BACKGROUND Allied Health Professionals today are required, more than ever before, to demonstrate their impact. However, despite at least 20 years of expectation, many services fail to deliver routine outcome measurement in practice. This systematic review investigates what helps and hinders routine outcome measurement of allied health professionals practice. METHODS A systematic review protoc...

Background. Evidence indicates that Stroke Units decrease mortality and morbidity. An Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) provides specialised, hyperacute care and thrombolysis. John Hunter Hospital, Australia, admits 500 stroke patients each year and has a 4-bed ASU. Aims. This study investigated hospital admissions over a 5-year period of all strokes patients and of all patients admitted to the 4-bed ASU...

INTRODUCTION Allied health professionals (AHPs) report positive attitudes to using research evidence in clinical practice, yet often lack time, confidence and skills to use, participate in and conduct research. A range of multifaceted strategies including education, mentoring and guidance have been implemented to increase AHPs' use of and participation in research. Emerging evidence suggests th...

n celebrating 20 years of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), we have to include, since 1992, the development of the Allied Respiratory Professionals' Assembly (Assembly 9). The Allied Respiratory Professionals' Assembly originated from the need of this growing group of healthcare providers to engage in the ERS as a visible group for its stakeholders (including patients, research bodies and...

The 50th annual National Scientific Conference of the Australian Society for Medical Research was held in Cairns, Queensland, 13-16 November 2011. The theme, 'Indigenous Health: ACTION on Prevention' highlighted the direct action being undertaken by health and medical researchers, as well as allied health professionals, to improve long-term health outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

J Jo ou ur rn na al l C Cl lu ub b D De et ta ai il ls s Date of submission Feb 2010 What is the role of allied health in the treatment of infants with feeding disorders which are related to maternal anxiety/mental health? Review Question/PICO/PACO P Infants aged 0-18 months with feeding disorder/problems related to maternal anxiety/mental health I Multidisciplinary allied health therapy C no i...

BACKGROUND Currently in the Australian higher education sector higher productivity from allied health clinical education placements is a contested issue. This paper will report results of a study that investigated output changes associated with occupational therapy and nutrition/dietetics clinical education placements in Queensland, Australia. Supervisors' and students' time use during placemen...

The purpose of the study was to determine prevalent conflict management styles chosen by students in nursing and to contrast these styles with those chosen by students in allied health professions. The associations among the level of professional health care education and the style chosen were also determined. A convenience sample of 126 students in a comprehensive university completed the Thom...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous Australians experience more aggressive cancers and higher cancer mortality rates than other Australians. Cancer patients undergoing treatment are likely to access health services (e.g. social worker, cancer helpline, pain management services). To date Indigenous cancer patients' use of these services is limited. This paper describes the use of health services by Indigeno...