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Australian Health Review explores health policy and management including healthcare delivery systems, clinical programs, and health financing. More

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Published online 04 May 2012
Australian maternity reform through clinical redesign 
Donna L. Hartz, Jan White, Kathleen A. Lainchbury, Helen Gunn, Helen Jarman, Alec W. Welsh, Daniel Challis and Sally K. Tracy
 
  


 
Published online 04 May 2012
The future of community-centred health services in Australia – an alternative view 
Paul A. Cunningham, , and Emergency Physician Staff Specialist
 
  


 
Published online 04 May 2012
Addressing the workplace needs of Western Australian midwives: a Delphi study 
Yvonne L. Hauck, Sara J. Bayes and Jeanette M. Robertson
 
  


 
Published online 04 May 2012
Why are junior doctors deterred from choosing a surgical career? 
Mary E. Rogers, Peter A. Creed and Judy Searle
 
  


 
Published online 28 February 2012
Effect of a chronic disease management service for patients with diabetes on hospitalisation and acute care costs 
Tshepo M. Rasekaba, W. Kwang Lim and Anastasia F. Hutchinson
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Published online 28 February 2012
Do smoke-free environment policies reduce smoking on hospital grounds? Evaluation of a smoke-free health service policy at two Sydney hospitals 
 
  



Australian Health Review
Volume 36 Number 1 2012

 
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Controlled clinical trial of a self-management program for people with mental illness in an adult mental health service – the Optimal Health Program (OHP) 
Monica M. Gilbert, James A. Chamberlain, Carolynne R. White, Paul W. Mayers, Brendan Pawsey, Danny Liew, Matthew Musgrave, Kerry Crawford and David J. Castle
pp. 1-7
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Standardising practices improves clinical diabetic foot management: the Queensland Diabetic Foot Innovation Project, 2006–09 
Peter A. Lazzarini, Sharon R. O'Rourke, Anthony W. Russell, Patrick H. Derhy and Maarten C. Kamp
pp. 8-15
 
  
 


 
An organised approach to the podiatric care of people with diabetes in regional Australia 
Byron M. Perrin, Marcus J. Gardner, Susan R. Kennett, Jodie L. Cornelius and Michael J. Fanning
pp. 16-21
 
  
 


 
How nurse practitioners implement their roles 
Jane L. Desborough
pp. 22-26
 
  
 


 
Universal for whom? Evaluating an urban Aboriginal population's access to a mainstream universal health home visiting program 
John Widdup, Elizabeth J. Comino, Vana Webster and Jennifer Knight
pp. 27-33
   |        Open Access Article
 


 
Influence of living arrangements on health services utilisation in Australia 
M. Afzal Mahmood, Anna E. Bauze, Justin T. Lokhorst, Peng Bi and Arthur Saniotis
pp. 34-38
 
  
 


 
Effective change management in a regional Sub-acute Ambulatory Care Services setting 
Bruce W. Campbell
pp. 39-42
 
  
 


 
Engaging medical staff in clinical governance: introducing new technologies and clinical practice into public hospitals 
Alison J. Dwyer, Gavin Becker, Cindy Hawkins, Lisa McKenzie and Malcolm Wells
pp. 43-48
 
  
 


 
Adaptive decision-making: how Australian healthcare managers decide 
Abdolvahab Baghbanian, Ian Hughes, Ali Kebriaei and Freidoon A. Khavarpour
pp. 49-56
 
  
 


 
Opportunistic evidence: evidence-based policy in the setting of the Australian Government's chlamydia screening pilot 
Simon R. Crouch
pp. 57-60
 
  
 


 
The Victorian experience of transitional registration for Chinese Medicine practitioners and its implications for national registration 
Wenyu Zhou, Anthony Lin Zhang, Brian H. May, Vivian K. Lin, Anne-Louise Carlton and Charlie Changli Xue
pp. 61-67
 
  
 


 
Do Indigenous Australians age prematurely? The implications of life expectancy and health conditions of older Indigenous people for health and aged care policy 
Philippa R. Cotter, John R. Condon, Tony Barnes, Ian P. S. Anderson, Leonard R. Smith and Teresa Cunningham
pp. 68-74
   |        Open Access Article
 


