10 results match your criteria: "University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health[Affiliation]"
BMJ Open Respir Res
December 2024
University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
BMJ Open
May 2024
School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences, University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Objectives: Diet and physical activity are crucial for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to maintain good health. Digital health interventions can increase access to lifestyle services. However, consumers' perspectives are unclear, which may reduce the capacity to develop interventions that align with specific needs and preferences.
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November 2023
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.
Mangrove forests are the dominant vegetation growing on low wooded islands, which occur in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. In the northern Great Barrier Reef, we map remarkable, undocumented mangrove forest extension on 10 low wooded islands in the Howick Group that collectively equates to an area of 667 000 m (66.7 ha).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Support Palliat Care
May 2023
School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.
Background: Healthcare organisations are transforming the way care is delivered to people with a life-limiting illness with an increased focus on recognising the voice of the persons experiencing the illness and putting them in the centre of decision-making. However, the clinical practice remains largely based on the views of healthcare professionals and families or carers of the person with the illness.
Objectives: To synthesise the best available evidence on the experience of persons living with a life-limiting illness about expressing their voice during communication with healthcare professionals.
BMJ Open
February 2023
IMPACCT (Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation), University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Health, Broadway, New South Wales, Australia.
Introduction: Many patients experience unrelieved neuropathic cancer-related pain. Most current analgesic therapies have psychoactive side effects, lack efficacy data for this indication and have potential medication-related harms. The local anaesthetic lidocaine (lignocaine) has the potential to help manage neuropathic cancer-related pain when administered as an extended, continuous subcutaneous infusion.
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November 2022
Department of Public Health & Disease Control, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Objective: To determine the illness severity and mortality among COVID-19-infected healthcare workers (HCWs).
Design: A retrospective cohort study using population-level data. Secondary analysis was conducted on collated data from the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) at the State Ministry of Health, Rivers State, Nigeria.
BMJ Open
August 2022
School of Medicine, University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Background: The increasing incidence of cancer, coupled with improved survivorship, has increased demand for cancer follow-up care and the need to find alternative models of care. Shared cancer follow-up care in general practice is a safe option in terms of quality of life and cancer recurrence; however, there are barriers to translating this into practice. This review aimed to identify factors that influence the translation of shared cancer follow-up care into clinical practice.
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August 2022
Pediatrics, PIMSR, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
J Ren Care
December 2017
University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Background: In Australia over 1100 people are living on dialysis while waiting for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Worldwide there are an estimated 170,000 people who wait an average of three years before an organ becomes available.
Objective: To provide an understanding of the lived experience of people waiting on dialysis for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor.
Age Ageing
November 2016
University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.