What is the economic and social return on investment for telephone cancer information and support services in Australia? An evaluative social return on investment study protocol.

Introduction: Over 50% of people affected by cancer report unmet support needs. To address unmet information and psychological needs, non-government organisations such as Cancer Councils (Australia) have developed state-based telephone cancer information and support services. Due to competing demands, evidence of the value of these services is needed to ensure that future investment makes the best use of scarce resources.

Characteristics of patients who return unplanned to the ED, and factors that contribute to their decision to return: Integrated results from an explanatory sequential mixed methods inquiry.

Aim: To identify common characteristics of patients who return to the ED unplanned and factors that may contribute to their decision to return.

Background: Return visits to the Emergency Department (ED) have been associated with adverse events and deficits in initial care provided. There is increasing evidence to suggest that many return visits may be preventable.

Clinician perspectives on reasons for, implications and management of unplanned patient returns to the Emergency Department: A descriptive study.

Background: Unplanned return visits to the emergency department (ED) have been associated with adverse outcomes and may reflect the quality of care delivered. Several studies speculate the reasons for return and suggest clinician behaviour as potentially influencing a patient's decision to return to the ED. There is little research about this issue from the clinician's perspective, which is necessary to inform future practice improvement.

Predictors and outcomes of patients that return unplanned to the Emergency Department and require critical care admission: A multicenter study.

Objective: To determine the incidence, characteristics (including timeframe) and predictors of patients discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) that later return and require admission.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study examining all return visits to three EDs in Sydney, Australia, over a 12-month period. Patients returning within 28 days from ED discharge with the same or similar complaint were classified as a return visit to ensure capture of all return visits.

Stakeholder Generated Ideas for Alternative School Food Provision Models in Australia Using the Nominal Group Technique.

Good nutrition is important for children's learning, growth, and development, yet food intake during school hours does not align with recommendations. In Australia, most school children currently bring a packed lunch from home, but what if there was a different way? This project aimed to engage a diverse range of stakeholders to (1) generate, refine and prioritize ideas for novel models of food provision to Australian children within school hours, and (2) to determine and rank the potential barriers and facilitators to changing the school food provision system. This study used nominal group technique virtual workshops-three idea generation workshops ( = 21 participants) and one consensus workshop ( = 11 participants).

Identifying return visits to the Emergency Department: A multi-centre study.

Background: Patients who return to the Emergency Department (ED) for the same complaint are known to be at risk of adverse events. Monitoring of return visits is considered a way to measure the quality of care provided in the ED, although the most commonly used benchmark of 48h lacks evidence. This study aimed to describe the incidence, characteristics and outcomes of patients with unplanned return visits.

Valuing the impact of health and social care programs using social return on investment analysis: how have academics advanced the methodology? A systematic review.

Objectives: To identify how social return on investment (SROI) analysis-traditionally used by business consultants-has been interpreted, used and innovated by academics in the health and social care sector and to assess the quality of peer-reviewed SROI studies in this sector.

Design: Systematic review.

Settings: Community and residential settings.

Developing a new quality of life instrument with older people for economic evaluation in aged care: study protocol.

Introduction: The ageing of the population represents a significant challenge for aged care in Australia and in many other countries internationally. In an environment of increasing resource constraints, new methods, techniques and evaluative frameworks are needed to support resource allocation decisions that maximise the quality of life and well-being of older people. Economic evaluation offers a rigorous, systematical and transparent framework for measuring quality and efficiency, but there is currently no composite mechanism for incorporating older people's values into the measurement and valuation of quality of life for quality assessment and economic evaluation.

Incidence, characteristics and outcomes of patients that return to Emergency Departments. An integrative review.

Background: Unplanned return visits account for up to 5% of Emergency Department presentations in Australia and have been associated with adverse events and increased costs. A large number of studies examine the incidence, characteristics and outcomes of unplanned return visits but few studies examine the reasons for return from a patient perspective. The objective of this integrative review was to determine the incidence, characteristics, outcomes and reasons for unplanned return visits to Emergency Departments.

Valuing the impact of health and social care programmes using social return on investment analysis: how have academics advanced the methodology? A protocol for a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature.

Introduction: Unlike other forms of evaluation, social return on investment (SROI) methodology offers a way of placing values on personal, social and community outcomes, not just economic outcomes. Developed in 2000, there have been calls for greater academic involvement in development of SROI, which to date has been more typically implemented in-house or by consultants. This protocol describes a systematic review of SROI analysis conducted on health and social care programmes which represent a significant sector of social enterprise internationally.

Randomised control trial of humidified high flow nasal cannulae versus standard oxygen in the emergency department.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine if oxygen delivered through humidified high flow nasal cannulae (HHFNC) reduced the need for escalation in ventilation management and work of breathing in the ED patients presenting with acute undifferentiated shortness of breath compared with standard oxygen therapy.

Methods: This was an unblinded randomised control trial conducted at two hospital EDs in Sydney, Australia. Eligible patients presenting with shortness of breath were randomised to HHFNC or standard oxygen therapy.