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..The purpose of this article is to provide some evidence as to the efficacy of rurally relevant CME programs in retaining medical practitioners in rural and remote communities...

..interviews were undertaken with 123 CALD young people, 41 carers and 14 mental health service providers in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia...

..The stress/coping framework and findings have the potential to inform interventions designed to promote well-being in young carers...

..A campaign of public health might be useful within the university community to educate students about risk factors and healthy living...

..This cross-sectional study was conducted in rural and remote areas of Central Queensland. Using telephone interviews, the study described the use of formal and informal health services by families in ..

To describe the pattern of cancer among people living in rural and remote Indigenous communities in Queensland and to consider what implications the results have for cancer control.

..To assess the impact of introducing a publicly funded infant rotavirus vaccination program on disease notifications and on laboratory testing and results...

OBJECTIVE: To review factors associated with TB-related deaths in Queensland, Australia...

To investigate the incidence and epidemiology of non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (nmMRSA) infection in south-east Queensland, Australia.

..G2019S mutation in LRRK2. No alpha-synuclein or DJ-1 variants were observed. Our data suggest that approximately 7% of early-onset PD cases seen in Queensland movement disorders clinics have mutations involving known PARK genes.

..vulpecula may potentially act as a reservoir species for RR in urban areas. However, T. vulpecula infected with BF do not develop viremia sufficient to infect mosquitoes and are unlikely to be important hosts for BF...

..authors gathered qualitative and quantitative data from nurses who had resigned from rural and remote areas in Queensland, Australia...

..We reviewed the clinical management and outcome of these patients as they presented to public hospitals in Queensland. A retrospective clinical record audit was made at five public hospitals between 1991 and 2000...

..CONCLUSIONS: Although dogs and cats are exposed naturally to these viruses, and can become infected, they are unlikely to be important urban reservoirs of either virus...

..To identify factors which contribute to upper limb recovery, from the perspective of stroke survivors...

To describe an outbreak of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Far North Queensland in 2002.

This paper reports the findings of a survey undertaken in Queensland, Australia in October 2001...

..aegypti (L.) eggs was examined in Townsville, northern Queensland, Australia...

..IR3535 (ethyl butylacetylaminopropionate) and deet (N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) against mosquitoes in Queensland, Australia, were conducted. Two repellents were compared: Avon Bug Guard, containing 7...

..The role of these antioxidants in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus remains unclear...

A survey of dental caries experience in children was undertaken in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Northern Peninsula Area of Queensland prior to the introduction of water fluoridation.

..The aim of this study was to compare the utilization of non selective NSAID, COX-2 inhibitors and paracetamol between Queensland and Australia.

..This species of freshwater fish is found in the rivers and streams of the northeastern highlands of Queensland, Australia...

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The determinants of Queensland's rising caesarean section (CS) rate remain poorly understood because of the historical absence of standard classification methods.

A graded public health response was implemented to control the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak in Queensland. Public health measures to contain the outbreak included border control, enhanced surveillance, management of cases and contacts ..

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was compared between urban breast cancer survivors (BCS) and the general female population in urban Queensland, and correlates were identified.

The objectives of this study were to explore temporal changes in birth measures in Queensland, Australia, and examine whether secular trends are similar to those in other countries...

..This represented the potential to import dengue virus into north Queensland, a dengue receptive area of Australia...

..We ascertained all new cases of invasive cutaneous melanoma in the west of Scotland and Queensland 1982-2001...

The spatiotemporal variations of Barmah Forest virus (BFv) infections were assessed in Queensland, Australia, between 1993 and 2001 utilizing a Geographic Information System...

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections are emerging in southeast Queensland, Australia, but the incidence of carriage of CA-MRSA strains is unknown...

To evaluate the clinical signs, results of clinical pathology and serology tests, and treatment outcome of clinical leptospirosis in 40 dogs from North Queensland.

..We analysed site-specific melanoma incidence during the period 1982-2001 in Queensland, Australia (n=28 862 invasive melanomas; 2536 lentigo maligna melanomas) and the west of Scotland (n=4278 ..

..Registry data may underestimate the scale of the problem. OBJECTIVES: A single-observer study of a Queensland renal transplant population was conducted between July 1999 and April 2000 utilizing both cross-sectional and ..

To survey the current practice of general surgeons in Queensland in their management of patients with gallstones.

..North Queensland has an environment, which predisposes to several such infections...

To assess how much of the urban-rural disparity in melanoma survival in Queensland is due to later diagnosis.

..Given the importance of this topic, we considered it necessary to investigate the distribution and cause of PEI among Queensland dentists.

