Huang, Y.L., McGonagle, M., Shaw, R., Eastham, J., Alsaba, N. and Crilly, J., Dec 2020. Models of care for frail older persons who present to the emergency department: a scoping review protocol. Systematic reviews, 9(1), pp.1-6.
Johnston, A., Byrne, J., Bost, N., Aitken, M., Wadham, J., Timms, J., Crilly, J., Sept 2020. Longitudinal description and evaluation of an ED avoidance strategy for a youth mass gathering (Schoolies) in Australia. Emergency Medicine Australasia.
Wardrop, R., Crilly, J., Ranse, J., & Chaboyer, W. Nov, 2020. Vulnerability: A concept synthesis and its application to the emergency department (ED). International Emergency Nursing, 54, 100936.
A/Prof Ed Heffernan, A/Prof David Green OAM, Dr Cathy Lincoln, A/Prof Josh Byrnes, Sen Sgt Paul Gardiner, Prof Stuart Kinner, Dr Caitlin Brandenburg, Prof Stuart Thomas, Dr Annabel Somerville and A/Prof Peter Davidson
In the acute phase of police detention, health concerns can emerge for detainees, especially around drug dependence, mental health conditions, and physical injury. In addition are system complexities including crowding.
In the event of an infectious disease outbreak (such as COVID-19), crowded conditions amongst a population with greater underlying burden of disease than the general population creates significant public health and economic concern. Furthermore, access to resources and expertise to manage health concerns in this environment can be challenging, especially in rural areas.
Researchers will interview key stakeholders involved with the care delivery and decision making of detainees, to identify innovative strategies to delivering healthcare in watch-house settings. This research will consider the decision making processes and costs associated with the delivery of healthcare in police watch-houses that may reduce the need for transfer to hospital emergency departments or reduce the potential for deaths in custody.
This research addresses the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommendation to understand how evidence-based health services can be provided for those requiring treatment, care and illness prevention whilst in police custody. It also identifies ways in which the need for expensive hospital stays can be minimised.
The expected impact of this research is the capability to identify and inform joined-up approaches so that cost-effective, safe, quality emergency care can be provided to detainees in police watch-house settings.
Elder, E.G., Johnston, A., Wallis, M. and Crilly, J., 2020. Work-based strategies/interventions to ameliorate stressors and foster coping for clinical staff working in emergency departments: a scoping review of the literature. Australasian Emergency Care.
Greenslade, J.H., Ho, A., Hawkins, T., Parsonage, W., Crilly, J. and Cullen, L., 2020. Examining the translational success of an initiative to accelerate the assessment of chest pain for patients in an Australian emergency department: a pre-post study. BMC health services research, 20, pp.1-9.
Crilly, J., Ranse, J., Bost, N., Donnelly, T., Timms, J., Gilmour, K., Aitken, M. and Johnston, A., 2020. Emergency healthcare delivery for young adults during a planned mass gathering: A retrospective observational study. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 32(2), pp.250-257.
Marsden, E.J., Taylor, A., Wallis, M., Craswell, A., Broadbent, M., Johnston-Devin, C. and Crilly, J., 2020. A structure and process evaluation of the Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention model. Australasian Emergency Care.
Elder, E., Johnston, A.N., Byrne, J.H., Wallis, M. and Crilly, J., 2020. Core components of a staff wellness strategy in emergency departments: A clinician‐informed nominal group study. Emergency Medicine Australasia.
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 were awarded $65,504 from EMF for a State-wide review of the impact of COVID and social distancing on presentations for stroke, respiratory conditions, mental health, sepsis, cardiovascular conditions, and trauma. This is a collaborative project with a State-wide and local component, working with experts in the public and private sector, and a variety of clinicians with expertise in each condition,
