Rafiqul Islam

Modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) for Prognostication of Adult Oncology Patients With Palliative Intent in a Regional Victorian Hospital, Australia

Nuttaradee Lojanapiwat, Md Rafiqul Islam, Martin Ridout, Sivakumar Subramaniam

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: Accurate prognostication is essential in caring for palliative patients. Various prognostication tools have been valid..

Relationship between serum zinc, HOMA2 parameters and glycemic status in a regional Australian hospital population

Sarah Lim, Ainsley M Robinson, Arup Bhattacharya, John Kilmartin, Abul H Milton, Md Rafiqul Islam

Journal article  |  2020  |  MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM

BACKGROUND: Previous studies demonstrated lower serum zinc among prediabetics and diabetics, compared to normoglycemics, however n..

Factors contributing to COPD hospitalisations from 2010 to 2015: Variation among rural and metropolitan Australians

Daniel R Terry, Huang Nguyen, Jeong-Ah Kim, Md Rafiqul Islam

Journal article  |  2019  |  CLINICAL RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

INTRODUCTION: Rural and remote populations experience the greatest burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the fif..

Quality of acute stroke care in a regional Victorian hospital, Australia

Tze Wei Wilson Yang, Md Rafiqul Islam

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH

OBJECTIVE: The quality of acute stroke care in a regional Victorian hospital (study hospital) was assessed by comparing with selec..

FACTORS RELATED TO HOSPITAL READMISSIONS IN AN ACUTE INPATIENT UNIT FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN A RURAL MULTICULTURAL COMUNITY

Subhash Das, Raju Laksmana, Saji Joseph, Vivek Phutane, Md Rafiqul Islam

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Elevated Trimethylarsine Oxide and Inorganic Arsenic in Northern Hemisphere Summer Monsoonal Wet Deposition.

Laurie Savage, Manus Carey, Mahmud Hossain, M Rafiqul Islam, P Mangala CS de Silva, Paul N Williams, Andrew A Meharg

Journal article  |  2017  |  Environ Sci Technol

For arsenic speciation, the inputs for wet deposition are not well understood. Here we demonstrate that trimethylarsine oxide (TMA..

Asthma hospitalisation trends from 2010 to 2015: variation among rural and metropolitan Australians

Daniel Terry, Shalley Robins, Samantha Gardiner, Ruby Wyett, Md Rafiqul Islam

Journal article  |  2017  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Asthma remains a leading cause of illness, where primary care can assist to reduce hospitalisations through prevention..

Causal Effect of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1 on Coronary Heart Disease

Ci Song, Stephen Burgess, John D Eicher, Christopher J O'Donnell, Andrew D Johnson

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION

BACKGROUND: Plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) plays an essential role in the fibrinolysis system and thrombosis. Popu..

An approach to extract text regions from scene image

R Islam, MR Islam, KH Talukder

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  International Conference on Computing, Analytics and Security Trends, CAST 2016

Text data present in scene images may be the important clue for indexing, automatic footnote, and indexing of images. Now-a-days e..

Estimation of exciton confinement in III-Nitride quantum wires

R Islam, S Hasan, MR Islam

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2016

The optical properties of one dimensional (1D) structures are dominated by the excitonic behaviour which are formed by optical abs..