Obesity increases the risks associated with surgery. Surgeons at Logan Hospital were declining to operate on obese patients due to these associated risks, and so in 2014 a dietitian...
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Implementation of a model of care for obese patients requiring weight loss prior to elective surgery
Management of end stage liver disease is often complicated by sarcopenia and frailty (1,2). New evidence-based guidelines recommend that pre-transplant nutrition assessment should incorporate...
Malnutrition in hospitals is common and usually identified by weight loss. However, weight loss does not give information about body composition - the amount of fat and muscle in the body....
Research publications have reported increased digestive tract cancers in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The adult CF centre at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) identified unexpected early...
The Rural Allied & Community Health Team in Gayndah (Wide Bay HHS) has participated in state-wide trials since 2014 of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway, including redesign of...
The project reviewed the impact of implementing a transdisciplinary service in the Acute Stroke Unit (Toowoomba Hospital) on patient and service outcomes by comparing Short Stay Stroke Service (...
A partnership has been established between a group of allied health professionals from across the central and north-west belt of Queensland to improve the patient’s sub-acute journey, particularly...
The Townsville Hospital Paediatric Burns Service is the first of its kind in Australia, allowing families to make a choice about how and where they will receive their care.
Children with...
The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Spinal Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multidisciplinary Service (SPSC&MDS) Telehealth clinic was implemented to enable access to appropriate non-...
Telehealth in the home consultations were implemented and evaluated within five established allied health outpatient clinics at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.
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