Labeling medical test results as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ helps clinicians make quick judgments when diagnosing patients. But this binary approach to interpreting tests can lead to fatal errors.
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Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
Feeling heard and understood by a medical provider is a crucial part of healthcare for patients.
Clinicians and health service heads are willing to accept a lower standard of care for people outside of major cities because they consider it ‘better than nothing’.
An unintentional consequence of NDIS supports has been an emphasis on clinical settings. But children with autism are served better by naturalistic supports.
New national standards aim to change doctors’ prescribing habits for hospital patients with pain when they’re discharged home. But clinicians also need to ensure patients’ pain is well managed.
Guidelines galore suggest how we can take care of ourselves in concert with our doctors. Here’s why it’s not as easy as it may seem (and how those guidelines get written)
Junior doctors are often blamed when things go wrong in hospital. But are we placing too many demands on them?
To avoid ineffective treatments, we need a new way to identify and reduce questionable care. A new Grattan Institute report shows how to do it.
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Associate Professor, Neurology, University of Florida
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical pharmacist and Scientia Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor & Senior Principal Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Research Fellow, Health Services, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Applied Implementation Science, Charles Darwin University
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PhD Candidate/Health and Health Services Researcher, Charles Darwin University
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Administration, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz