T; Davidson PM; Leeder SR, 2014, 'A randomized controlled trial to evaluate an educational strategy involving community health volunteers in improving self-care in patients with chronic heart failure: Rationale, design and methodology', Springerplus, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-689

O'Connell DL; Goldsbury DE; Davidson P; Girgis A; Phillips JL; Piza M; Wilkinson A; Ingham JM, 2014, 'Acute hospital-based services utilisation during the last year of life in New South Wales, Australia: Methods for a population-based study', BMJ Open, 4, pp. e004455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004455

Brandes K; Butow PN; Tattersall MHN; Clayton JM; Davidson PM; Young J; Epstein RM; Walczak A, 2014, 'Advanced cancer patients' and caregivers' use of a Question Prompt List', Patient Education and Counseling, 97, pp. 30 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2014.06.010

Ferguson C; Inglis SC; Newton PJ; Middleton S; Macdonald PS; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Atrial fibrillation: Stroke prevention in focus', Australian Critical Care, 27, pp. 92 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2013.08.002

Fernandez R; Davidson PM; Miranda C; Everett B; Salamonson Y, 2014, 'Attribution of risk for coronary heart disease in a vulnerable immigrant population: A survey study', Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 29, pp. 48 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JCN.0b013e318276c027

Green A; DiGiacomo M; Luckett T; Abbott P; Davidson PM; Delaney J; Delaney P, 2014, 'Cross-sector collaborations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood disability: A systematic integrative review and theory-based synthesis', International Journal for Equity in Health, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-014-0126-y

Walczak A; Butow PN; Clayton JM; Tattersall MHN; Davidson PM; Young J; Epstein RM, 2014, 'Discussing prognosis and end-of-life care in the final year of life: A randomized controlled trial of a nurse-led ommunication support programme for patients and caregivers', BMJ Open, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005745

Al Abed NA; Davidson PM; Hickman LD, 2014, 'Healthcare needs of older Arab migrants: A systematic review', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23, pp. 1770 - 1784, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12476

Gholizadeh L; Davidson PM; Heydari M; Salamonson Y, 2014, 'Heart Disease and Depression: Is Culture a Factor?', Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 25, pp. 290 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659614523453

Salamonson Y; Everett B; Cooper M; Lombardo L; Weaver R; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Nursing as first choice predicts nursing program completion', Nurse Education Today, 34, pp. 127 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.10.009

MacIntyre CR; Chughtai AA; Seale H; Richards GA; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Response to Martin-Moreno et al. (2014) Surgical mask or no mask for health workers not a defensible position for Ebola', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 51, pp. 1694 - 1695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.004

Prichard RA; Juul M; Gazibarich G; Davidson PM; Mason C; Keogh AM; Macdonald PS; Hayward CS, 2014, 'Six-minute walk distance predicts VO2 (max) in patients supported with continuous flow left ventricular assist devices', International Journal of Artificial Organs, 37, pp. 539 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.5301/ijao.5000345

Close GR; Newton PJ; Fung SC; Denniss AR; Halcomb EJ; Kovoor P; Stewart S; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Socioeconomic Status and Heart Failure in Sydney', Heart Lung and Circulation, 23, pp. 320 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2013.10.056

Daly J; Jackson D; Mannix J; Davidson PM; Hutchinson M, 2014, 'The importance of clinical leadership in the hospital setting', Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 6, pp. 75 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JHL.S46161

Johnson MJ; Bland JM; Davidson PM; Newton PJ; Oxberry SG; Abernethy AP; Currow DC, 2014, 'The relationship between two performance scales: New York Heart Association Classification and Karnofsky Performance Status Scale', Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 47, pp. 652 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.05.006

Prichard RA; Kershaw L; Goodall S; Davidson PM; Macdonald P; Newton P; Hayward C, 2014, 'Abstract 253: Bottom up Costing Ventricular Assist Device Therapy And Optimal Medical Management-first Steps To Establishing Cost Effectiveness.', Circulation Population Health and Outcomes, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/circoutcomes.7.suppl_1.253

