Hepatitis C virus point-of-care RNA testing: Experience from screening an entire high-security Australian prison population over 3 days.

Objective: Point-of-care testing for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in high-risk populations is key to diagnosing and eliminating HCV. We aimed to test all occupants for HCV in an entire prison.

Methods: All consenting participants at the Brisbane Women's Correctional Centre were tested for HCV over 3 days using fingerstick samples.

Low back pain presentations to rural, regional, and metropolitan emergency departments.

Objective: To describe the context of low back pain (LBP) presentations to emergency departments (EDs) by remoteness areas, hospital delineation level and staffing portfolios.

Design: A retrospective observational study using routinely captured ED and admission data over a 5-year period (July 2014-June 2019).

Settings: Thirty seven EDs across a large health district in NSW, Australia, covering major cities, inner regional areas and outer regional areas.

Perspectives of emergency department clinicians on the challenges of addressing low back pain in the emergency setting: A qualitative study.

Objective: To identify and explore ED clinician perspectives on: (i) why patients with low back pain (LBP) present to the ED and are admitted into hospital from ED; (ii) barriers and enablers they face when providing care to patients with LBP; and (iii) strategies to improve the care of patients with LBP, and associated care processes, in the ED.

Methods: We undertook a qualitative exploratory study with ED clinicians (medical officers, nurses and physiotherapists) at a tertiary-level public hospital in New South Wales, Australia, using focus groups and individual interviews. We used thematic analysis to synthesise participant responses to answer the predefined research questions.

The Madoffization of Irish society: from Ponzi finance to sociological critique.

Financialization and neoliberal policy created the Celtic Tiger. This economic 'miracle' furthered creditors' and property developers' speculative interests, leading to an unstable financial pyramid that eventually imploded in 2008 with catastrophic consequences for Irish society. Using the sociological imagination as social critique, this paper offers a lens on fictitious capital and Ponzi finance in the context of Ireland's boom and bust.