Christopher Pearce

Influence of serum iron test results on the diagnosis of iron deficiency in children: a retrospective observational study

Gorkem Sezgin, Ling Li, Johanna Westbrook, Elisabeth Wearne, Denise Azar, Adam McLeod, Christopher Pearce, Vera Ignjatovic, Paul Monagle, A Georgiou

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ OPEN

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Serum iron results are not indicative of iron deficiency yet may be incorrectly used to diagnose iron de..

SERIES: eHealth in primary care. Part 3: eHealth education in primary care

Elisa JF Houwink, Marise J Kasteleyn, Laurence Alpay, Christopher Pearce, Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Eline Meijer, Sanne van Kampen, Anke Versluis, Tobias N Bonten, Jens H van Dalfsen, Petra G van Peet, Ybranda Koster, Beerend P Hierckg, Ilke Jeeninga, Sanne van Luenen, Rianne MJJ van der Kleij, Niels H Chavannes, Anneke WM Kramer

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE

BACKGROUND: Education is essential to the integration of eHealth into primary care, but eHealth is not yet embedded in medical edu..

Clinical thresholds for diagnosing iron deficiency: comparison of functional assessment of serum ferritin to population based centiles

Gorkem Sezgin, Paul Monagle, Tze Ping Loh, Vera Ignjatovic, Monsurul Hoq, Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Johanna Westbrook, Ling Li, Andrew Georgiou

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Low serum ferritin is diagnostic of iron deficiency, yet its published lower cut-off values are highly variable, particularly for ..

Consulting with a computer New frontiers

Christopher Pearce, Marie Sandoval

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE

BACKGROUND: General practice is now completely computerised yet still largely reflects the habits and culture of the paper records..

Exploring the Health Informatics Occupational Group in the 2018 Australian Health Information Workforce Census.

Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Kathleen Gray, Christopher Pearce, Ann Ritchie, Julie Brophy, Louise K Schaper, Vicki Bennett, Angela Ryan

Journal article  |  2019  |  Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

There has been no empirical evidence about the health informatics workforce in Australia produced in the last ten years. This stud..

The MyHealthRecord System Impacts on Patient Workflow in General Practices.

Urooj Raza Khan, Tanveer A Zia, Chris Pearce, Kaushalya Perera

Journal article  |  2019  |  Stud Health Technol Inform

Digital health is widely believed to have vast potential in improving patient care. MyHealthRecord (MyHR) is a digital health info..

Artificial intelligence and the clinical world: a view from the front line

Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Natalie Rinehart, Robin Whyte, Elizabeth Deveny, Marianne Shearer

Journal article  |  2019  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Antimicrobial prescribing for children in primary care

Jennifer Yan, Lesley Hawes, Lyle Turner, Danielle Mazza, Christopher Pearce, Jim Buttery

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH

AIM: To describe the patterns of antimicrobial prescribing in general practice for children aged ≤18 years. METHODS: This is a rev..

What a Comprehensive, Integrated Data Strategy Looks Like: The Population Level Analysis and Reporting (POLAR) Program

Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Natalie Rinehart, Jason Ferrigi, Marianne Shearer

Journal article  |  2019  |  MEDINFO 2019: HEALTH AND WELLBEING E-NETWORKS FOR ALL

In Australia, general practice (GP) acts as the gatekeeper to the rest of the healthcare system, and therefore the vast majority o..

POLAR Diversion: Using General Practice Data to Calculate Risk of Emergency Department Presentation at the Time of Consultation.

Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Natalie Rinehart, Jon Patrick, Anna Fragkoudi, Jason Ferrigi, Elizabeth Deveny, Robin Whyte, Marianne Shearer

Journal article  |  2019  |  Appl Clin Inform

OBJECTIVE: This project examined and produced a general practice (GP) based decision support tool (DST), namely POLAR Diversion, t..