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Alcohol-related presentations to the Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department: A prospective study by McLay, S., MacDonald, E., Fatovich, Daniel

“…Methods: A prospective observational study at Royal Perth Hospital of every patient attending ED for the 168-h period commencing 08.00 hours Monday 1 December 2014. …”
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The impact of personality and coping on the development of depressive symptoms in adult burns survivors by Andrews, R., Browne, Allyson, Drummond, P., Wood, F.

“…Participants were 70 adult burns survivors admitted to Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia between June 2007 and February 2008. …”
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An Australian hospital-based student training ward delivering safe, client-centered care while developing students' interprofessional practice capabilities by Brewer, Margo, Stewart-Wynne, Edward

“…Royal Perth Hospital, in partnership with Curtin University, established the first interprofessional student training ward in Australia, based on best practice from Europe. …”
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Patient perspectives on priorities for emergency medicine research: The PERSPEX study by McLay, S., McCutcheon, D., Arendts, Glenn, Macdonald, S., Fatovich, Daniel

“…Methods: A survey of current patients in the EDs of Royal Perth Hospital and Armadale Health Service. Patients gave their reason for presentation, suggested three important research priorities for emergency medicine and ranked their top 5 choices from a pre-specified list published by the ACEM researchers. …”
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Evaluation of a Streamlined Model of Care for Minor Burn Patients by Finlay, V., Hendrie, Delia, Allison, Garry, Phillips, M., Wood, Fiona, Edgar, D.

“…Minor burns at Royal Perth Hospital are provided routine outpatient clinic follow-up at 1 month postinjury resulting in increased ambulatory care demand and inefficiency due to high failure to attend rates. …”
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Comparisons of the outcome prediction performance of injury severity scoring tools using the abbreviated injury scale 90 update 98 (AIS 98) and 2005 update 2008 (AIS 2008) by Tohira, Hideo, Jacobs, I., Mountain, D., Gibson, N., Yeo, A.

“…We used all major trauma patients hospitalized to the Royal Perth Hospital between 1994 and 2008. We selected five AIS-based injury severity scoring tools, including Injury Severity Score (ISS), New Injury Severity Score (NISS), modified Anatomic Profile (mAP), Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) and A Severity Characterization of Trauma (ASCOT). …”
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Innovative Hands-On Approach for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Education of an Undergraduate Medical Radiation Science Course in Australia: A Feasibility Study by Ng, Curtise, Vos, Sjoerd, Moradi, Hamed, Fearns, Peter, Sun, Zhonghua, Dickson, Rebecca, Parizel, Paul M

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Predictors of patient satisfaction with pain management and improvement 3 months after burn injury by Andrews, R., Browne, Allyson, Wood, F., Schug, S.

“…Methods: Participants were 97 adult burn patients admitted to Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia between June 2007 and February 2009. …”
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Epidemiological, clinical, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility differences between PVL positive and PVL negative Staphylococcus aureus infections in Western Australia: A case con... by Boan, P., Tan, H., Pearson, J., Coombs, Geoffrey, Heath, C., Robinson, J.

“…Methods: From September 2007 to January 2009 at Royal Perth Hospital we tested for the PVL gene in S. aureus isolates from an invasive site, a suspected PVL-related soft tissue infection and all MRSA isolates. …”
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Enhancing the clinical utility of the Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief: Not just for major burns by Finlay, V., Phillips, M., Wood, F., Hendrie, Delia, Allison, Garry, Edgar, D.

“…Introduction: Like many other Western burn services, the proportion of major to minor burns managed at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) is in the order of 1:10. The Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) is an established measure of recovery after major burns, however its performance and validity in a population with a high volume of minor burns is uncertain. …”
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Innovative Telemonitoring Enhanced Care Programme for Chronic Heart Failure (ITEC-CHF) to improve guideline compliance and collaborative care: Protocol of a multicentre randomised... by Ding, H., Jayasena, R., Maiorana, Andrew, Dowling, A., Chen, Sheau Huey, Karunanithi, M., Layland, J., Edwards, I.

