Douglas Johnson

Study protocol for PREPARE: a phase II feasibility/safety randomised controlled trial on PeRiopErative Penicillin AlleRgy TEsting.

Joseph F De Luca, Fiona James, Sara Vogrin, Kyra Chua, Luke Fletcher, Justin Nazareth, Ranjan Guha, Andrew Hardidge, Ned Douglas, John Carruthers, Andrew Stewardson, Allen C Cheng, Douglas Johnson, Jo Douglass, Trisha Peel, Jason Trubiano

Journal article  |  2023  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported antibiotic allergy labels (AALs) are common. These labels have been demonstrated to have a negative..

IMpleMenting Effective infection prevention and control in ReSidential aged carE (IMMERSE): protocol for a multi-level mixed methods implementation study.

Joanne Tropea, Sanne Peters, Jill J Francis, Noleen Bennett, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh, Kirsty Buising, Lyn-Li Lim, Caroline Marshall, Madelaine Flynn, Michael Murray, Paul Yates, Craig Aboltins, Douglas Johnson, Jason Kwong, Karrie Long, Judy McCahon, Wen K Lim

Journal article  |  2023  |  BMC Geriatr

BACKGROUND: Older people living in residential aged care facilities are at high risk of acquiring infections such as influenza, ga..

COVID-19 is associated with bystander polyclonal autoreactive B cell activation as reflected by a broad autoantibody production, but none is linked to disease severity.

Wei Jiang, Douglas Johnson, Ruth Adekunle, Hughes Heather, Wanli Xu, Xiaomei Cong, Xueling Wu, Hongkuan Fan, Lars-Magnus Andersson, Josefina Robertson, Magnus Gisslén

Journal article  |  2023  |  J Med Virol

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with autoimmune features and autoantibody production in a small subset of the po..

Severe hyponatraemia with cerebral oedema after Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against COVID-19.

JFM Dharma, S Montalto, DF Johnson, C Chiang, S Fourlanos

Journal article  |  2023  |  IDCases

BACKGROUND: Severe hyponatraemia can lead to serious neurological complications including coma, seizure and death. Hyponatraemia a..

Learning from the past to prepare for the future

Douglas Johnson, Megan Anne Rees

Journal article  |  2022  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Surveillance testing using salivary RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in managed quarantine facilities in Australia: A laboratory validation and implementation study

Adam Jenney, Doris Chibo, Mitch Batty, Julian Druce, Robert Melvin, Andrew Stewardson, Amanda Dennison, Sally Symes, Paul Kinsella, Thomas Tran, Charlene Mackenzie, Douglas Johnson, Irani Thevarajan, Christian McGrath, Amelia Matlock, Jacqueline Prestedge, Megan Gooey, Janine Roney, Joanne Bobbitt, Sarah Yallop, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  LANCET REGIONAL HEALTH-WESTERN PACIFIC

BACKGROUND: Regular repeat surveillance testing is a strategy to identify asymptomatic individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infections in h..

Another line of defence

Daniel P Steinfort, Douglas F Johnson

Journal article  |  2022  |  RESPIROLOGY

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Research activities in general medicine: a scoping survey by the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand

Ar K Aung, Robert Pickles, Anne Knight, Leigh-Anne Shannon, Andrew Bowers, Sinead Donnelly, Douglas F Johnson, Ian A Scott, Elizabeth L Potter

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: In developing an effective framework for a collaborative research network (RN) that supports members involved in resea..

Review article: latent tuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases receiving immunosuppression-risks, screening, diagnosis and management.

Sasha R Fehily, Aysha H Al-Ani, Jonathan Abdelmalak, Clarissa Rentch, Eva Zhang, Justin T Denholm, Douglas Johnson, Siew C Ng, Vishal Sharma, David T Rubin, Peter R Gibson, Britt Christensen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Aliment Pharmacol Ther

BACKGROUND: One quarter of the world's population has latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Systemic immunosuppression is a risk f..

COVID-19 pandemic 2020: a tertiary Melbourne hospital's experience

Brodie Farrow, Asha Bonney, Kasha P Singh, Steven Tong, Louis Irving, Wen Kwang Lim, Seok Lim, Douglas Johnson, Caroline Marshall, Kirsty Buising, Belinda Liu, Benjamin Cowie, Megan Rees, Alistair Miller

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected different parts of Australia in distinct ways across 2020 and 2021. In 2020, Melbou..