Video otoscopy plays an important role in improving access to ear health services. This study investigated the clinician-rated quality of video otoscopy recordings and still images, and compared their suitability for asynchronous diagnosis of middle-ear disease. Two hundred and eighty video otoscopy image-recording pairs were collected from 150 children (aged six months to 15 years) by an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist, audiologists, and trained research assistants, and independently rated by an audiologist and ENT surgeon. ...

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• 2021
• January 2021

The majority of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as “Aboriginal”) people live in urban centres. Otitis media (OM) occurs at a younger age, prevalence is higher and hearing loss and other serious complications are more common in Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children. Despite this, data on the burden of OM and hearing loss in urban Aboriginal children are limited. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Almost half of stillbirths could be potentially identified antenatally based on a combination of factors ...

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• 2020
• March 2020

While maternal high fat diet compromised litter survival, it also promoted somatic and lung growth (increased lung volume) in the offspring ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

Elevated levels of emotional difficulties among school students with T1D and variable levels of support from school staff to assist these students to manage their diabetes at school ...

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• 2018
• August 2018

This large population-based study identified no consistent association across two cohorts between prenatal head growth and postnatal autistic traits ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

We examined the relationship between a maternal alcohol-use diagnosis, and the timing of diagnosis, and child protection outcomes in a Western Australian population cohort. ...

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• 2017
• October 2017

Maternal alcohol use disorder was associated with a significantly increased odds of poor school attendance for non-Indigenous and Indigenous children. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

We hypothesized that allergic inflammation decreases the level of circulating 25(OH)D and tested this using a mice model of house dust mite (HDM) induced... ...

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• 2014
• November 2014

This study analysed spatial and historical variation in childhood incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) among Western Australia's 36 Health Districts... ...

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• 2014
• June 2014

Clinicians who counsel prospective ART patients about birth defect risk should provide information about the overall risk of having a child with a birth defect ...

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• 2011
• September 2011

Ewan Pete Camilo Nick Mauricio Sarah Joe Freya Cameron Gething Vargas Golding van den Berg Connor Harris Shearer EC PG CV NG MVDB SC JH FS BSc PhD BSc DPhil BSc MSc BSc, MPE BA (Oxon), MSt, MSc BSc DPhil Director of Malaria Risk Stratification ...

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