Collaborative Group (United States)

Co-creating culturally safe primary care for whānau Māori with cancer: a qualitative case study of systems change in general practice

INTRODUCTION: Māori experience later cancer diagnosis and poorer cancer outcomes than non-Māori. Although consultation-level cultural safety frameworks exist, less is known about embedding cultural safety across general practice to improve outcomes, guided by whānau (family) voic...

Five years of psychosocial research in audiology: trends, impact, and guidance

Hearing loss affects more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, a figure projected to approach 2.5 billion by 2050, with some 430 million already requiring rehabilitative care (World Health Organizati...

Safety as a precondition for participation: rethinking physical activity for transgender people in primary care contexts

Background Transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand experience inequitable health outcomes. Although physical activity supports wellbeing, participation is often limited by safety concerns and a lack of affirming environments. Primary care providers recognise low engagement but...

Smoking, Exhaled Carbon Monoxide, and Risk of Parkinson Disease

Importance Smoking has been associated with lower risks of Parkinson disease (PD) in epidemiological studies, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly elucidated. Objective To investigate the association of exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) with risk of PD. Design, Setting, and Par...

From policy debate to empirical evidence: a proof-of-concept bibliometric and LLM-assisted abstract-level content analysis of OTC hearing aid research before and after FDA regulation

Objective To characterise temporal patterns in over-the-counter (OTC) hearing-aid research before and after U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implementation of the OTC category (effective October 2022), using bibliometrics and large language model (LLM)–assisted abstract-le...

With intention, moving safely: Relational decision-making at the heart of evaluation bricolage

This article discusses how evaluation bricolage, when foregrounded by relationality and informed by multicultural validity, offers potential for transparent decision-making within evaluative bricolage. The authors intentionally explore the risks and the opportunities that lie wit...