Search Results - "Victoria, Australia"
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Trends in sickness certification of injured workers by general practitioners in Victoria, Australia
Published 2014“…Aim: To determine if GPs' sickness certification behaviour has changed between 2003 and 2010 in Victoria, Australia. Method: Retrospective population-based cohort study of all injured workers with an accepted compensation claim. …”
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Factors associated with sickness certification of injured workers by General Practitioners in Victoria, Australia
Published 2016“…The aim of this study was to establish what factors potentially are associated with the type of sickness certification that General Practitioners (GPs) provide to injured workers following work-related injury in Victoria, Australia. METHODS: This was a retrospective population-based cohort study was conducted for compensation claims lodged by adults from 2003 to 2010. …”
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Enrichment and exposure assessment of As, Cr and Pb of the soils in the vicinity of Stawell, Victoria, Australia
Published 2010“…Stawell Gold Mine in NW Victoria, Australia, mines ores that contain large concentrations of As and significant quantities of the metals Pb and Cr. …”
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Paramedic exposure to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is rare and declining in Victoria, Australia
Published 2015“…We aimed to describe the annual exposure rates of paramedics in the state of Victoria, Australia. Methodology: We linked data from the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry (VACAR) and Ambulance Victoria's employment dataset for 2003-2012. …”
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Acquisition of HIV by African-born residents of Victoria, Australia : insights from molecular epidemiology
Published 2013“…We compared exposure location and route for African-born people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Victoria, Australia, with HIV-1 pol subtype from drug resistance assays and geographical origin suggested by phylogenetic analysis of env gene. …”
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Regions of High Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Low Bystander CPR Rates in Victoria, Australia
Published 2015“…The aim of this study is to identify census areas with high incidence of OHCA and low rates of bystander CPR in Victoria, Australia. METHODS: We conducted an observational study using prospectively collected population-based OHCA data from the state of Victoria in Australia. …”
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Regions with low rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) have lower rates of CPR training in Victoria, Australia
Published 2017“…Conclusions-This study found lower rates of CPR training and lower survival in regions with lower rates of bystander CPR in Victoria, Australia. Targeting these regions with CPR training programs may improve bystander CPR rates and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes.…”
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Modelling antiviral treatment to prevent hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs in Victoria, Australia
Published 2012“…Conclusions: This model suggests that modest rates of current HCV treatment among PWID in Victoria, Australia could halve HCV infection prevalence among PWID in 30 years. …”
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Fear of (re)injury and return to work following compensable injury: Qualitative insights from key stakeholders in Victoria, Australia
Published 2017“…Methods: This paper involves data collected as part of a wider study in which semi-structured interviews explored RTW from the perspectives of 93 key stakeholders: injured workers, GPs, employers and insurance case managers in Victoria, Australia. Inductive analysis of interview transcripts identified fear of (re)injury as a salient theme across all stakeholder groups. …”
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