Death rates are greater if a patient is admitted to hospital via the Emergency Department over the weekend than during the working week, UNSW research finds.
Consumers are the strongest driver for change and innovation. Their voice has been surprisingly subdued about Australia’s public health system, but that could be about to change, writes Enrico Coiera.
Australian researchers are calling for the open sharing of clinical trial data in the medical research community, saying there's a case for using software hackers as role models for the open access of information.
UNSW has won funding to establish three new Centres of Excellence to drive research into the treatment of traumatic brain injuries, immunising at risk populations, and e-Health.
Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make fundamental changes to the way society views and treats illness, a group of leading healthcare academics and clinicians will argue at a free public lecture and debate at the University of New South Wales on Monday 24 May.
