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| R L ManserSummaryAffiliation: Royal Melbourne Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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Screening for lung cancer: a reviewRenee Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Curr Opin Pulm Med 10:266-71. 2004..The literature regarding screening with biomarkers and CT continues to expand rapidly...
Impact of different criteria for defining hypopneas in the apnea-hypopnea indexR L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria
Chest 120:909-14. 2001....
Validity of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) utility instrument in patients with operable and inoperable lung cancerRenee L Manser
Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Vincent s Hospital, Melbourne, Fitzroy, 3065 VIC, Australia
Lung Cancer 53:217-29. 2006..Further studies using other MAU instruments may determine whether alternative instruments are more sensitive to different health states in individuals with lung cancer...
Cost-effectiveness analysis of screening for lung cancer with low dose spiral CT (computed tomography) in the Australian settingRenee Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Ground Floor Charles Connibere Building, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan Street, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia
Lung Cancer 48:171-85. 2005..Low dose spiral computed tomography (CT) is a sensitive screening tool for lung cancer that is currently being evaluated in both non-randomised studies and randomised controlled trials...
Incidental lung cancers identified at coronial autopsy: implications for overdiagnosis of lung cancer by screeningRenee L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Ground Floor Charles Connibere Building, Grattan Street, Parkville 3050, Victoria, Australia
Respir Med 99:501-7. 2005..Overdiagnosis refers to the detection by screening of cancers that would not have become clinically apparent or symptomatic before that individual died of other causes...
Overview of observational studies of low-dose helical computed tomography screening for lung cancerRenee L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Respirology 10:97-104. 2005..For the present article, the available observational studies of low-dose helical CT screening for lung cancer were reviewed...
Screening for lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trialsR L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Ground Floor, Charles Connibere Building, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Grattan Street, Parkville 3050, Victoria, Australia
Thorax 58:784-9. 2003..Lung cancer is a substantial public health problem in western countries. Previous studies have examined different screening strategies for lung cancer but there have been no published systematic reviews...
The Victorian CPAP program: is there a need for additional education and support?R L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Intern Med J 32:526-32. 2002..The Victorian Continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) Program provides CPAP services to financially disadvantaged individuals with moderate to severe sleep apnoea...
Measurement variability in sleep disorders medicine: the Victorian experienceR L Manser
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Service Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Intern Med J 32:386-93. 2002..Surveys of laboratories in North America have documented significant diversity in the working definitions used for reporting respiratory events in sleep studies...
Surgery for non-small cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trialsG Wright
Cardiothoracic Care Centre, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Thorax 61:597-603. 2006..However, current evidence suggests that complete mediastinal lymph node dissection is associated with improved survival compared with node sampling in patients with stage I-IIIA NSCLC undergoing resection...
Radial probe endobronchial ultrasound for the diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysisD P Steinfort
Dept Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Eur Respir J 37:902-10. 2011..Further methodologically rigorous studies on well-defined patient populations are required to evaluate the generalisability of our results...
