Hunter New England Local Health District

Bridging the divide: addressing gaps in Australian health library services

Access to evidence-based information is vital for safe, effective health care, yet Australia's health library services are increasingly fragmented and inequitable. This perspective highlights the critical role of clinical libraries and professional librarians, revealing gaps acro...

Patient-reported gestational weight gain care provided by general practitioners: a cross-sectional study

Australian clinical practice guidelines recommend all pregnant people receive routine antenatal care for gestational weight gain (GWG). All antenatal care providers (ACP) including general practitioners (GP) are recommended to assess weight and provide advice on recommended GWG,...

Strategies for integrating artificial intelligence and cognitive assessment to predict disability progression in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: A model development study

Serial cognitive assessment in multiple sclerosis can help identify patients at higher risk of disability progression, but high dimensionality of reaction-time data makes analysis challenging. We developed a method to convert longitudinal reaction-time data into images and applie...

Trauma-informed care in Australian inpatient eating disorder guidelines: a systematic review and thematic analysis

Abstract Background There are high rates of trauma among those with eating disorders, which affects both eating disorder severity and treatment outcomes. Inpatient treatment also has the potential to be a source of initial trauma (treatment-related trauma) or to re-traumatise pat...

Prevalence of Healthy Eating Initiatives in Australian Primary Schools: A Cross‐Sectional Survey

ABSTRACT Issue Addressed Schools are recommended settings for promoting healthy eating, but to achieve population‐level impact, initiatives must be widely implemented. Limited data are available to assess the implementation of Australian school‐based healthy eating initiatives. T...

Clearance of Treponema pallidum from oral and anal sites after treatment of secondary syphilis: results from a multi-centre, prospective, cross-sectional study

Background Syphilis is increasing worldwide, and secondary syphilis may represent its most infectious stage. Scarce data exist on Treponema pallidum clearance after treatment. We aimed to determine the frequency and load of T. pallidum mucosal shedding, and time to clearance foll...