Emergency Department Collaborative Research Group
We are the overarching group for research conducted in the Emergency Department. Our vision is to embed research in clinical practice and education and inform new guidelines and policy.
In 2020, our group published more than 68 articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to more than 60 research projects, and were part of successful grant submissions totalling more than $6.38…
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Latest Emergency Department Research News
Gold Coast Health will host the first ever Emergency Care Research Symposium, continuing to harness innovation to drive the best possible care for…
Violence and threatening behaviour occur regularly in our Emergency Departments with as many as 10 Code Black activations per day, which are often…
Gold Coast Health and Griffith University research fellow Dr Jamie Ranse has been recognised by the prestigious Sigma Theta Tau International…
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Current projects
Fractures through the neck of the 5th metacarpal (little finger hand bone) are known as Boxer’s Fractures, as they often occur during a punch.…
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Prof Julia Crilly, Prof Gerben Keijzers, A/Prof David Green, Dr Ya-ling Huang and Amy Sweeny are amongst the ED research team investigators who…
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Sepsis accounts for more than 1 million annual childhood deaths globally. In Australia, more than 50 children die each year from this disease, and…
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Publications
Deliberate clinical inertia: Using meta-cognition to improve decision-making
Keijzers, G., Fatovich, D. M., Egerton‐Warburton, D., Cullen, L., Scott, I. A., Glasziou, P., & Croskerry, P. (2018). Emergency Medicine Australasia, 30(4), 585-590.
Renal Trauma Trends: A Gold Coast trauma centre experience
Mansbridge, M. M., Ryan, J., Hill, D. C., & Wullschleger, M. (2019). ANZ journal of surgery.
DOI: 10.1111/ans.15026
Dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorder and injury in adults recently released from prison: a prospective cohort study
Young, J.T., Heffernan, E., Borschmann, R., Ogloff, J.R., Spittal, M.J., Kouyoumdjian, F.G., Preen, D.B., Butler, A., Brophy, L., Crilly, J. and Kinner, S.A., 2018. Dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorder and injury in adults recently released from prison: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Public Health, 3(5), pp.e237-e248.