..the changes over time in the volume of prescriptions of COX-2 selective inhibitors between rural and urban Queensland to reveal any difference in the uptake of the prescribing of these new drugs between two geographically distinct ..

We explored the prevalence of faecal incontinence (FI) in a referral hospital outpatient population, to explore suspicions that FI is inadequately studied, underestimated and poorly appreciated in the rural North Queensland (NQ) community.

..CONCLUSIONS: Comparisons were made with available data on colorectal cancer in the general Australian population. The limitations and deficiencies of the study, as well as problems of data collection on Indigenous people were discussed...

..and environmental sources of variation in performance on a standardised test of academic achievement, the Queensland Core Skills Test (QCST) (Queensland Studies Authority, 2003a)...

To describe trends in the annual prevalence of hospitalisation in remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, 1997/98 to 2004/05.

..and dispersal within a brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) colony at Hurdle Creek Valley, Queensland. Brush-tailed rock-wallabies were once abundant and widespread throughout the rocky terrain of southeastern ..

To describe the demographics of patients presenting with skin cancer to general practitioners in rural North Queensland, the sites from which skin cancers are removed, and their histology.

..The aim of this study was to characterize clinical and microbiological features of isolates obtained from invasive GAS infections in North Queensland, Australia between 1996 and 2001.

..To estimate prevalences of rheumatic diseases in Aboriginal Australians...

A virtual outpatient service has been established in Queensland for the delivery of post-acute burns care to children living in rural and remote areas of the state...

This report describes a small outbreak of measles that occurred in the Whitsunday region, north Queensland, in July to August 2002...

..Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System has confirmed that its incidence is often greatest in the state of Queensland, where there is a clear seasonal pattern as well as interannual variability...

..To determine general practitioners' (GPs') attitudes towards and involvement in general practice research...

..weekly in a focus of dengue activity in Cairns, Queensland, Australia...

..We aimed to quantify the excess of deaths with a renal causal assignment among Indigenous people aged 25 years and over in Queensland, Australia, 1997-2000 and their distribution by remoteness.

To investigate the extent of participation in cervical cancer screening among women who live in discrete rural and remote Indigenous communities in Queensland.

..Dental erosion manifests as cupped lesions on cusp apices and in fissures of teeth in patients from southeast Queensland referred with excessive tooth wear...

..We describe one aspect of Queensland's post-Bundaberg clinical governance arrangements: the use of variable life-adjusted displays (VLADs) to monitor ..

..Although musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) represent one of the most important occupational health issues in contemporary society, few studies have specifically investigated this problem among veterinarians...

Faced with limited water supply options in the longer term and the worst drought on record in the short term, the Queensland Government is constructing the Western Corridor Recycled Water Project which will supply up to 182 ML/day of ..

..indication of the support needs of postdiagnosis women with breast cancer in remote and isolated areas in Queensland. This discussion will present data that focuses on the women's expressed personal concerns...

..These findings support the eminent need for hospital organizations to take a more person-centered approach when dealing with workplace stress...

..We endeavoured to assess its performance when administered in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities...

..study that examined the factors influencing the decisions of rural and remote area nurses, formerly employed by Queensland Health, to leave or to remain in this area of nursing...

..between occupational therapists and Aboriginal health workers in rural and remote communities of North Queensland. The study identifies ways in which professional partnerships improve client services and enhance occupational ..

..The SBYHNP provides nurses with a new, challenging, autonomous role within the school environment and the opportunity to expand their role to incorporate all aspects of the health-promoting schools' framework...

..The findings emphasise the need for support for families coping with childhood AML...

..866 females, 217 males, 14 did not indicate gender) in a regional Health Service District who completed the Queensland Public Agency Staff Survey in 2002...

..These could then be compared with existing datasets for local consultations in mainstream general practice and from a geographically distant ACCHS...

..These results have implications for future changes of antibiotic policies for the treatment of skin infections in this population...

..Nursing insights on the experience of using standardized questionnaires during hospice care...

..Cross-sectional data were obtained from 6704 Queensland children aged 5-12 years and 6814 South Australian children aged 5-15 years...

..To compare patterns of epilepsy in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people presenting to hospital...

To quantify Indigenous mortality, compare it with non-Indigenous mortality, and identify causes of excess Indigenous mortality by remoteness in Queensland, 1997-2000.

..The overall aim is to describe how individual levels and combinations of temperament (mildly heritable) and character (influenced by sociocultural learning) traits allow GPs to flourish or fail in rural medicine...

