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Journal articles
2002, 'Understanding arid environments using fossil rodent middens', Journal of Arid Environments, 50, pp. 499 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jare.2001.0901
,2001, 'Identifying medical school learning needs: A survey of Australian interns', Education for Health, 14, pp. 395 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576280110081755
,2001, 'The record of fauna, and accumulating agents of hair and bone, found in middens of stick-nest rats (Genus Leporillus) (Rodentia: Muridae)', Wildlife Research, 28, pp. 435 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR00037
,2001, 'The relationship between previous tertiary education and course performance in first year medical students at Newcastle University, Australia', Education for Health, 14, pp. 417 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576280110081764
,2001, 'How do Australian doctors with different pre-medical school backgrounds perform as interns?', Education for Health, 14, pp. 87 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576280010015083
,2000, 'Factors affecting progress of Australian and international students in a problem-based learning medical course', Medical Education, 34, pp. 708 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.2000.00625.x
,2000, 'Intern Prescribing for Common Clinical Conditions', Advances in Health Sciences Education, 5, pp. 141 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009882315981
,2000, 'Investigating pathology utilisation by junior medical staff in a teaching hospital: A qualitative study', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 30, pp. 261 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.2000.tb00817.x
,1999, 'Timeliness and quality of care for elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction under health maintenance organization vs fee-for-service insurance.', Arch Intern Med, 159, pp. 2013 - 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.159.17.2013
,1999, 'Impact of written information on knowledge and preferences for cardiopulmonary resuscitation', Medical Journal of Australia, 171, pp. 239 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123629.x
,1999, 'Attitudes towards community medicine: A comparison of students from traditional and community-oriented medical schools', Medical Education, 33, pp. 606 - 611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00468.x
,1998, 'Consultation between cardiologists and generalists in the management of acute myocardial infarction: implications for quality of care.', Arch Intern Med, 158, pp. 1778 - 1783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.16.1778
,1998, 'A system for maintaining the educational and training standards of junior doctors', Medical Education, 32, pp. 426 - 431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00211.x
,1998, 'Decision making in CPR: Attitudes of hospital patients and healthcare professionals', Medical Journal of Australia, 169, pp. 128 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb116012.x
,1998, 'Measuring the hospital experiences of junior doctors', Medical Education, 32, pp. 312 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00206.x
,1998, 'The relationship between assessment measures at Newcastle Medical School (Australia) and performance ratings during internship', Medical Education, 32, pp. 40 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00161.x
,1998, 'Do junior doctors feel they are prepared for hospital practice? A study of graduates from traditional and non-traditional medical schools', Medical Education, 32, pp. 19 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00152.x
,1998, 'Monitoring the performance of junior doctors in the first two years of postgraduate training', Education for Health, 11, pp. 183 - 192
,1998, 'Determining the function of a hospital clinical ethics committee: making ethics work.', J Qual Clin Pract, 18, pp. 117 - 124, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9631349
,1996, 'Screening recommendations in general practice: A survey of graduates from different medical schools', Medical Journal of Australia, 165, pp. 14 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb124810.x
,1996, 'Learning to manage motivational gravity: An application of group polarization', Journal of Social Psychology, 136, pp. 251 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1996.9713999
,1996, 'A scale to measure attitudes toward community medicine', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 20, pp. 433 - 435, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.1996.tb01060.x
,1996, 'Attitudes of Doctors Toward Community Medicine: Differences between Graduates from Innovative and Traditional Medical Schools', Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 8, pp. 77 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10401339609539771
,1996, 'Time For a Review of Admission to Medical School?', Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 51, pp. 282 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006254-199605000-00011
,1995, 'Time for a review of admission to medical school?', The Lancet, 346, pp. 1329 - 1333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(95)92344-6
,1995, 'Clinical competence of interns', Medical Education, 29, pp. 225 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1995.tb02835.x
,1995, 'Finding solutions to the rural doctor shortage: the roles of selection versus undergraduate medical education at Newcastle', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 25, pp. 512 - 517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.1995.tb01497.x
,1995, 'Communication skills of interns in New South Wales: In reply', Medical Journal of Australia, 162, pp. 498 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1995.tb140021.x
,1994, 'A comparison of eating behaviors in newly diagnosed NIDDM patients and case-matched control subjects', Diabetes Care, 17, pp. 1197 - 1199, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diacare.17.10.1197
