Dr

Samantha Bunzli

Research Fellow

Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

Dr

Samantha Bunzli

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Primary Interest

Osteoarthritis

Dr

Samantha Bunzli

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FEATURED Journal article

Misconceptions and the Acceptance of Evidence-based Nonsurgical Interventions for Knee Osteoarthritis. A Qualitative Study

Samantha Bunzli's selected work

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DEC..
Research Grant
Pearls: How (and Why) to Use Participatory Language When Communicating with Patients About..
Journal article
THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF..
Research Grant
What do people post on social media relative to low back pain? A content analysis of Austr..
Journal article
REDUCING INAPPROPRIATE KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND HOSPITAL BURDEN
Research Grant
Placebo Surgery Controlled Trials Do They Achieve What They Set Out To Do? A Systematic Re..
Journal article

Samantha Bunzli's selected work

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DEC..

Research Grant

Pearls: How (and Why) to Use Participatory Language When Communicating with Patients About..

Journal article

THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF..

Research Grant

What do people post on social media relative to low back pain? A content analysis of Austr..

Journal article

REDUCING INAPPROPRIATE KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND HOSPITAL BURDEN

Research Grant

Placebo Surgery Controlled Trials Do They Achieve What They Set Out To Do? A Systematic Re..

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 9 most recent projects by Samantha Bunzli.

REDUCING INAPPROPRIATE KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY AND HOSPITAL BURDEN

THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF PERFORMING SHAM SURGERY TRIALS INVOLVING MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF PERFORMING SHAM SURGERY TRIALS INVOLVING MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Randomising patients to receive either an 'active' or a 'sham' (pretend) surgery and comparing the outcomes is the best way to test how effe..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

"It looks good but it feels bad". Understanding ‘failed’ Total Knee Replacement from the perspectives of patients and their surgeons

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Samantha Bunzli.

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Pearls: How (and Why) to Use Participatory Language When Communicating with Patients About Osteoarthritis.

Samantha Bunzli

Journal article | 2021 | Clin Orthop Relat Res

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What do people post on social media relative to low back pain? A content analysis of Australian data

Edel T O'Hagan, Adrian C Traeger, Samantha Bunzli, Hayley B Leake, Siobhan M Schabrun, Benedict M Wand, Sean O'Neill, Ian A Harris, James H McAuley

Journal article | 2021 | MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

OBJECTIVE: Low back pain is the leading contributor to the global disability burden. The Global Spine Care Initiative (GSCI) recom..

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Placebo Surgery Controlled Trials Do They Achieve What They Set Out To Do? A Systematic Review

Samantha Bunzli, Emma Choong, Cade Shadbolt, Laura Wall, Elizabeth Nelson, Chris Schilling, Helen Wilding, L Stefan Lohmander, Zsolt J Balogh, Francesco Paolucci, Philip Clarke, Peter FM Choong, Michelle M Dowsey

Journal article | 2021 | ANNALS OF SURGERY

OBJECTIVE: To explore whether placebo surgery controlled trials achieve what they set out to do by investigating discrepancy betwe..

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How Do People Communicate About Knee Osteoarthritis? A Discourse Analysis

Samantha Bunzli, Nicholas Taylor, Penny O'Brien, Michelle Dowsey, Jason Wallis, Peter Choong, Nora Shields

Journal article | 2021 | PAIN MEDICINE

OBJECTIVE: To explore the ways in which people talk about knee osteoarthritis and how this may influence engagement in physical ac..

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CORR Insights®: Clinician Facial Expression of Emotion Corresponds with Patient Mindset.

Samantha Bunzli

Journal article | 2021 | Clin Orthop Relat Res

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Gamifying health literacy: how can digital technology optimize patient outcomes in surgery?

Myles T Davaris, Samantha Bunzli, Michelle M Dowsey, Peter F Choong

Journal article | 2021 | ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY

The digital age is entrenched in our society, with constant innovation driving change in the way clinicians and patients manage th..

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eLearning in Physical Therapy: Lessons Learned From Transitioning a Professional Education Program to Full eLearning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Leo Ng, Kuang Cheng Seow, Laetitia MacDonald, Christina Correia, Alan Reubenson, Peter Gardner, Angela L Spence, Samantha Bunzli, Beatriz Ito Ramos De Oliveira

Journal article | 2021 | Phys Ther

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this cross-sectional qualitative study were to explore the perspectives of students enrolled in one p..

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ARTHROPLASTY INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: QUALITY OR QUANTITY?

MT Davaris, MM Dowsey, S Bunzli, PF Choong

Conference Proceedings | 2021 | OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE

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Addressing surgical inequity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's universal health care system: a call to action

Penny O'Brien, Samantha Bunzli, Ivan Lin, Dawn Bessarab, Juli Coffin, Michelle M Dowsey, Peter FM Choong

Journal article | 2021 | ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to experience health inequity within the Australian health care system. Litt..

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The effect of animated consent material on participants' willingness to enrol in a placebo-controlled surgical trial: a protocol for a randomised feasibility study

Elizabeth Nelson, Cade Shadbolt, Samantha Bunzli, Angela Cochrane, Peter Choong, Michelle Dowsey

Journal article | 2021 | Pilot and Feasibility Studies

BACKGROUND: Placebo-controlled surgical trials are recognised as the gold standard way to test the efficacy of a surgical procedur..

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Keyword Analysis

Clinical Sciences

Clinical Health

Evaluation of Health and Support Services

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Health Services and Systems

Sports Science and Exercise

Allied Health and Rehabilitation Science

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences Early Career Travel Grant

2016

Best Paper Presentation

Australian Pain Society

2014

Elsevier Book Prize

Curtin University

2013

Best New Investigator Award - Musculoskeletal

Australian Physiotherapy Association

2010

Australian Postgraduate Award

Australian Government

2010

Curtin Postgraduate Scholarship

Curtin University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Research Fellow

Surgery - St Vincent's Hospital

Registered Physiotherapist

Osteoarthritis Research Society International

Member

Australian Physiotherapy Association

Member Of The International Association For The Study Of Pain

International Association for the Study of Pain

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Curtin University of Technology

Honours Degree (Health Sciences)

University of South Australia

Research Methodology

University of South Australia

Bachelor of Physiotherapy

University of Otago

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ORCID

0000-0002-5747-9361

International Linkages

University of Southern Denmark

Denmark

University of Oxford

England

Lund University

Sweden