AEA - Benefits of Membership

Current questions that need answering……… please email Frances Garden if you have any suggestions for questions or answers for these unanswered questions francesg[at]health.usyd.edu.au

Question Number 2: Can anyone suggest a co-morbidity scale that has been validated for falls research?

Question Number 6:
Knowledge transfer, evidence based medicine and research impact
The arrival of the Research Quality Framework in Australia and similar performance based measures in New Zealand challenges us to shift our focus towards research which has a direct impact on day to day life. Knowledge transfer as a tool for achieving research translation is becoming more important. I have the opportunity to present a seminar on Australian perspectives and experiences with knowledge transfer in Canada in June 2007. As a student member/early career researcher have you participated in any knowledge transfer and exchange with respect to your research? What stakeholder group did you target? What challenges did you encounter in the process, and were you successful?

Question Number 1: Can anyone suggest an epidemiologist who has had extensive experience in analysing case-crossover data? I will be using case-crossover analysis to look at the role of alcohol in unintentional (non-occupational) falls occurring at home among working-aged people.

Suggestions: Gordon Smith - an injury epidemiologist based at Liberty Mutual has a strong interest in case-crossover research design and has experience with the analysis of data from these studies.

Question Number 2: Can anyone suggest a co-morbidity scale that has been validated for falls research?

Suggestions: unanswered

Question Number 3: Can anyone recommend a good injury epidemiology course in Australia?

Suggestions: The George Institute offers two relevant courses that are accredited through the University of Sydney.

Question Number 4: Does anyone know of any longitudinal data analysis short courses that are going to be available this year?

Question Number 5: Can anyone provide information about the establishment of Perinatal Data Collection particularly birthing data collection in Australia? e.g. information about the establishment of Perinatal Data Collection/Perinatal Statistics Units (PSUs) in the states, and/or the Midwives Data Collection forms in NSW for example, or the equivalent in other states e.g. Perinatal Morbidity Forms in Victoria. Also the National Perinatal Statistics Unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Or can anyone suggest where archives including this information might be accessible?

Suggestions: Dr John Condon: I ran the perinatal data collection in the Northern Territory for most of the 1990s and am still peripherally connected to it. I am not aware of any documents describing the history of perinatal collections, but would be happy to provide a bit of oral history to some who wanted to document it.

One document that may provide some limited information on one aspect of perinatal collections is “The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information Plan’ published by either the ABS or the AIHW in 1997. It probably isn’t on a website, but should be available through a library.

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