Addressing cardiac risks for psychiatric patients in rural and remote areas has led Cairns Hospital and Health Service (HHS) to conduct a validation study of a new, ultra-portable Bluetooth...
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In-hospital suicides are often associated with occurring in the evening and during night shifts when there is reduced staff supervision. During these times of high risk, suicides occur in isolated...
Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff - Removing the non-value adding activities in everyday work.
The 2019 G.R.O.S.S. Awards is an initiative of the Future Hospital Program for Logan and Beaudesert...
ICG Lymphatic Imaging is an emerging technique used to visualise functional superficial lymphatic system. With the support of a Metro South SERTA project grant, the PA Lymphoedema Service has...
Pathological confirmation of lung cancer enables definitive diagnosis of cancer and differentiates the two major types of lung cancer which are managed quite differently. The choice of diagnostic...
BioJet fuses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and real-time ultrasound (US) during biopsy of the prostate for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. BioJet allows information from MRI to direct biopsy...
The Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) platform will enable collection of patient biometric data and connection with the Hospital in the Home (HITH) clinicians via notifications, alerts, and a triage...
ROLLIS is a technique where a small seed containing a very low dose of radioactive tracer (Iodine-125) is placed into the breast lesion by the radiologist. The surgeon uses a hand held probe in...
Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) registries provide clinicians with data about device-related complications and patient outcomes. The registry collects information about the patients requiring...
This project studied the feasibility of using a new robotic device in sampling small nodules via bronchoscopy. This is a first-in-human study performed at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital...
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