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New ICD-10 version of the Charlson comorbidity index predicted in-hospital mortalityVijaya Sundararajan
Victorian Department of Human Services, Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000 Victoria, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 57:1288-94. 2004..With the transition into ICD-10 coding worldwide, an ICD-10 version of the Deyo adaptation was developed and validated using population-based hospital data from Victoria, Australia...- A six-year descriptive analysis of hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among people born in refugee-source countriesIgnacio Correa-Velez
Refugee Health Research Centre, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
Popul Health Metr 5:9. 2007.... - Are Australian immigrants at a risk of being physically inactive?Jayantha Dassanayake
Center for Molecular, Environment, Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:53. 2011..We examined whether physical activity risk differed between migrant sub-groups and the Australian-born population... - Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortiumCarolyn De Coster
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 6:77. 2006..This paper presents a list of high-priority methodological areas for researchers using health administrative data... - Attendance rates and outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation in Victoria, 1998Vijaya Sundararajan
Department of Human Services, L18 120 Spencer St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Med J Aust 180:268-71. 2004..To describe the patterns of use of cardiac rehabilitation in Victoria and to assess whether the survival benefits predicted in clinical trials have been realised in the community... - Effects of increased private health insurance on hospital utilisation in VictoriaVijaya Sundararajan
Health Service and Evaluation Section, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Vic
Aust Health Rev 28:320-9. 2004.... - Cross-national comparative performance of three versions of the ICD-10 Charlson indexVijaya Sundararajan
Victorian Department of Human Servicest, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Med Care 45:1210-5. 2007..This study was conducted to compare the predictive performance of these versions (the Halfon, Sundararajan, and Quan versions) of the ICD-10 coding algorithms using data from 4 countries... - Hospital utilisation among people born in refugee-source countries: an analysis of hospital admissions, Victoria, 1998-2004Ignacio Correa-Velez
Refugee Health Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 186:577-80. 2007..To investigate whether hospital utilisation and health outcomes in Victoria differ between people born in refugee-source countries and those born in Australia... - Quality of diagnosis and procedure coding in ICD-10 administrative dataToni Henderson
Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Australia
Med Care 44:1011-9. 2006..When consideration is given to the nature of the analysis, administrative data can provide highly reliable population-based estimates of hospitalization rates... - Review article: leaving the emergency department without being seenMarcus Kennedy
Adult Retrieval Victoria, Metropolitan Ambulance Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Emerg Med Australas 20:306-13. 2008..They should compare outcomes for groups of LWBS patients with those who wait and should include cross-sectoral data mapping to truly detect re-attendance and admission rates... - Validation of de-identified record linkage to ascertain hospital admissions in a cohort studyAlison Beauchamp
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 11:42. 2011..We sought to develop and validate a method for linking a cohort study to a state-wide hospital admissions dataset with limited availability of unique identifying variables... - Congestive cardiac failure: urban and rural perspectives in VictoriaMohammad Z Ansari
Health Surveillance and Evaluation Section, Department of Human Services, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 11:266-70. 2003..Detailed analyses identify trends in hospitalisations, urban/rural differentials and variations by the Primary Care Partnerships (PCP)... - Prevalence and cost of musculoskeletal disorders: a population-based, public hospital system healthcare consumption approachRichard H Osborne
Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Clinical Epidemiology and Health Evaluation Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Rheumatol 34:2466-75. 2007..To use a population-level, public-hospital approach to compare the prevalence and cost of musculoskeletal diseases (MSD) with other clinical specialties... - Ethnic and cultural determinants influence risk assessment for hepatitis C acquisitionAnouk Dev
Monash University Department of Medicine and Department of Gastroenterology, Monash Medical Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 19:792-8. 2004..Accurate risk factor assessment is essential for education targeted at risk reduction in culturally diverse populations... - Epidemiology of sepsis in Victoria, AustraliaVijaya Sundararajan
Victorian Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Crit Care Med 33:71-80. 2005..This suggests that lessons learned in this area may be directly applicable internationally... - The AusPSIs: the Australian version of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicatorsSteven McConchie
Clinical Information and Knowledge Management Unit, Victorian Government Department of human Services, Melbourne, Vic
Aust Health Rev 33:334-41. 2009..After this phase, which was faithful to AHRQ's case definitions, the indicators were refined for use with the condition onset flag, resulting in the AusPSIs... - Predictors of readmission after elective coronary artery bypass graft surgeryRon Slamowicz
General Surgery, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Aust Health Rev 32:677-83. 2008..We sought to examine potential predictors of readmission after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery... - Data linkage: a powerful research tool with potential problemsMegan A Bohensky
Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 10:346. 2010..In this study, we synthesize the evidence identifying participant or population characteristics that can influence the validity and completeness of data linkage and may be associated with systematic bias in reported outcomes... - Are immigrants at risk of heart disease in Australia? A systematic reviewJayantha Dassanayake
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
Aust Health Rev 33:479-91. 2009..Higher alcohol consumption was found among immigrants from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Smoking and physical inactivity were highly prevalent among most immigrants... - Southeast Asian patients with chronic hepatitis C: the impact of novel genotypes and race on treatment outcomeAnouk T Dev
Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Hepatology 36:1259-65. 2002..This study also supports the concept that race and ethnicity are important determinants of treatment outcome in HCV infected patients... - Use of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy for rectal cancer among the elderly: a population-based studyAlfred I Neugut
Department of Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:2643-50. 2002..We investigated the use of these treatments for stages II and III rectal cancer among the elderly and the effectiveness of these treatments on a population-based scale... - The effect of increased private health insurance coverage on Victorian public hospitalsNeil Powers
Victorian Department of Human Services
Aust Health Rev 26:6-10. 2003..Moreover, it appears that the increased caseload assumed by Victorian private hospitals since the reforms took effect mainly reflects an increase in low cost same day episodes... - Variations in the use of chemotherapy for elderly patients with advanced ovarian cancer: a population-based studyVijaya Sundararajan
Department of Epidemiology, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York University, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:173-8. 2002..Further research is needed to elucidate to what degree this represents appropriate clinical judgment and to what degree other factors, such as patient choice, play a role... - Reattendance at hospital for asthma in two Australian states, 2000-2003Patricia K Correll
Australian Centre for Asthma Monitoring, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Respirology 12:220-6. 2007..Linked hospital and ED data from New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, were used to examine reattendances for asthma... - Effect of an on-site emergency physician in a rural emergency department at nightKirsten J Donald
The Emergency Department, Tamworth Base Hospital, Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
Rural Remote Health 5:380. 2005.... - Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative dataHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Med Care 43:1130-9. 2005..Recognizing this, we conducted a multistep process to develop ICD-10 coding algorithms to define Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidities in administrative data and assess the performance of the resulting algorithms... - Survival associated with 5-fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy among elderly patients with node-positive colon cancerVijaya Sundararajan
Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Ann Intern Med 136:349-57. 2002..More frequent use of 5-FU therapy in older patients would probably reduce death from colon cancer... - Effectiveness of platinum-based chemotherapy among elderly patients with advanced ovarian cancerDawn Hershman
Department of Medicine and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 161 Fort Washington, New York, NY 10032, USA
Gynecol Oncol 94:540-9. 2004..We previously showed that only about half of women over the age of 65 years with this disease received platinum-based chemotherapy, and that the likelihood of receiving it decreases with age... - Patterns and outcomes of chemotherapy for elderly patients with stage II ovarian cancer: a population-based studyDawn Hershman
The Department of Medicine and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Gynecol Oncol 92:293-9. 2004..The purpose of this study was to assess the patterns of use of chemotherapy in women with stage II ovarian cancer, and to compare the survival of treated and untreated patients aged 65+ years in a population-based sample... - A comparison of data sources for the surveillance of seasonal and pandemic influenza in VictoriaHazel J Clothier
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Parkville, Victoria
Commun Dis Intell 30:345-9. 2006..Other surveillance systems would be needed for early pandemic case or cluster detection, while pandemic monitoring would be better achieved by a more automated system... - Assessing validity of ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data in recording clinical conditions in a unique dually coded databaseHude Quan
Department of Community Health Sciences and Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB T2N4N1, Canada
Health Serv Res 43:1424-41. 2008.... - Coordinated anticoagulation management in a rural settingKathleen Hodge
Wimmera Health Care Group, Horsham, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 37:280-3. 2008..This article presents findings on the assessment of a Victorian rural program using a modified anticoagulation clinic and other strategies to improve anticoagulation management... - Evaluation of a prison-based hepatitis B immunisation pilot projectAlexandra Devine
Victorian Public Health Training Scheme
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:127-30. 2007..Lessons learnt from the pilot led to the revision of key prison hepatitis B immunisation policies and practices to ensure uniformity across Victorian prisons... - Evidence for the effectiveness of a chlamydia awareness campaign: increased population rates of chlamydia testing and detectionMarcus Y Chen
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Int J STD AIDS 18:239-43. 2007..Testing within the framework of a national chlamydia screening programme may be a more cost-effective way of increasing chlamydia testing... - Postoperative cognitive decline: association with preoperative tumor necrosis factor-alpha levelsKumar Visvanathan
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1673-4. 2003