Journal articles

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the feasibility and potential impact of a 6-week pet robot intervention and implementation in a RACF facility to support residents living with dementia. Findings provide insights into strategies that might increase the routinisation of pet robots in dementia care; future studies could consider further refining, enhancing and formally evaluating these strategies.

CONCLUSIONS: PROMs are not routinely used to inform clinical practice in paediatric HSCT, and current evidence provides only a partial understanding of symptom trajectories and lived symptom experiences during the paediatric acute transplant admission. To realise the full potential of PROMs in enhancing symptom assessment and management, systematic PROMs integration into clinical workflows is required, […]

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CONCLUSION: The SmartHeart app was refined through user-centred design process involving direct feedback from individuals with heart failure, resulting in a self-care tool with user-friendly features, to be further evaluated in future research. These user-driven enhancements support self-care engagement and highlight the app's potential for real-world use and broader clinical integration.

CONCLUSIONS: Socioeconomic factors are associated with access to specialized ACHD services among young adults. Strategies to ensure equity in care should be explored.

AimTo describe the risk of post-procedural peritoneal dialysis (PD) peritonitis episodes following gastroscopy and colonoscopy over a 15-year period in Australia and New Zealand.BackgroundThe risk of post-procedural PD peritonitis is well recognised following colonoscopy and current ISPD guidelines recommend prophylactic antibiotics. Current guidelines do not recommend this prior to gastroscopy alone due to low level […]

CONCLUSIONS: In ANZ, MIO was associated with fewer complications and comparable survival compared to open transthoracic esophagectomy. These findings support the safety of MIO in lower-volume settings in the era of perioperative FLOT chemotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS: Remifentanil PCA can provide effective labour analgesia, particularly when neuraxial techniques are contraindicated or declined. Despite some inherent risks, when managed within defined parameters, there is now an established record of efficacy and safety. It is essential that labour wards have clear protocols for administration and monitoring, and for staff to be trained in […]

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether prompt genetic diagnosis in children with KCNQ2 neonatal epilepsy enabling targeted therapy is associated with improved outcomes, and identify early predictors of developmental outcomes.

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CONCLUSIONS: Adjunctive vasopressin use was not associated with major adverse kidney events or mortality in patients requiring vasopressors after cardiac surgery. Heterogeneity of treatment effect by illness severity warrants prospective evaluation.

CONCLUSION: Simulation modelling was useful for understanding outcomes from a neurodevelopmental pathway and how differences in screening and assessment affected health service interactions. Findings may inform policy and resource planning for future neurodevelopmental pathways.

People with cystic fibrosis have an elevated risk of gastrointestinal malignancy. The prevalence of colorectal cancer is increasing with improving life expectancy in the CFTR modulator era. We report a case of colorectal cancer in a patient with severe cystic fibrosis lung disease, which was complicated by pulmonary embolism and potential Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. This case […]

Circadian rhythm is an endogenous 24-hour timing system that coordinates metabolic, inflammatory, and reparative processes required for tissue homeostasis. Disruption of this temporal organization, increasingly common because of shift work, sleep disturbance, and other modern lifestyle factors, has been implicated in chronic inflammatory and metabolic diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA). Experimental studies indicate that circadian dysregulation […]

CONCLUSION: Secondary use of open-ended PREM comments for research is growing, but it is not yet widely used. Using these already collected data for research eliminates the time and cost of additional data collection and incorporates patient voice into research. A formal framework for secondary use of open-ended PREM comments will support incorporating these data […]