Publications by authors named "O B Wright"
Objective: High-quality food, nutrition and dining are essential tenets of residential aged care facilities (RACF). Residential aged care facilities provide website information on their services for prospective residents, which may offer insight into food, nutrition and dining practices. This study aimed to describe the food, nutrition and dining information on RACF websites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectiveWorkforce shortages in hospitals have necessitated a focus on recruitment and retention of health professionals. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesise literature relating to factors that affect recruitment and retention of allied health professionals working in hospital settings.MethodPubMed, CINAHL (via EbscoHost), Embase (via Elsevier), and Scopus Advanced Search databases were used to retrieve 1665 studies, of which 16 were included.
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- This scoping review examines team-based outpatient treatment for eating disorders, emphasizing team composition, health outcomes, and the principles of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP).
- A thorough search identified 45 studies, mainly consisting of case reports or lacking strong primary data, highlighting common team members like mental health professionals and dietitians but a lack of comprehensive outcome measures.
- The findings suggest that the current evidence for team outpatient treatment is weak, calling for improved integration of team roles, better outcome assessments, and a more consistent application of IPCP principles in future research.
Heart failure (HF) creates a considerable clinical, humanistic and economic burden on patients and caregivers as well as on healthcare systems. To attenuate the significant burden of HF, there is a need for enhanced management of patients with HF. The use of digital tools for remote non-invasive monitoring of heart parameters is gaining traction, and cardiac acoustic biomarkers (CABs) have been proposed as a complementary set of measures to assess heart function alongside traditional methods such as electrocardiogram and echocardiography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the metastatic cascade, cancer cells travel through the bloodstream as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to a secondary site. Clustered CTCs have greater shear stress and treatment resistance, yet their biology remains poorly understood. We therefore engineered a tunable superhydrophobic array device (SHArD).
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