..To gain some understanding of the attitudes and behaviours of Indigenous young people in Townsville concerning relationships, contraception and safe sex...

..of the association between lifetime and age-specific cumulative ultraviolet exposure and cutaneous melanoma in Queensland, Australia, an area of high solar radiation, and examine the association separately for families at high, ..

..As there are no previous studies in this area of nursing it is anticipated that this study will provide the basis for further exploration...

..The population consisted of all final year Bachelor of Nursing students at Queensland University of Technology, who undertook their clinical placement in either a rural or metropolitan location...

..While early research on the topic highlighted significant differences in staff and patient perceptions, there are few recent data to indicate if these differences still exist...

..The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of work environments by analysing the perceptions of a sample of Registered Nurses (RNs)...

..To assess understanding of, and actual and potential roles in management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among GPs...

..Little is known about the way registered nurses understand this informal role...

..Consequently, distress, detachment and disengagement occurred and students' capacity and motivation for learning was negatively impacted...

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..theory underpinned this exploratory study set in a large metropolitan teaching hospital in South East Queensland. Participants were five RNs who had been Buddies to undergraduate nursing student(s) in the previous 12 months...

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..The shift to a service model driven by outcomes and case-mix data will take time and resources to achieve. Implications for nursing staff are discussed...

In 2001, a study into issues of concern to assistant-in-nursing, registered and enrolled nurse members of the Queensland Nurses Union was undertaken...

..semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 24 students from one university in Queensland, Australia...

..cardiac rehabilitation was undertaken with 47 Indigenous cardiac patients and 41 health professionals in remote Queensland. RESULTS: Only three patients were fully engaged in the program...

..CONCLUSION: The differential distribution of environmental risk factors by SES of household may help explain the SES differential in the burden of injury and provides opportunities for focusing efforts to address the problem...

..To determine whether maternal attitude towards the family regularly eating together and maternal report of how often the family eat together are associated with adolescent offspring overweight...

..Overall, the results provide support for an extended version of the TPB incorporating self-identity and those social influences linked explicitly to membership of a behaviorally relevant reference group...

..Further research is required to objectively measure direct student outcomes and to determine the impact of team dynamics...

..study consists of external validation of approximately 50 polymorphisms using data from ongoing studies at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia, and the University of Cambridge, UK...

..sibirica) occurring in vast regions of the USSR, China, and Mongolia, Queensland tick typhus (R. australis), Israel tick typhus (unnamed Rickettsia sp...

..Incidence rates in Queensland are almost five times those in the United States...

..Incidence rates in Queensland are almost five times those in the United States...

..size, with the recruitment of new participant groups in Utah, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and Queensland. This application for competitive renewal of the R01 will utilize the support of the members of GenoMEL and the ..

..size, with the recruitment of new participant groups in Utah, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and Queensland. This application for competitive renewal of the R01 will utilize the support of the members of GenoMEL and the ..

..size, with the recruitment of new participant groups in Utah, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and Queensland. This application for competitive renewal of the R01 will utilize the support of the members of GenoMEL and the ..

..Human Carcinogenesis, Bethesda, USA), Dr David Lane (University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland), Dr Martin Lavin (Queensland Institute Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia), Dr Arnold Levine, (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, ..

..Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter & Related Organisms (CHRO) from September 4-8, 2005 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia...

..The montane cloud forest in Monteverde, Costa Rica, the tropical rain forests in North Queensland, Australia and the tropical forest on Abaco Island, The Bahamas, contain extremely biodiverse populations of ..

..The Australian state of Queensland has the highest incidence of melanoma in the world with lifetime incidences of 1 in 13 males and 1 in 16 females...

..longitudinal cohort of 915 children born between 1981 and 1984 at the Mater Misericordiae Mother's Hospital in Queensland, Australia...

..testing of the MLH1, MSH2, and MSH6\par proteins, and MMR mutation testing guided by the IHC results, and to the Queensland Institute of Medical\par Research for testing for somatic mutations in BRAF...

..the expertise of members of the Clinical Sciences Unit of QIMR in iron metabolism with that of x-ray crystallography and structure-based drug design studies at the Centre for Drug Design and Development in the University of Queensland.

..Bioiron 2001 will be held in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, from August 18 to 23, 2001. The Bioiron 2003 conference will be held in Washington, D.C...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..C.R. Cloninger), U. Iowa (R. Crowe), U. Colorado (R. Freedman), U. Pennsylvania (D. Levinson), U. Queensland (B. Mowry), and Mt. Sinai (J. Silverman)...

..this work has been facilitated by a strong international collaboration with investigators from the University of Queensland, Australia...