Journal articles

CONCLUSIONS: Despite lower sexual risk behaviours, international students were less likely to access STI testing, suggesting a greater understanding of IS health-seeking behaviour and health literacy is needed to inform suitable responses.

CONCLUSIONS: Among ANZ ICUs providing care for adults with msTBI, moderate or substantial variation was evident in over half of measured organisational and clinical aspects of care. These findings identify targets for research and quality improvement and highlight centre variation as a potential modifier of patient outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Prompt optimization improved matched-model point estimates, with the highest performance observed for predefined content detection and SBAR span extraction. Broad uncertainty extraction remained less accurate than the narrower unknown-fact task. These technical results do not establish clinical effectiveness, safety, or readiness for real-time use. Validation using authentic nursing handover communication and prospective evaluation in […]

CONCLUSIONS: In this study, the implementation of TDM did not significantly impact PK/PD target attainment, which underscores the importance of integrating a protocolised dose adaptation algorithm. Neurological adverse events were associated with drug overexposure and kidney function impairment.

The Australian Diabetes Foot Registry (ADFR) is a national prospective, longitudinal clinical quality registry established in 2020 to standardise data capture and reporting in Interdisciplinary Diabetes High Risk Foot Services. We describe the ADFR's methodology and early implementation outcomes. Stakeholder consultation informed development of the minimum dataset, governance framework and data-capture workflow. Centrally supported ethics […]

CONCLUSIONS: Among the 100 sampled publications, we observed considerable variation in study design and analysis, with key methodological decisions not always transparently reported. Improved reporting of design and analytical decisions is needed to strengthen the validity, reproducibility, and generalisability of registry‑based critical care research.

CONCLUSIONS: The toolkit could provide a practical mechanism for guiding educators and academic leaders in embedding digital health content into curricula within health education programs, supporting development of a future workforce equipped for evolving healthcare demands.

CONCLUSIONS: Most patients with PerCI in Australia and New Zealand had favourable long-term survival. After adjustment, the ≥90-day group emerged as a distinct exception, with a significantly higher hazard of death and five-year survival below 50%, despite its small size (N = 226). In contrast, ICU length of stay (ICU LOS) was not independently associated […]

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CONCLUSION: This is the first study to assess the utility of DFL as a biomarker for AL following colorectal anastomosis without TDI. The measurement of DFL has value as a strong negative predictor of AL and moderate impact on post-test probability. The results are comparable to the use of systemic biomarkers.

CONCLUSION: Communication access was uncertain and inconsistently supported for D/deaf patients. Improving care requires organisational approaches that embed interpreter access, visual communication systems and Deaf-informed training within routine practice.

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CONCLUSIONS: ECF on cardiac CT are common, and approximately 10% represent clinically significant abnormalities. In this cohort, clinically significant findings identified on CT left atrial mapping were associated with lower rates of documented follow-up compared with CTCA. These findings suggest a potential vulnerability in outpatient CTLA mapping pathways and support consideration of strategies to reduce […]

Soil underpins food production, freshwater, carbon storage and biodiversity, yet over 40% of the world's soils are now degraded, eroding at rates up to 1000 times their formation rate. Microbial technologies have matured and can now aid soil recovery, but deployment has lagged due to absent shared targets, harmonized metrics, and coherent reward structures to […]

CONCLUSIONS: Australia's IE profile is distinct, with a sharper rise in prevalence and IE-associated heart failure, despite declining mortality and disability. These findings suggest improved survival but increasing chronic morbidity, underscoring the need for enhanced post-acute care models and further research to explore underlying drivers, including evolving risk factors, healthcare access and long-term cardiac outcomes.