Margaret Hellard

Immediate treatment for recent hepatitis C infection in people with high-risk behaviors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Lakshmi Manoharan, Ned H Latham, Stephanie C Munari, Michael W Traeger, Vinay Menon, Niklas Luhmann, Rachel Baggaley, Virginia Macdonald, Annette Verster, Nandi Siegfried, Gail V Matthews, Mark Stoové, Margaret E Hellard, Joseph S Doyle

Journal article  |  2023  |  Hepatol Commun

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) are almost exclusively approved for the treatment of chronic HCV. This poses ..

Assessment of a primary care e-support package of automated case finding, simplified treatment algorithm and decision support to increase hepatitis B treatment uptake in primary care clinics in Australia (SIMPLY-B Study): protocol for a pilot evaluation.

Dina Moussa, Jack Wallace, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Joseph S Doyle, Long Nguyen, Douglas Boyle, Mark A Stoové, Jason Asselin, Zina Valaydon, Marvad Ahad, Susanne Glasgow, Kate New, Jane S Hocking, Lena Sanci, Alexander Thompson, Margaret Hellard, Jess Howell

Journal article  |  2023  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Despite the availability of effective, subsidised hepatitis B treatment, linkage to care and treatment rates remain ..

Eliminating hepatitis C in Australia: a novel model of hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs at a medically supervised injecting facility.

Michael B MacIsaac, Bradley Whitton, Adrian Hubble, Shelley Cogger, Matthew Penn, Anthony Weeks, Kasey Elmore, David Pemberton, Jenine Anderson, Rebecca Howard, Una McKeever, Timothy Papaluca, Margaret E Hellard, Mark Stoove, David Wilson, Alisa Pedrana, Joseph Doyle, Nico Clark, Jacinta Holmes, Alexander J Thompson

Journal article  |  2023  |  Med J Aust

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of testing and treating people who inject drugs at a supervised injecting facility for hepa..

Infectious syphilis in women and heterosexual men in major Australian cities: sentinel surveillance data, 2011-2019

Allison Carter, Hamish McManus, James S Ward, Tobias Vickers, Jason Asselin, Greta Baillie, Eric PF Chow, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, Christopher Bourne, Anna McNulty, Phillip Read, Kevin Heath, Nathan Ryder, Jenny McCloskey, Christopher Carmody, Heather McCormack, Kate Alexander, Dawn Casey, Mark Stoove, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

OBJECTIVES: To examine changes in the positive infectious syphilis test rate among women and heterosexual men in major Australian ..

Recruiting and retaining community-based participants in a COVID-19 longitudinal cohort and social networks study: lessons from Victoria, Australia.

Thi Nguyen, Alexander J Thomas, Phoebe Kerr, Ashleigh C Stewart, Anna Lee Wilkinson, Long Nguyen, Aimée Altermatt, Kathryn Young, Katherine Heath, Anna Bowring, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Dean Lusher, Sophie Hill, Alisa Pedrana, Mark Stoové, Katherine Gibney, Margaret Hellard

Journal article  |  2023  |  BMC Med Res Methodol

BACKGROUND: Longitudinal studies are critical to informing evolving responses to COVID-19 but can be hampered by attrition bias, w..

Validation of a novel point-of-care test for alanine aminotransferase measurement: A pilot cohort study

Jessica Howell, Huy Van, Minh D Pham, Rohit Sawhney, Fan Li, Purnima Bhat, John Lubel, William Kemp, Stephen Bloom, Avik Majumdar, Geoffrey W McCaughan, Samuel Hall, Timothy Spelman, Joseph S Doyle, Margaret Hellard, Kumar Visvanathan, Alexander Thompson, Heidi E Drummer, David Anderson

Journal article  |  2023  |  LIVER INTERNATIONAL

BACKGROUND: Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) measurement is essential for evaluation of liver disease. We validated a novel rapid po..

An evaluation of existing text de-identification tools for use with patient progress notes from Australian general practice.

Carol El-Hayek, Siamak Barzegar, Noel Faux, Kim Doyle, Priyanka Pillai, Simon J Mutch, Alaina Vaisey, Roger Ward, Lena Sanci, Adam G Dunn, Margaret E Hellard, Jane S Hocking, Karin Verspoor, Douglas Ir Boyle

Journal article  |  2023  |  Int J Med Inform

INTRODUCTION: Digitized patient progress notes from general practice represent a significant resource for clinical and public heal..

Renal impairment associated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for antiretroviral therapy and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: An observational cohort study.

Jack E Heron, Hamish McManus, Tobias Vickers, Kathleen Ryan, Edwina Wright, Allison Carter, Mark Stoove, Jason Asselin, Andrew Grulich, Basil Donovan, Rebecca Guy, Rick Varma, Marcus Chen, Nathan Ryder, David A Lewis, David J Templeton, Catherine C O'Connor, David M Gracey, undefined ACCESS Collaboration

Journal article  |  2023  |  PLoS One

BACKGROUND: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is associated with adverse renal outcomes when prescribed for HIV infection. There..

Estimating the proportion of Victorians infected with COVID-19 during the Omicron BA.1 epidemic wave of January 2022 in Australia.

Aimée Altermatt, Katherine Heath, Freya Saich, Anna Lee Wilkinson, Nick Scott, Rachel Sacks-Davis, Kathryn Young, Mark Stoové, Katherine B Gibney, Margaret Hellard

Journal article  |  2023  |  Aust N Z J Public Health

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the proportion of Victorians infected with COVID-19 in January 2022. METHODS: Between 11-19 February 2022 w..

Inclusion of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in COVID-19 Public Health Research: Research Design Adaptations to Seek Different Perspectives in Victoria, Australia.

Lisa Gibbs, Alexander J Thomas, Alison Coelho, Adil Al-Qassas, Karen Block, Niamh Meagher, Limya Eisa, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Tianhui Ke, Phoebe Kerr, Edwin Jit Leung Kwong, Colin MacDougall, Deng Malith, Katitza Marinkovic Chavez, Deborah Osborne, David J Price, Freya Shearer, Mark Stoove, Kathryn Young, Yanqin Zhang, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  Int J Environ Res Public Health

Participation of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in public health research is often limited b..