A whole-of-health system approach to improving care of frail older persons.

The population is aging, with frailty emerging as a significant risk factor for poor outcomes for older people who become acutely ill. We describe the development and implementation of the Frail Older Persons' Collaborative Program, which aims to optimise the care of frail older adults across healthcare systems in Queensland. Priority areas were identified at a co-design workshop involving key stakeholders, including consumers, multidisciplinary clinicians, senior Queensland Health staff and representatives from community providers and residential aged care facilities.

Percutaneous CT-guided biopsy of lytic bone lesions in patients clinically suspected of lung cancer: Diagnostic performances for pathological diagnosis and molecular testing.

Objectives: Bone is a common location for lung cancer metastasis. Clinicians are often reluctant to biopsy bone metastases, as they are known to require a decalcification process that damages nucleic acids, which makes it incompatible with molecular testing. We performed this study to assess the diagnostic performance of histopathology and molecular testing of computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous bone biopsies of lytic bone lesions during the initial assessment or during the progression of lung cancer.

Detection of pulmonary nodules: a clinical study protocol to compare ultra-low dose chest CT and standard low-dose CT using ASIR-V.

Introduction: Lung cancer screening in individuals at risk has been recommended by various scientific institutions. One of the main concerns for CT screening is repeated radiation exposure, with the risk of inducing malignancies in healthy individuals. Therefore, lowering the radiation dose is one of the main objectives for radiologists.