Studies by Investigator S-Z

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Sajkov, Dimitar

• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants.

Sanderson, Christine

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting.
• Application of a clinical typology for terminal restlessness
• Evaluation of a tool for general practitioners:  Helping Patients And Families Plan For An Expected Home Death:  The GP’s Checklist
• Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
• Identifying the barriers to access to palliative care services by patients from a CALD background: A chart audit of 100 CALD deaths at CHCK
• Upfront Family Meetings for Community Palliative Care Services
• Upfront Family Meetings for in-patient Palliative Care Services

Savage, Sally

• Managing diabetes at the end of life

Schattner Peter

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria

Scott, Wendy

• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer

Scott, William (Bill)

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Sellick, Ken

• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals

Senior, Kate

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program

Sesta, Paula

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Scott, Wendy

• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer

Scott, William (Bill)

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Shahwan-Akl, Linda

• Palliative care education: Does it influence future practice?

Shelby-James, Tania

• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients

Sibbritt, David

• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?
• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit

Sikka, Elizabeth

• Development of a statewide coordinated specialist and generalised palliative medicine training program

Siminski, Peter

• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Sinclair, Craig

• Assessing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of targeted nurse-led advance care planning interventions among patients with severe respiratory disease in a metropolitan tertiary hospital and in a rural setting

Skerman, Helen

• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer

Sladek, Ruth

• Determining eHealth literacy levels
• Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies
• Palliative care search strategy validation

Smith, J

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

Smith, Joanna

• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use

Splitt, Mercy

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Sproston, Michael

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Spruyt, Odette

• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Assessing the impact of 'catastrophizing' on the measurement of pain intensity in cancer patients
• Improving palliative care services for adolescents and young adults with cancer
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer
• 1. Prospective audit of clinical efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain; 2. Clinical use, efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - a retrospective chart audit

Spurling, Geoffrey

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus

Stacey, Fiona

• Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW

St John, Winsome

• What are the decision-making processes that underpin the self-management of persistent pain?

Sundararajan, Vijaya

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Swetenham, Kate

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Syrmis, William

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus

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Tan, Heather

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria

Tan, Jung-Ying

• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

Taylor, Janet

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Thomas, David

• Improving palliative care services for adolescents and young adults with cancer

Thomas, Samantha

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Thompson, Kate

• The relevance of music for adolescents and young adults (15-25 years) diagnosed with cancer

Thornton, Rebecca

• Memory making in neonatal end-of-life care

Tieman, Jennifer

• A structured approach to evidence based quality improvement for  palliative care
• Costs of Care search resource
• Determining eHealth literacy levels
• Development of the Stroke Search Filter
• Effect of supportive engagement through MOOC participation on death awareness and death attitudes
• Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
• How do clinicians learn about Knowledge Translation? Examining the online opportunities
• Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies
• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Palliative care search strategy validation
• Views and experiences of Allied Health professionals about palliative care, and about the CareSearch Allied Health Hub (AHH) and newsletter

Tilse, Cheryl

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life

Tofler, Geoff

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

Trauer, Tom

• Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention
• Improving the psychological wellbeing of family caregivers of home based palliative care patients: a randomised controlled trial
• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Trewartha, Jenny

• Liverpool Care Pathway project

Turner, Robin

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life
• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life
• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study

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Vagholkar, Sanjyot

• General practitioners & palliative care study

Vojkovic, S

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

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Walker, Helen

• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in residential aged care (CEBPRAC)

Waller, Amy

• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit
• Palliative care needs assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C)
• Palliative care needs assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure
• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer

Walscher, Vicki

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Walsh, Kaye

• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals

Weil, Jennifer

• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff

Wein, Simon

• An audit of the incidence, mechanism, aetiology and management of nausea and vomiting in patients at a comprehensive cancer centre
• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer

Wheat, Janelle

• Listen Acknowledge Respond

Wheeler, Greg

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

White, Ben

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life
• Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment from adults who lack capacity: The role of law in medical practice

White, Kate

• A palliative approach for people with declining health, living in hostel accommodation: the state of play
• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

Whyte, Julianne

• “Finding Hope and Meaning at a time of Uncertainty”
• Listen Acknowledge Respond

Wilkinson, Kate

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Williams, Jacqui

• Bayside Palliative Carers Support Group

Williams, Kate

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program

Willmott, Lindy

• Dying in pain: a pilot study
• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life
• Futile treatment at the end of life: legal, policy, sociological and economic perspectives

Willis, David

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Wilson, Jill

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life

Wilson, Monica

• Accompanying them home : the ethics of hospice palliative care

Wong, Debbie

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Wootten, Julia

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus

Wootton, Richard

• Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: A randomised controlled pilot study of videotelephony

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Yates, Patsy

• A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings
• A study of the integration of health promotion principles and practice in palliative care organisations
• A two-stage trial of antiemetic therapy in patients with cancer and nausea not related to anticancer therapy  Study 1: A randomised open label study of guideline–driven targeted antiemetic therapy versus single agent antiemetic therapy
• Evaluation of the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer
• Implementing principles of end-of-life care in acute care settings
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
• So many questions

Yeatman, Heather

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program

Young, Ivan

• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg

Yong, Melvin

• Assessing the Impact of 'catastrophizing' on the measurement of pain intensity in cancer patients

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Zalcberg, John

• Life threatening cancer across the lifespan: Examining the relevance of music to patients and their companions

Zwar, Nick

• General Practitioners & Palliative Care Study
• The use of levomepromazine in palliation (TULIP)
• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants

Last updated 27 April 2017