Publications by authors named "Julie Ellen Byles"
Background: Musculoskeletal pain frequently occurs in more than one body region, with up to 80% of adults reporting more than one joint pain site in the last 12 months. Older people and females are known to be more susceptible to multiple joint pain sites, however the association of multisite joint pain with physical and psychosocial functions in this population are unknown.
Methods: Cross-sectional data from 579 women were analyzed.
Qualitative insights into the experience of pain in older Australian women with arthritis.
Australas J Ageing
September 2018
Objective: To explore qualitative insights into the pain experience of older women with quantitatively derived pain profiles.
Methods: The sequential mixed methods design involved applying quantitative pain profiles, derived from an earlier latent class analysis, to qualitative comments by a sample of older Australian women with arthritis. Data from a substudy of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, mid-aged cohort, born 1946-1951, were used.
Objective: To determine the agreement between two measures of medication use, namely telephone interview self-report and pharmaceutical claims data, in an elderly population.
Methods: An agreement study of 566 community-dwelling, general practice patients aged > or =65 years was conducted to compare self-reported use of medicines with pharmaceutical claims data for different retrieval periods. Classes of drugs commonly used in the elderly were selected for comparison.
Objectives: To investigate which patients general practitioners (GPs) selected for medication review based on risk factors for medication problems and patient demographics; to describe drug-related problems and actions taken to solve those problems during medication review consultations based on GPs' self-report.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Setting: General practices.