Resource utilization and disaggregated cost analysis of bariatric surgery in the Australian public healthcare system.

Objectives: To present a comprehensive real-world micro-costing analysis of bariatric surgery.

Methods: Patients were included if they underwent primary bariatric surgery (gastric banding [GB], gastric bypass [GBP] and sleeve gastrectomy [SG]) between 2013 and 2019. Costs were disaggregated into cost items and average-per-patient costs from the Australian healthcare systems perspective were expressed in constant 2019 Australian dollars for the entire cohort and subgroup analysis.

Healthcare resource utilisation and predictors for critical care unit admissions after primary bariatric surgery in an Australian public hospital setting: an exploratory study using a mixed-methods approach.

Objectives The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate resource use and predictors associated with critical care unit (CCU) admission after primary bariatric surgery within the Tasmanian public healthcare system. Methods Patients undergoing primary bariatric surgery in the Tasmanian Health Service (THS) public hospital system between 7 July 2013 and 30 June 2019 were eligible for inclusion in this study. The THS provides two levels of CCU support, an intensive care unit (ICU) and a high dependency unit (HDU).

The interplay between the effects of lifetime asthma, smoking, and atopy on fixed airflow obstruction in middle age.

Rationale: The contribution by asthma to the development of fixed airflow obstruction (AO) and the nature of its effect combined with active smoking and atopy remain unclear.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and relative influence of lifetime asthma, active smoking, and atopy on fixed AO in middle age.

Methods: The population-based Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study cohort born in 1961 (n = 8,583) and studied with prebronchodilator spirometry in 1968 was retraced (n = 7,312) and resurveyed (n = 5,729 responses) from 2002 to 2005.

Temporal associations with declining Trichomonas vaginalis diagnosis rates among women in the state of Victoria, Australia, 1947 to 2005.

Background: To investigate the temporal associations between Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) diagnoses in women at a large urban sexual health clinic and a major Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening laboratory in Victoria, Australia with Pap smear screening rates and the introduction of nitroimidazole treatments.

Methods: An ecological analysis of TV diagnosis rates at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and the Victorian Cytology Service, Pap smear screening rates and nitroimidazole prescription data.

Results: Diagnoses of TV at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre peaked in the 1950s at 20% to 30% and then rapidly declined through the 1960s and 1970s to below 1% in 1990.

Comparisons of trends in antiretroviral use and HIV notification rates between three Australian states.

Objective: Notification rates for HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) have been increasing, but this increase has not been uniform across States and Territories. This paper aims to determine whether differences in the levels of antiretroviral therapy (ART) were associated with differences in HIV notification rates between Australian States.

Methods: An ecological analysis of HIV notification and S100 drug prescribing data between 1998 and 2005.