 
Managing projected midwifery workforce deficits through collaborative partnerships 
Meredith J. McIntyre, Alison M. Patrick, Linda K. Jones, Michelle Newton, Helen McLachlan, Jane Morrow and Harriet Morton
pp. 75-78
 
  
 


 
Bringing them home: a Gippsland mental health workforce recruitment strategy 
Keith Sutton, Darryl Maybery and Terry Moore
pp. 79-82
 
  
 


 
Stabilising the aged care workforce: an analysis of worker retention and intention 
Anna L. Howe, Debra S. King, Julie M. Ellis, Yvonne D. Wells, Zhang Wei and Karen A. Teshuva
pp. 83-91
 
  
 


 
Effective clinical supervision for regional allied health professionals – the supervisee's perspective 
Margaret Dawson, Bev Phillips and Sandra G. Leggat
pp. 92-97
 
  
 


 
Uptake and implementation of Advance Care Planning in Australia: findings of key informant interviews 
Joel J. Rhee, Nicholas A. Zwar and Lynn A. Kemp
pp. 98-104
 
  
 


 
Diabetes-related major lower limb amputation in Far North Queensland, 1998–2008 
Sharon R. O'Rourke, Christina M. Steffen, Alexandra Raulli and Fiona J. Tulip
pp. 105-109
 
  
 


 
Judging a patient's decision to seek emergency healthcare: clues for managing increasing patient demand 
Amee Morgans and Stephen Burgess
pp. 110-114
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Palliative care case conferencing involving general practice: an argument for a facilitated standard process 
Graydon Davison and Tania M. Shelby-James
pp. 115-119
 
  
 




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1. Published 25 August 2011
Closing the (service) gap: exploring partnerships between Aboriginal and mainstream health services

Kate P. Taylor and Sandra C. Thompson

2. Published 25 August 2010
Implications of excess weight on mental wellbeing

Jodie Morris, Stefan Koehn, Brenda Happell, Trudy Dwyer and Lorna Moxham

3. Published 25 August 2011
Role of Australian primary healthcare organisations (PHCOs) in primary healthcare (PHC) workforce planning: lessons from abroad

Lucio Naccarella, James Buchan, Bill Newton and Peter Brooks

4. Published 25 November 2011
Complex health service needs for people who are homeless

Gaye Moore, Elizabeth Manias and Marie Frances Gerdtz

5. Published 24 February 2012
How nurse practitioners implement their roles

Jane L. Desborough

6. Published 25 November 2010
ISBAR for clear communication: one hospital's experience spreading the message

Monica A. Finnigan, Stuart D. Marshall and Brendan T. Flanagan

7. Published 25 November 2010
'I don't know why they don't come': barriers to participation in cardiac rehabilitation

Michelle L. DiGiacomo, Sandra C. Thompson, Julie S. Smith, Kate P. Taylor, Lynette A. Dimer, Mohammed A. Ali, Marianne M. Wood, Timothy G. Leahy and Patricia M. Davidson

8. Published 25 August 2011
Resource allocation and economic evaluation in Australia's healthcare system

Abdolvahab Baghbanian, Ian Hughes and Freidoon A. Khavarpour

9. Published 25 May 2010
An integrative review of the role of registered nurses in remote and isolated practice

Meaghan Coyle, Mohammad A. Al-Motlaq, Jane Mills, Karen Francis and Melanie Birks

10. Published 25 August 2011
Comparing the coding of complications in Queensland and Victorian admitted patient data

Jude L. Michel, Diana Cheng and Terri J. Jackson

11. Published 25 May 2011
Mapping maternity services in Australia: location, classification and services

Caroline S. E. Homer, Janice Biggs, Geraldine Vaughan and Elizabeth A. Sullivan

12. Published 25 November 2011
Frequent emergency attenders: is there a better way?

Sue E. Kirby, Sarah M. Dennis, Upali W. Jayasinghe and Mark F. Harris

13. Published 25 August 2011
Do triage systems in healthcare improve patient flow? A systematic review of the literature

Katherine E. Harding, Nicholas F. Taylor and Sandra G. Leggat

14. Published 24 February 2012
Standardising practices improves clinical diabetic foot management: the Queensland Diabetic Foot Innovation Project, 2006–09

Peter A. Lazzarini, Sharon R. O'Rourke, Anthony W. Russell, Patrick H. Derhy and Maarten C. Kamp