Luckett T; Davidson PM; Boyle F; Liauw W; Agar M; Green A; Lovell M; ImPaCCT (Improving Palliative Care through Clinical Trials) and PoCoG (Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group) Symptom Cluster Collaborative , 2014, 'Australian survey of current practice and guideline use in adult cancer pain assessment and management: perspectives of oncologists.', Asia Pac J Clin Oncol, 10, pp. e99 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajco.12040

Alexandrou E; Spencer TR; Frost SA; Mifflin N; Davidson PM; Hillman KM, 2014, 'Central Venous Catheter Placement by Advanced Practice Nurses Demonstrates Low Procedural Complication and Infection Rates—A Report From 13 Years of Service*', Critical Care Medicine, 42, pp. 536 - 543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0b013e3182a667f0

Davidson PM, 2014, 'Childhood appendicitis: a surgical challenge', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 84, pp. 301 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ans.12563

Anuruang S; Hickman LD; Jackson D; Dharmendra T; Van Balen J; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Community‐based interventions to promote management for older people: an integrative review', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23, pp. 2110 - 2120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12445

Al Abed NA; Hickman L; Jackson D; Digiacomo M; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Editorial', Contemporary Nurse, 46, pp. 259 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/conu.2014.46.2.259

Jackson D; Girvin J; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Editorial', Contemporary Nurse, 48, pp. 130 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2014.11081934

Jackson D; Girvin J; Davidson PM, 2014, 'Editorial: Nursing innovation and reform in health care.', Contemporary Nurse, 48, pp. 130 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/conu.2014.48.2.130

Hosie A; Lobb E; Agar M; Davidson PM; Phillips J, 2014, 'Identifying the Barriers and Enablers to Palliative Care Nurses' Recognition and Assessment of Delirium Symptoms: A Qualitative Study', Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.01.008

Smith T; Agar M; Davidson P; Jenkins C; Ingham J, 2014, 'Noninvasive Ventilation: Better Than You Think; Insights From Behind the Mask', Chest, 146, pp. 26a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.1990862

Ferguson C; Inglis SC; Newton PJ; Middleton S; Macdonald PS; Davidson PM, 2014, 'PM230 Thromboprophylaxis prescription in hospitalised patients with heart failure and concomitant atrial fibrillation: Preliminary findings from the Atrial Fibrillation And Stroke Thromboprophylaxis in hEart failuRe (AFASTER) cohort study', Global Heart, 9, pp. e109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.1607

Crittenden JN; Leslie G; Davidson PM; Hood SD; Thompson PL, 2014, 'PM491 Identifying those at risk of depression: Development of the Depression Risk Assessment Questionnaire', Global Heart, 9, pp. e163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.1808

Inglis SC; Du H; Newton PJ; DiGiacomo M; Omari A; Davidson PM, 2014, 'PT453 Disease Management Interventions For Improving Self-Management In Lower-Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Cochrane Review', Global Heart, 9, pp. e262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.2158

Ferguson C; Inglis SC; Newton PJ; Middleton S; Macdonald PS; Davidson PM, 2014, 'PW003 Frailty and thromboprophylaxis prescription in heart failure and atrial fibrillation: Preliminary findings from the Atrial Fibrillation And Stroke Thromboprophylaxis in hEart failuRe (AFASTER) cohort study', Global Heart, 9, pp. e264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.2168

Ferguson C; Inglis SC; Newton PJ; Davidson PM; Cripps PJS; Macdonald PS, 2014, 'Social media: A tool to spread information: A case study analysis of Twitter conversation at the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand 61st Annual Scientific Meeting 2013', Collegian, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2014.03.002

Smith T; Dunford M; Agar M; Davidson P; Jenkins C; Ingham J, 2014, 'Symptom Burden and Distress in Individuals Undergoing Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure', Chest, 146, pp. 39a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.1994789

DiGiacomo M; Davidson PM; Byles J; Nolan MT, 2013, 'An Integrative and Socio-Cultural Perspective of Health, Wealth, and Adjustment in Widowhood', Health Care for Women International, 34, pp. 1067 - 1083, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2012.712171

