The impact of Individual Placement and Support on employment, health and social outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aim: To examine the impact of integrated employment support and mental health treatment (Individual Placement and Support, or "IPS") on Aotearoa New Zealand participants' employment, income, health, education and justice outcomes.

Method: De-identified linked data from the Stats NZ Integrated Data Infrastructure and propensity score matching were used to estimate effects.

Results: In total, 1,659 IPS participants were matched to 1,503 non-participants.

A profile of adult patients with major burns admitted to a Level 1 Trauma Centre and their functional outcomes at discharge: A retrospective review.

Background: Patients with major burns suffer with pain, which impacts their physical function during hospitalisation.

Objectives: To describe the demographics, burn characteristics, clinical course, physical function, complications developed after major burns and to establish predictors of non-independent physical function at hospital discharge.

Method: Records of all consecutive adult burn admissions to a Level 1 Trauma Centre between 2015 and 2017 were screened retrospectively against our study criteria, using the Trauma Bank Data Registry.

Urethral fistula and perineal collection during intravesical treatment for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer - A rare complication.

Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) has been used as a treatment since 1976. It is effective in reducing disease recurrence and progression, with mostly self-limiting or mild side effects. Serious complications are rare and thought to be either related to systemic BCG infection (BCG-osis) or a systemic inflammatory response, and often require systemic anti-tuberculous therapy.

Understanding Overrepresentation of Indigenous Children in Child Welfare Data: An Application of the Drake Risk and Bias Models.

Child welfare data collected for administrative purposes are often used as a source of information for understanding the population impact of child abuse and neglect (CA/N). This study used administrative data linked at the individual level for a cohort of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) children to follow and extend a model developed by Drake et al. In this investigation, we aimed to build an understanding of the high representation of indigenous NZ children in administratively sourced measures of CA/N.

Predictive modeling: potential application in prevention services.

Introduction: In 2012, the New Zealand Government announced a proposal to introduce predictive risk models (PRMs) to help professionals identify and assess children at risk of abuse or neglect as part of a preventive early intervention strategy, subject to further feasibility study and trialing. The purpose of this study is to examine technical feasibility and predictive validity of the proposal, focusing on a PRM that would draw on population-wide linked administrative data to identify newborn children who are at high priority for intensive preventive services.

Methods: Data analysis was conducted in 2013 based on data collected in 2000-2012.

Limited role for outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia.

Background And Objective: This study examined the potential utility of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) as a means of reducing the excessive number of patients hospitalized with low-risk community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

Methods: A prospective feasibility study was conducted, in which a selection algorithm was applied to a cohort of patients admitted with suspected CAP, to identify a group in whom admission may have been prevented by the use of OPAT. Numbers of potentially suitable patients, inpatient bed days saved and frequency of adverse events that may have led to readmission were measured.

Kinetics of moisture expansion in fired clay ceramics: a (time)(1/4) law.

We report the results of experiments to estimate the moisture expansion of several modern and ancient clay brick ceramics from the time of manufacture. From these data we propose a new expansion law, in which the expansive strain increases as (age)(1/4) approximately. Such time dependence is consistent with a mechanism in which expansion arises from a diffusion-controlled rehydration reaction on a linear or low-dimension structure.