15. Published 25 May 2011
Trial of an allied health workload allocation model

Nadine C. Simmons and Suzanne S. Kuys

16. Published 25 November 2011
'All these allied health professionals and you're not really sure when you use them': insights from Australian international medical graduates on working with allied health

Pam D. McGrath, David Henderson, John Tamargo and Hamish A. Holewa

17. Published 25 May 2011
Building capacity in Australian interprofessional health education: perspectives from key health and higher education stakeholders

Lynda R. Matthews, Rosalie B. Pockett, Gillian Nisbet, Jill E. Thistlethwaite, Roger Dunston, Alison Lee and Jill F. White

18. Published 25 August 2011
A residential aged care end-of-life care pathway (RAC EoLCP) for Australian aged care facilities

Liz Reymond, Fiona J. Israel and Margaret A. Charles

19. Published 25 August 2011
Paying the right price for pharmaceuticals: a case study of why the comparator matters

Jean M. Spinks and Jeff R. J. Richardson

20. Published 25 August 2010
The reported benefits of telehealth for rural Australians

Jennifer J. Moffatt and Diann S. Eley

21. Published 25 May 2011
'Nowhere to room … nobody told them': logistical and cultural impediments to Aboriginal peoples' participation in cancer treatment

Shaouli Shahid, Lizzie Finn, Dawn Bessarab and Sandra C. Thompson

22. Published 25 August 2011
Effective discharge planning – timely assignment of an estimated date of discharge

Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, Lis Young, Nancy Santiano, La-Stacey Baramy and Ken Hillman

23. Published 25 May 2011
Clinical informatics: a workforce priority for 21st century healthcare

Susan E. Smith, Lesley E. Drake, Julie-Gai B. Harris, Kay Watson and Peter G. Pohlner

24. Published 25 May 2011
How is advance care planning conceptualised in Australia? Findings from key informant interviews

Joel J. Rhee and Nicholas A. Zwar

25. Published 25 March 2010
Treating an unhealthy organisational culture: the implications of the Bundaberg Hospital Inquiry for managerial ethical decision making

Gian Luca Casali and Gary E. Day

26. Published 25 November 2011
The state of physical environments in Australian residential aged care facilities

Kirsten J. Moore, Keith D. Hill, Andrew L. Robinson, Terry P. Haines, Betty Haralambous and Jennifer C. Nitz

27. Published 25 May 2011
End-of-life care in acute hospitals

Ken M. Hillman

28. Published 25 November 2011
The nuts and bolts of pills and potions: the functions of a drug safety working group

Noleen S. Nath, Ellen H. Jones, Peter Stride, Manuja Premaratne, Darshit Thaker and Ivan Lim

29. Published 25 May 2011
Determining priority of access to physiotherapy at Victorian community health services

Alison M. C. Brown and Marie Pirotta

30. Published 25 November 2011
The status of Australian nurse practitioners: the second national census

Sandy Middleton, Anne Gardner, Glenn Gardner and Phillip R. Della

31. Published 25 May 2011
Segmenting a general practitioner market to improve recruitment outcomes

Elizabeth Hemphill and Carol T. Kulik

32. Published 24 February 2012
Uptake and implementation of Advance Care Planning in Australia: findings of key informant interviews

Joel J. Rhee, Nicholas A. Zwar and Lynn A. Kemp

33. Published 25 November 2011
Lung health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders: breathing easy is not so easy

Kerry-Ann F. O'Grady, Amber Revell, Graeme P. Maguire, Renate Millonig, Michael A. Newman, David W. Reid, Deborah C. Hill and Anne B. Chang

34. Published 25 May 2011
Receptionists in intake in community health

Rohena H. Duncombe

35. Published 25 November 2011
Two hundred days of nurse practitioner prescribing and role development: a case study report from a hospital-based acute pain management team

Anthony V. Schoenwald

36. Published 25 November 2011
The active management of surgical waiting lists: a urological surgery case study

Russell J. Briggs, Katrina M. Smith, Ebony M. Dejager, John T. Callahan, Jennifer A. Abernethy, Eddie J. Dunn and David J. Hunter-Smith

