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BMJ Open
December 2024
The University of Newcastle College of Health Medicine and Wellbeing, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.
Introduction: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and the single most significant risk behaviour contributing to adverse health conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. There is an urgent need for innovative approaches to support reductions in smoking prevalence. This study will assess the implementation and effectiveness of a mailed smoking cessation support programme that includes nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) () for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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January 2025
Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Introduction: The SAGES Guidelines Committee creates evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Updates which incorporate new evidence into the guidelines are necessary to maintain relevance for clinical use. A description of our standard operating procedure for this process is described here, which contributes to SAGES' commitment to producing high-quality clinical recommendations.
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December 2024
College of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CAN.
Background The proportion of older people in the general population is rising. Accompanying this rise is an increased prevalence of frailty. Frailty is a syndrome of increased vulnerability to stressors due to decreased physiological reserve and is linked to increased health services use.
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February 2025
The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Objective: To measure current levels and experiences of food and water security in Walgett to guide a community-led program and to provide a baseline measure.
Design: A community-led cross-sectional survey conducted in April 2022 by trained local researchers.
Setting: Walgett, a regional town in NSW, Australia.
BMJ Open Ophthalmol
January 2025
Lions Eye Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
Aims: Compare the prevalence of age-related cataract and the cataract surgical coverage rate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and explore differences in these estimates across location and time.
Methods: The Joanna Briggs Institute guidance for systematic reviews of prevalence studies was followed. A systematic search of Medline, Embase, Web of Science and grey literature from database inception to June 2022 was performed.
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