Marie N; Luckett T; Davidson PM; Lovell M; Lal S, 2013, 'Optimal patient education for cancer pain: A systematic review and theory-based meta-analysis', Supportive Care in Cancer, 21, pp. 3529 - 3537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-013-1995-0

Digiacomo M; Lewis J; Nolan MT; Phillips J; Davidson PM, 2013, 'Transitioning from caregiving to widowhood', Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 46, pp. 817 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.01.005

Lovell M; Agar M; Luckett T; Davidson PM; Green A; Clayton J, 2013, 'Australian survey of current practice and guideline use in adult cancer pain assessment and management: Perspectives of palliative care physicians', Journal of Palliative Medicine, 16, pp. 1403 - 1409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2013.0245

Davidson PM; Himmelfarb CD, 2013, 'Population Health Studies - What Do They Tell Us?', Heart Lung and Circulation, 22, pp. 885 - 886, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2013.08.014

Davidson PM; Inglis SC; Newton PJ, 2013, 'Self-care in patients with chronic heart failure', Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 13, pp. 351 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/erp.13.25

Davidson PM; Daly J; Hill MN, 2013, 'Editorial: Looking to the future with courage, commitment, competence and compassion', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, pp. 2665 - 2667, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12302

Davidson PM; Abernethy AP; Newton PJ; Clark K; Currow DC, 2013, 'The caregiving perspective in heart failure: A population based study', BMC Health Services Research, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-342

Digiacomo M; Delaney P; Abbott P; Davidson PM; Delaney J; Vincent F, 2013, ''Doing the hard yards': Carer and provider focus group perspectives of accessing Aboriginal childhood disability services', BMC Health Services Research, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-326

Walczak A; Mazer B; Butow PN; Tattersall MHN; Clayton JM; Davidson PM; Young J; Ladwig S; Epstein RM, 2013, 'A question prompt list for patients with advanced cancer in the final year of life: Development and cross-cultural evaluation', Palliative Medicine, 27, pp. 779 - 788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216313483659

MacDonald PS; Newton PJ; Davidson PM, 2013, 'The SNAPSHOT ACS study: Getting the big picture on acute coronary syndrome: How snapshot methodology identifies factors limiting translation of evidence to practice', Medical Journal of Australia, 199, pp. 147 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja13.10842

Phillips JL; West PA; Davidson PM; Agar M, 2013, 'Does case conferencing for people with advanced dementia living in nursing homes improve care outcomes: Evidence from an integrative review?', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50, pp. 1122 - 1135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.11.001

Inglis SC; Hermis A; Shehab S; Newton PJ; Lal S; Davidson PM, 2013, 'Peripheral arterial disease and chronic heart failure: A dangerous mix', Heart Failure Reviews, 18, pp. 457 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10741-012-9331-1

Driscoll A; Tonkin A; Stewart A; Worrall-Carter L; Thompson DR; Riegel B; Hare DL; Davidson PM; Mulvany C; Stewart S, 2013, 'Complexity of management and health outcomes in a prospective cohort study of 573 heart failure patients in Australia: Does more equal less?', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, pp. 1629 - 1638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12073

Hosie A; Davidson PM; Agar M; Sanderson CR; Phillips J, 2013, 'Delirium prevalence, incidence, and implications for screening in specialist palliative care inpatient settings: A systematic review', Palliative Medicine, 27, pp. 486 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216312457214

Driscoll A; Currey J; George M; Davidson PM, 2013, 'Changes in health service delivery for cardiac patients: Implications for workforce planning and patient outcomes', Australian Critical Care, 26, pp. 55 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aucc.2012.08.001

Digiacomo M; Lewis J; Nolan MT; Phillips J; Davidson PM, 2013, 'Health transitions in recently widowed older women: A mixed methods study', BMC Health Services Research, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-143

Chang S; Davidson PM; Newton PJ; Krum H; Salamonson Y; MacDonald P, 2013, 'What is the methodological and reporting quality of health related quality of life in chronic heart failure clinical trials?', International Journal of Cardiology, 164, pp. 133 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.01.019

Davidson PM, 2013, 'Tailoring and targeting interventions for women with heart disease: The need for gender-based approaches', Evidence Based Nursing, 16, pp. 45 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebn.2011-100102

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