Ankylosing spondylitis is a common form of inflammatory arthritis predominantly affecting the spine and pelvis that occurs in approximately 5 out of 1,000 adult ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• August 2011

Increased numbers of children presenting with febrile adverse events following trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) were noted in Australia in 2010. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• June 2011

On the back of the growing capacity of networked digital information technologies to process and visualise large amounts of information in a timely, efficient a ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• August 2010

Applied Spatial Statistics used in conjunction with geographic information systems (GIS) provide an efficient tool for the surveillance of diseases ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• February 2010

To generate contemporary age-specific mortality rates for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aged <65 years who died from rheumatic heart disease between 2013 and 2017, and to ascertain the underlying causes of death of a prevalent RHD cohort aged <65 years who died during the same period. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• March 2023

The Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform (SNAP) trial is a multifactorial Bayesian adaptive platform trial that aims to improve the way that S. aureus bloodstream infection, a globally common and severe infectious disease, is treated. In a world first, the SNAP trial will simultaneously investigate the effects of multiple intervention modalities within multiple groups of participants with different forms of S. aureus bloodstream infection. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• December 2023

Globally, Indigenous children have historical and contemporary connections with government child protection services that have caused significant harm to their long-term health and wellbeing. Innovative, culturally secure and recovery focussed service provision is required. ...

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• 2024
• July 2024

Group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis has traditionally been considered the sole precursor of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). Evidence from Australia, however, suggests that GAS skin infections may contribute to the pathogenesis of ARF. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• November 2020

There is low coverage of the multivalent M protein vaccine in our setting, emphasizing the need to reformulate the vaccine to improve coverage ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• October 2019

To investigate how well intellectual disability (ID) can be ascertained using hospital morbidity data compared with a population-based data source. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• January 2018

Adolescents were likely to use a mobile phone app for relationship support, and use was not influenced by background characteristics ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• March 2018

Increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity as a major determinant of offspring health during childhood and later adult life ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• January 2017