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Ivers R, Pendrey C, Burns P, McKinnon D, Hespe C, Mulvaney D
Aust J Gen Pract . 2025 Feb; 54(1-2):56-61. PMID: 39908997
Background: Climate change means that disasters such as bushfires, heatwaves, storms and floods are becoming more frequent and severe, and thus having greater impact on general practices and communities.  OBJECTIVE:...
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McLachlan H, Maher C, Lin C, Billot L, Day R, Ivers R, et al.
BMJ Open . 2024 Dec; 14(12):e096796. PMID: 39740937
Introduction: Sciatica is a debilitating condition that often becomes chronic, and for which there are few effective treatment options. Treatments such as the anti-depressant duloxetine have shown promise, but the...
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Dzidowska M, Lee K, Conigrave J, Wilson S, Hayman N, Ivers R, et al.
BMC Prim Care . 2024 Sep; 25(1):351. PMID: 39342107
Introduction: Primary care provides an important opportunity to detect unhealthy alcohol use and offer assistance but many barriers to this exist. In an Australian context, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services...
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Narayan S, Naganathan V, Vizza L, Underwood M, Ivers R, McLachlan A, et al.
Br J Clin Pharmacol . 2024 Sep; 90(12):3097-3118. PMID: 39265130
Aims: In many countries, pain is the most common indication for use of antidepressants in older adults. We reviewed the evidence from randomized controlled trials on the efficacy and safety...
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Conigrave J, Lee K, Dobbins T, Wilson S, Padarian J, Ivers R, et al.
BMC Health Serv Res . 2024 Jul; 24(1):813. PMID: 39010081
Background: While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are less likely to drink any alcohol than other Australians, those who drink are more likely to experience adverse alcohol-related health consequences....
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Weatherall T, Conigrave J, Lee K, Vnuk J, Ivers R, Hayman N, et al.
Drug Alcohol Rev . 2024 Apr; 43(5):1226-1234. PMID: 38639392
Introduction: Alcohol screening among Indigenous Australians is important to identify individuals needing support to reduce their drinking. Understanding clinical contexts in which clients are screened, and which clients are more...
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McLean C, Ivers R, Antony A, McMahon A
Aust J Gen Pract . 2024 Apr; 53(4):173-178. PMID: 38575531
Background: Alcohol use has an effect on nutritional status, with nutritional deficiencies being a major contributor to morbidity, for example Wernicke's encephalopathy. Currently, there is an absence of best-practice guidelines...
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Stevens M, Ivers R, Telenta J, Ali R
Aust J Prim Health . 2023 Dec; 30(1):NULL. PMID: 38123163
Background: Primary health care is critical to the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related harms. Scaling-up screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) within primary health care can...
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Wijayanti K, Schutze H, Mac Phail C, Ivers R
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev . 2023 Nov; 24(11):3993-3998. PMID: 38019260
Cervical cancer, caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Although many countries have introduced national HPV vaccination programs, many girls worldwide remain...
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Abdel Shaheed C, Ivers R, Vizza L, McLachlan A, Kelly P, Blyth F, et al.
BMJ Open . 2023 Nov; 13(11):e075286. PMID: 37989377
Introduction: Low back pain (LBP) is commonly treated with opioid analgesics despite evidence that these medicines provide minimal or no benefit for LBP and have an established profile of harms....