Promoting sustained access to cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in Australia: a system-level implementation program.

Study Objectives: Insomnia is a highly prevalent and debilitating disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is the recommended 'fist line' treatment, but is accessed by a minority of people with insomnia. This paper describes a system-level implementation program to improve access to CBTi in Australia to inform CBTi implementation in other locations.

Stemming the flow: how much can the Australian smartphone app help to control COVID-19?

Objectives: Our objective is to assess the potential contribution of the Australian Government's mobile smartphone tracing app (COVIDSafe) to the sustained control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Study Type: Development and analysis of a system dynamics model.

Methods: To define the pandemic context and specify model-building parameters, we searched for literature on COVID-19, its epidemiology in Australia, case finding processes, and factors that might affect community acceptance of the COVIDSafe smartphone app for contact tracing.

Medical graduates becoming rural doctors: rural background versus extended rural placement.

Objectives: To determine whether recruitment of rural students and uptake of extended rural placements are associated with students' expressed intentions to undertake rural internships and students' acceptance of rural internships after finishing medical school, and to compare any associations.

Design, Setting And Participants: Longitudinal study of three successive cohorts (commencing 2005, 2006, 2007) of medical students in the Sydney Medical Program (SMP), University of Sydney, New South Wales, using responses to self-administered questionnaires upon entry to and exit from the Sydney Medical School and data recorded in rolls.

Main Outcome Measures: Students' expressed intentions to undertake rural internships, and their acceptance of rural internships after finishing medical school.

Opinions on the content and effects of the Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (CARI) Guidelines: a survey of renal nurses and comparison with the opinions of nephrologists in Australasia.

Aim: Renal nurses in Australia and New Zealand are critical to the care of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially those on dialysis. We aimed to obtain the opinions of renal nurses in Australia and New Zealand on the Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment (CARI) Guidelines.

Methods: A self-administered survey was distributed to all members of the professional organisation for renal nurses (Renal Society of Australasia) in 2006.

Nephrologists' perspectives on the effect of guidelines on clinical practice: a semistructured interview study.

Background: A consistent gap exists between evidence-based guideline recommendations and clinical practice across all medical disciplines, including nephrology. This study aims to explore nephrologists' perspectives on guidelines and elicit their perspectives on the effects of guidelines on clinical decisions.

Methods: Semistructured face-to-face interviews were undertaken with 19 nephrologists from a variety of clinical settings across Australia.

Opinions on the content and effects of clinical practice guidelines for CKD: a survey of nephrologists in Australia and New Zealand.

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been a major development in nephrology internationally, but it is uncertain how the nephrology community regards these guidelines. This study aimed to determine the views of nephrologists on the content and effects of their local guidelines (Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment [CARI]). In 2006, a self-administered survey was distributed to all Australian and New Zealand nephrologists.

Surgical procedures for melanoma in public and private New South Wales hospitals, 2001-2002.

Background: Evidence suggests that there is considerable variation in the types of procedures used to treat cancer. This variation may result in suboptimal or cost-ineffective care. The present study examined the variation in surgical treatment of melanoma before the establishment of a Melanoma Network that could promote more uniform high-quality care in New South Wales (NSW).

Community pharmacy in Australia.

This article describes the evolution of community pharmacy in the Australian health system, and assesses its current and potential future contribution to health care. A central theme is the unique extent and accessibility of community pharmacy to the public, with a vast and dispersed infrastructure that is funded by private enterprise. The viability of community pharmacy as a retail trade depends on a diversification of its service roles and retention of its product-supply roles.