Caroline Brand

Do family meetings for hospitalised palliative care patients improve outcomes and reduce health care costs? A cluster randomised trial.

Peter Hudson, Afaf Girgis, Kristina Thomas, Jennifer Philip, David C Currow, Geoffrey Mitchell, Deborah Parker, Danny Liew, Caroline Brand, Brian Le, Juli Moran

Journal article  |  2020  |  Palliative Medicine

BACKGROUND: Family meetings facilitate the exploration of issues and goals of care however, there has been minimal research to det..

Triaging the Terminally Ill-Development of the Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care (RUN-PC) Triage Tool

Bethany Russell, Sara Vogrin, Jennifer Philip, Nicole Hennessy-Anderson, Anna Collins, Jodie Burchell, Brian Le, Caroline Brand, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

CONTEXT: Evidence-based resource allocation is receiving increasing attention as we strive for equity, transparency, and cost-effe..

Simulation training in non-cancer palliative care for healthcare workers: A systematic review of controlled studies

J Tropea, R Bicknell, D Nestel, CA Brand, CE Johnson, SK Paul, BH Le, WK Lim

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning

BackgroundThe need for healthcare workers (HCWs) to have skills and knowledge in non-cancer palliative care has been recognised. S..

A mixed methods process evaluation of a person-centred falls prevention program

Rebecca L Morris, Keith D Hill, Ilana N Ackerman, Darshini Ayton, Glenn Arendts, Caroline Brand, Peter Cameron, Christopher D Etherton-Beer, Leon Flicker, Anne-Marie Hill, Peter Hunter, Judy A Lowthian, Renata Morello, Samuel R Nyman, Julie Redfern, De Villiers Smit, Anna L Barker

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Health Services Research

BACKGROUND: RESPOND is a telephone-based falls prevention program for older people who present to a hospital emergency department ..

A screen-based simulation training program to improve palliative care of people with advanced dementia living in residential aged care facilities and reduce hospital transfers: study protocol for the IMproving Palliative care Education and Training Using Simulation in Dementia (IMPETUS-D) cluster randomised controlled trial

Joanne Tropea, Christina E Johnson, Debra Nestel, Sanjoy K Paul, Caroline A Brand, Anastasia F Hutchinson, Ross Bicknell, Wen Kwang Lim

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Palliative Care

BACKGROUND: Many people with advanced dementia live in residential aged care homes. Care home staff need the knowledge and skills ..

The Ethics of Prioritizing Access to Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study

Jennifer Philip, Bethany Russell, Anna Collins, Caroline Brand, Brian Le, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2019  |  American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®

Evaluation of RESPOND, a patient-centred program to prevent falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: A randomised controlled trial

Anna Barker, Peter Cameron, Leon Flicker, Glenn Arendts, Caroline Brand, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Andrew Forbes, Terry Haines, Anne-Marie Hill, Peter Hunter, Judy Lowthian, Samuel R Nyman, Julie Redfern, De Villiers Smit, Nicholas Waldron, Eileen Boyle, Ellen MacDonald, Darshini Ayton, Renata Morello, Keith Hill

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS Medicine

The projected burden of primary total knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis in Australia to the year 2030

Ilana N Ackerman, Megan A Bohensky, Ella Zomer, Mark Tacey, Alexandra Gorelik, Caroline A Brand, Richard de Steiger

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Novel application of discrete choice experiment methodology to understand how clinicians around the world triage palliative care needs: A research protocol

Bethany Russell, Sara Vogrin, Jennifer Philip, Nicole Hennessy-Anderson, Anna Collins, Jodie Burchell, Brian Le, Caroline Brand, Peter Hudson, Vijaya Sundararajan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Palliative and Supportive Care

A randomised phase II trial to examine feasibility of standardised, early palliative (STEP) care for patients with advanced cancer and their families [ACTRN12617000534381]: a research protocol.

Jennifer Philip, Anna Collins, Brian Le, Vijaya Sundararajan, Caroline Brand, Susan Hanson, Jon Emery, Peter Hudson, Linda Mileshkin, Soula Ganiatsas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Pilot and Feasibility Studies

Background: Current international consensus is that 'early' referral to palliative care services improves cancer patient and famil..