,1994, 'Communication skills of interns in New South Wales', Medical Journal of Australia, 161, pp. 667 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb126914.x
,1994, 'Ratings of Performance of Graduates from Traditional and Nontraditional Medical Schools', Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 6, pp. 179 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10401339409539672
,Conference Papers
2024, 'Does use of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy increase the risk of congenital malformations in infants: Findings from a multi-national study', Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, presented at Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 20 March 2024 - 23 March 2024
,2023, 'Prevalence of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy use during pregnancy: a multi-national population-based study', Sydney, presented at Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines Intelligence Symposium 2023, Sydney, 02 November 2023 - 03 November 2023
,2023, 'The risk of congenital malformations in infants exposed in the first trimester to smoking cessation pharmacotherapies: A multi-national cohort study', Sydney, presented at Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines Intelligence Symposium 2023, Sydney, 02 November 2023 - 03 November 2023
,2023, 'Utilisation of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy: a multi-national population-based study', Adelaide, South Australia, presented at APSAD Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs 2023, Adelaide, South Australia, 27 October 2023 - 30 October 2023
,2023, 'The safety of quit smoking medications during pregnancy: the risk of congenital malformations in infants', UNSW Sydney, presented at National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre Symposium 2023, UNSW Sydney, 26 October 2023
,2023, 'First trimester exposure to smoking cessation pharmacotherapies and the risk of major congenital malformations: A multi-national cohort study', Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, presented at 39th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 23 August 2023
,2022, 'Immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Real-world survival and safety', in ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 30 - 31, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000879941200025&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2022, 'The PRIMCAT cohort study: Analysis of treatment utilisation, costs, and outcomes in Victoria for patients with cancer', in ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 180 - 181, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000871956500288&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2022, '| New South Wales, Long-term trajectories of prescription opioid use in New South Wales, Australia', in PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, WILEY, pp. 371 - 372, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000859084401349&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2022, 'A multivariate interrupted time series analysis assessing the impacts of half-pack sizes and increased access restrictions on publicly subsidized opioids in Australia', in PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, WILEY, pp. 541 - 542, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000859084402279&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2022, 'Hydroxysine initiation following drug safety advisories on cardiac arrhythmias in the UK and Canada: A longitudinal cohort study', in PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, WILEY, pp. 76 - 76, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000859084400146&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'A review of resource stratified guidelines for cancer: Are they all the same? Inter-guideline concordance for systemic treatment recommendations', in ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 159 - 160, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000717281500251&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Changes in systemic cancer therapy in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study', in ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 69 - 70, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000717281500042&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'THE COMPARATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR SAFETY OF SMOKING CESSATION PHARMACOTHERAPIES', in DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, WILEY, pp. S78 - S79, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000715073200195&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Bisphosphonate use and risk of ovarian cancer, a nested case-control study using national health data', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000695815900642&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Cardiac assessment in Australian patients receiving trastuzumab for HER2+early breast cancer', in ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 30 - 30, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000693805000050&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Long-term risk of distant metastasis and post-metastasis survival for breast cancer: health record linkage study', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000695815900386&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'What proportion of patients with chronic noncancer pain are prescribed an opioid medicine?', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000695815900406&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2021, 'Comparison of 10-and 15-year outcomes of bioprosthetic and mechanical aortic valve replacement in patients aged under 65 years: Australian study using linked data for 4,704 patients', in PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY, WILEY, pp. 48 - 48, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000687807300097&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
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