Groundbreaking COVID-19 modelling software designed on the Gold Coast is playing a key role in the fight against the pandemic – and its creators hope it will also help win the war against future diseases.
Professor Chris Stapelberg, the Joint Chair in Mental Health for Gold Coast University Hospital and Bond University, began work on the Discrete-Event, Simulated Social Agent-Based Network Transmission (DESSABNeT) model in early April last year, as Australia was gripped with fears over COVID-19.
Nikles, J., Keijzers, G., Mitchell, G., Farrell, S.F., Perez, S., Schug, S., Ware, R.S., McLean, S.A., Connelly, L.B. and Sterling, M., 2021. Pregabalin versus placebo to prevent chronic pain after whiplash injury in at-risk individuals: results of a feasibility study for a large randomised controlled trial. Pain.
The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) has announced equal winners of the 2021 Trial of the Year - the five-year comparative study into collapsed lung conservative versus interventional treatment, and the ProPSMA prostate cancer study.
Harris, R., Dhanapathy, V., Sweeny, A., Pattullo, C. and Keijzers, G., 2021. Emergency Department opioid prescribing practices for patients with upper limb fractures. Tasman Medical Journal, 3(3), pp.102-109.
Foster, M., Egerton‐Warburton, D., Cullen, L., Fatovich, D.M. and Keijzers, G., 2021. Is a nudge all we need to promote deliberate clinical inertia and thoughtful clinical decision making?. Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Grant, S., Pellatt, R.A., Shirran, M., Sweeny, A.L., Perez, S.R., Khan, F. and Keijzers, G., 2021. Safety of rapid sequence intubation in an emergency training network. Emergency Medicine Australasia.
A Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship of almost $145,000 will help Dr Peter Snelling complete a research project which explores the benefits of point-of-care ultrasound for children with broken arms.
Evison, H., Sweeny, A., Ranse, J., Carrington, M., Marsh, N., Byrnes, J., Rickard, C., Carr, P. and Keijzers, G., 2020. Idle peripheral intravenous cannulation: An observational cohort study of pre-hospital and emergency department practices.
Rana, R., Gow, J., Moloney, C., King, A., Keijzers, G., Beccaria, G. and Mullens, A., 2020. Estimating the frequency and cost of emergency department presentations and hospitalisation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A retrospective analysis from regional Queensland. Emergency Medicine Australasia. https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13665
Etheridge, N., & Keijzers, G. Dec 2020. Cellulitis: Treatment failure or failure to define treatment failure? Emergency Medicine Australasia.