37. Published 25 August 2011
Prevalence and prevention of workplace aggression in Australian clinical medical practice

Danny J. Hills, Catherine M. Joyce and John S. Humphreys

38. Published 25 August 2010
Rural health career pathways: research themes in recruitment and retention

Karin A. Fisher and John D. Fraser

39. Published 25 November 2010
Aboriginal cultural awareness training: policy v. accountability – failure in reality

Barbara Westwood and Geoff Westwood

40. Published 25 August 2011
Indigenous participation in an informal national Indigenous health policy network

Mark J. Lock, David P. Thomas, Ian P. Anderson and Philippa Pattison

41. Published 25 August 2011
From theory to practice of electronic handover

Sara L. Barnes, Donald A. Campbell, Keith A. Stockman and Dirk Wunderlink

42. Published 25 March 2010
A population study on Indigenous hospitalisations for interpersonal violence

Lynn B. Meuleners, Andy H. Lee, Delia Hendrie and Michelle Fraser

43. Published 25 August 2011
Effects of the Medicare enhanced primary care program on primary care physician contact in the population of older Western Australians with chronic diseases

David A. J. Gibson, Rachael E. Moorin, David B. Preen, Jon D. Emery and C. D'Arcy J Holman

44. Published 25 August 2010
The impact of nurses on patient morbidity and mortality – the need for a policy change in response to the nursing shortage

Di Twigg, Christine Duffield, Peter L. Thompson and Pat Rapley

45. Published 25 May 2011
Psychosocial oncology services in New South Wales

Nicole M. Rankin, Jennifer A. Barron, Lisbeth G. Lane, Catherine A. Mason, Sue Sinclair and James F. Bishop

46. Published 24 February 2012
Influence of living arrangements on health services utilisation in Australia

M. Afzal Mahmood, Anna E. Bauze, Justin T. Lokhorst, Peng Bi and Arthur Saniotis

47. Published 25 November 2011
Comorbidity indexes from administrative datasets: what is measured?

Shyamala G. Nadathur

48. Published 24 February 2012
Engaging medical staff in clinical governance: introducing new technologies and clinical practice into public hospitals

Alison J. Dwyer, Gavin Becker, Cindy Hawkins, Lisa McKenzie and Malcolm Wells

49. Published 25 August 2010
Sustainable workforce reform: case study of Victorian nurse practitioner roles

Julie Considine and Katy Fielding

50. Published 25 November 2011
Does workforce regulation have the intended effect? The case of Chinese medicine practitioner registration

Vivian Lin and Debra Gillick

51. Published 25 November 2011
The social mission of Australian medical schools in a time of expansion

John S. G. Biggs and Robert W. Wells

52. Published 25 November 2010
Response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Australia – lessons from a State health department perspective

Tarun S. Weeramanthri, Andrew G. Robertson, Gary K. Dowse, Paul V. Effler, Muriel G. Leclercq, Jeremy D. Burtenshaw, Susan J. Oldham, David W. Smith, Kathryn J. Gatti and Helen M. Gladstones

53. Published 25 August 2011
Hospital discharge: recommendations for performance improvement for family carers of people with dementia

Leslie R. Fitzgerald, Michael Bauer, Susan H. Koch and Susan J. King

54. Published 25 August 2010
From leader to leadership: clinician managers and where to next?

Liz Fulop and Gary E. Day

55. Published 25 November 2011
Use of consensus methods to select clinical indicators to assess activities to minimise functional decline among older hospitalised patients

Joanne Tropea, Bhasker Amatya, Caroline A. Brand and The Expert Advisory Group

56. Published 24 February 2012
Managing projected midwifery workforce deficits through collaborative partnerships

Meredith J. McIntyre, Alison M. Patrick, Linda K. Jones, Michelle Newton, Helen McLachlan, Jane Morrow and Harriet Morton

57. Published 25 November 2010
Efficient funding: a path to improving Aboriginal healthcare in Australia?

Jane E. Lloyd and Marilyn J. Wise

58. Published 25 November 2011
A cost analysis of febrile neutropenia management in Australia: ambulatory v. in-hospital treatment

Senthil Lingaratnam, Leon J. Worth, Monica A. Slavin, Craig A. Bennett, Suzanne W. Kirsa, John F. Seymour, Andrew Dalton, Bogda Koczwara, H. Miles Prince, Mary O'Reilly, Linda Mileshkin, Jeff Szer and Karin A. Thursky