“…Ethics and dissemination The clinical trial has been approved by Peninsula Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC Reference: HREC/14/PH/27), Royal Perth Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (Reference: 15-081) and the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee (Reference: HR 181/2014). …”
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Increased EMRSA-15 health-care worker colonization demonstrated in retrospective review of EMRSA hospital outbreaks by Hart, J., Christiansen, Keryn, Lee, R., Heath, C., Coombs, Geoffrey, Robinson, James

“…Background:Health care worker (HCW) colonization with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a documented cause of hospital outbreaks and contributes to ongoing transmission. At Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) it had been anecdotally noted that the increasing prevalence of EMRSA-15 appeared to be associated with increased HCW colonization compared with Aus2/3-EMRSA. …”
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Exploring different models of stroke unit care and outcome : the Stroke Rehabilitation Outcome (SRO) study by Dennis, Diane

“…Further, it evaluated differences in the intensity of treatment and the environment in which rehabilitation was implemented.Method:All patients presenting to Royal Perth Hospital-Wellington Street Campus acute stroke unit (RPH-WSC ASU) with a diagnosis of recent stroke requiring hospitalisation and subacute rehabilitation were considered for inclusion into the study. …”
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The dimensions of efficiency and effectiveness of clinical directors in Western Australia's public teaching hospitals by Dedman, Graeme Lee

“…These pressures caused hospitals worldwide to closely examine the means by which they met the demands that were placed upon them (Royal Perth Hospital, 1994a; Asay and Maciariello, 1991). …”
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The characteristics of HIV patients who are long-term responders to nevirapine by Tenneti, Vijay Seshadri

“…Objective: To define Nevirapine long term responders (NLTRs) and identify the characteristics of patients who stay on the drug for long periods of time without adverse effects and maintain suppression of HIV replication without development of resistance.Methodology: Demographic and clinical data was collected for all the patients >18 years old from Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. All the patients included in the study received Nevirapine as part of their first regimen of anti-retroviral therapy. …”
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A comparison of long-term outcomes after meticillin-resistant and meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: an observational cohort study by Kin Yaw, L., Robinson, James, Ho Ming, K.

“…Methods: For this observational cohort study, we assessed data from the microbiology laboratory database at the Royal Perth Hospital (WA, Australia). Data were for all patients who had an episode of MRSA bacteraemia between July 1, 1997, and June 30, 2007, and, by use of a computer-generated randomisation sequence, a randomly selected subgroup of patients who had an episode of MSSA bacteraemia (patients with one or more set of blood cultures positive for S aureus). …”
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Lifestyle and demographic correlates of poor mental health in early adolescence by Robinson, M., Kendall, Garth, Jacoby, P., Hands, B., Beilin, L., Silburn, Sven, Zubrick, Stephen, Oddy, W.

“…Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 47: 54–61. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01891.xAuthor Information 1. 1 Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research and Schools of 2. 2 Psychology 3. 3 Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Royal Perth Hospital and Western Australian Institute for Medical Research 4. 4 School of Nursing and Midwifery 5. 5 Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Centre for Developmental Health, Curtin University of Technology, Perth 6. 6 University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia*Correspondence: Wendy H Oddy,*Correspondence: Associate Professor Wendy H Oddy, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, PO Box 855, West Perth, WA 6872 Australia. …”
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The investigation of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome elements and Ciprofloxacin resistance in community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains isolated in Weste... by Wilson, Lynne

“…Molecular studies not only give an understanding of how MRSA evolve but enable typing to be improved so that isolates can be better identified and improvements made to their control and prevention of spread.Forty-five prototypes of CA-MRSA lineages isolated in Western Australia (WA) between 2003 and 2006 were used in this study and were provided by the Australian Collaborating Centre for Enterococcus and Staphylococcus Species (ACCESS) Typing and Research Unit, situated at PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, which is also associated with Curtin University, School of Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Genetics Research Unit in a joint collaboration.The polymorphic region of the staphylococcal protein A (spa) gene is considered a useful typing tool for differentiation of MRSA. …”
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Coronary CT angiography : radiation dose measurements and image quality assessments by Sabarudin, Akmal

“…The SSCT component was performed in the Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia, while the DSCT component was conducted in the National heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. …”
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Calcium antagonists-induced lower urinary tract symptoms by Elhebir, Elsamaul Suliman A.

“…Further, it also suggested that LUTS associated with CA use is reversible in the majority of cases following medication discontinuation.A study was conducted, in Phase 2 of this research, to investigate the relationship between CA-use and LUTS amongst hospitalised medical patients at Royal Perth Hospital. The study also looked at the impact of CA-associated LUTS on patients‟ urological QoL. …”
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