Campaign Disaster Response - What Makes It Different.

Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has seen health systems adapt and change in response to local and international experiences. This study describes the experiences and learnings by the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) in managing a campaign style, novel public health disaster response.

Methods: Disaster preparedness has focused on acute impact, mass casualty incidents.

Rehabilitation environments: Service users' perspective.

Background: Design of rehabilitation environments is usually "expert" driven with little consideration given to the perceptions of service users, especially patients and informal carers. There is a need to engage with consumers of services to gain their insights into what design aspects are required to facilitate optimum physical activity, social interaction and psychological responses when they are attempting to overcome their limitations and regain function.

Research Design: Qualitative exploratory study.

A comparison of 3 hand-held dynamometers used to measure hip abduction strength.

Quantification of strength with hand-held dynamometers is commonplace. Hand-held dynamometers offer ease of use; however, previous investigations have shown much variability between repeated measures using the same dynamometer. Even less is known regarding the degree of variability between various dynamometers.