Aim This study aimed to determine current knowledge and attitudes towards evidence-based practice (EBP) among pre- and post-registration nurses in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Background Educational and clinical ...

Aim: To explore Australian general practitioners¿ views on extending prescribing rights to pharmacists, the appropriateness of pharmacist prescribing models, and the influence of general practitioners¿ characteristics on ...

The growing global burden of heart failure (HF) necessitates the investigation of alternative methods of providing co-ordinated, integrated and client-focused primary care. Currently, the models of nurse-coordinated care ...

People with advanced cancer who may benefit from specialised palliative care (SPC) do not necessarily access such services. To obtain a deeper understanding of issues affecting access to SPC, five focus groups were undertaken ...

The academic study of sport history in Australia is a relatively recent initiative, dating back to the 1970s. It was inspired by a handful of enterprising scholars, each of whom is now retired. The following paper has two ...

Objective: to describe the baby-feeding decisions of a group of Australian women prior to birth. Design, setting and participants: a qualitative study using face-to-face in depth interviews was undertaken with 29 women. ...

Introduction: The importance of the nursing role in chronic heart failure (CHF) management is increasingly recognised. With the recent release of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) report in ...

Summary: This paper is concerned with the use of published literary autobiographies that contain first-hand accounts of illness narratives, to explore their usefulness as a form of qualitative data to generate knowledge ...

This paper presents an efficient and innovative method for the automated counting of cells in microscopic image. The performance of watershed-based algorithms for the segmentation of clustered cells has been well demonstrated. ...

Abstract Objective: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and risk factors for CHD are associated with social and cultural attribution as well as individual psychological factors. ...