59. Published 24 February 2012
Diabetes-related major lower limb amputation in Far North Queensland, 1998–2008

Sharon R. O'Rourke, Christina M. Steffen, Alexandra Raulli and Fiona J. Tulip

60. Published 24 February 2012
An organised approach to the podiatric care of people with diabetes in regional Australia

Byron M. Perrin, Marcus J. Gardner, Susan R. Kennett, Jodie L. Cornelius and Michael J. Fanning

61. Published 25 November 2010
Climate change and Australia's healthcare system – risks, research and responses

Haylee J. Weaver, Grant A. Blashki, Anthony G. Capon and Anthony J. McMichael

62. Published 25 May 2011
Hidden costs associated with the universal application of risk management in maternity care

Meredith J. McIntyre, Ysanne Chapman and Karen Francis

63. Published 24 February 2012
Adaptive decision-making: how Australian healthcare managers decide

Abdolvahab Baghbanian, Ian Hughes, Ali Kebriaei and Freidoon A. Khavarpour

64. Published 25 May 2010
The Australian Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) – measuring the quality and outcomes of palliative care on a routine basis

Kathy Eagar, Prue Watters, David C. Currow, Samar M. Aoun and Patsy Yates

65. Published 25 November 2011
The efficient price: an opportunity for funding reform

Jonathan Karnon, David I. Ben-Tovim, Clarabelle T. Pham, Orla Caffrey, Paul H. Hakendorf, Maria Crotty and Paddy A. Phillips

66. Published 25 August 2010
Barriers to comorbidity service delivery: the complexities of dual diagnosis and the need to agree on terminology and conceptual frameworks

Rachel Canaway and Monika Merkes

67. Published 25 March 2010
Experiences of nursing in older care facilities in New Zealand

Jenny Carryer, Chiquita O. Hansen and Judy A. Blakey

68. Published 25 May 2011
Truncated careers in nuclear medicine technology: increased job control may improve retention

Edwina J. Adams, Jennifer M. Cox, Barbara J. Adamson and Deborah J. Schofield

69. Published 25 November 2011
Consistent evaluation of treatment outcomes across subacute and community settings: experience of the Graduated Discharge Program

Svetlana Umansky, Anne E. Holland, Kerryn L. Woolley, Frances M. Wise and Peter C. Hunter

70. Published 24 February 2012
Stabilising the aged care workforce: an analysis of worker retention and intention

Anna L. Howe, Debra S. King, Julie M. Ellis, Yvonne D. Wells, Zhang Wei and Karen A. Teshuva

71. Published 25 March 2010
Why did they leave and what can they tell us? Allied health professionals leaving rural settings

Kevin O'Toole, Adrian Schoo and Andrea Hernan

72. Published 25 November 2011
Intern culture, internal resistance: uptake of peer review in two Australian hospital internship programs

Cathy Owen, Paul W. Mathews, Christine Phillips, Wayne Ramsey, Gerry Corrigan, Mark Bassett and Johannes Wenzel

73. Published 25 August 2011
Appropriate seating for medical patients: an audit

Suzanne S. Kuys, Urszula E. Dolecka and Carol A. Morrison

74. Published 25 May 2010
Medicare and chronic disease management: integrated care as an exceptional circumstance?

Michael J. Taylor and Hal Swerissen

75. Published 25 August 2011
Shared services arrangement in a decentralising healthcare environment – will it work?

Dinesh K. Arya

76. Published 25 May 2011
Development of a multi-source feedback tool for consultant anaesthetist performance

Craig L. F. Noonan, John Monagle and Damian Castanelli

77. Published 25 November 2011
Investing in big ideas: utilisation and cost of Medicare Allied Health services in Australia under the Chronic Disease Management initiative in primary care

Robyn P. Cant and Michele M. Foster

78. Published 25 August 2011
A tale of two cities: responses to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption and lessons for health disaster management

Isaac A. Seidl, Michael P. Daly, Andrew J. Johnson and Peter Aitken

79. Published 24 February 2012
Palliative care case conferencing involving general practice: an argument for a facilitated standard process

Graydon Davison and Tania M. Shelby-James

80. Published 25 March 2010
Clients' understanding of the role of nurse practitioners

Jane Allnutt, Nissa Allnutt, Rose McMaster, Jane O'Connell, Sandy Middleton, Sharon Hillege, Phillip R. Della, Glenn E. Gardner and Anne Gardner


      
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