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Contemp Clin Trials 2022 Jul 17;118:106794. Epub 2022 May 17.

School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia; The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Background: Practice-level quality improvement initiatives using rapidly advancing technology offers a multidimensional approach to reduce cardiovascular disease burden. For the "QUality improvement in primary care to prevent hospitalisations and improve Effectiveness and efficiency of care for people Living with heart disease" (QUEL) cluster randomised controlled trial, a 12-month quality improvement intervention was designed for primary care practices to use data and implement progressive changes using "Plan, Do, Study, Act" cycles within their practices with training in a series of interactive workshops. This protocol aims to describe the systematic methods to conduct a process evaluation of the data-driven intervention within the QUEL study. Read More

BMJ Open 2022 05 15;12(5):e059716. Epub 2022 May 15.

Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence and incidence of diabetes among Aboriginal peoples in remote communities of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia.

Design: Retrospective cohort analysis of linked clinical and administrative data sets from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2019.

Setting: Remote health centres using the NT Government Primary Care Information System (51 out of a total of 84 remote health centres in the NT). Read More

Zoology (Jena) 2022 06 22;152:126014. Epub 2022 Apr 22.

Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi, 103-41125 Modena, Italy; School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia. Electronic address:

The study of insular variation has fascinated generations of biologists and has been central to evolutionary biology at least since the time of Wallace and Darwin. In this context, using 3D geometric morphometrics, I investigate whether the population of mountain hares (Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758) introduced in 1857 on the Swedish island of Hallands Väderö shows distinctive traits in cranial size and shape. I find that size divergence follows the island rule, but is very small. Read More

Ambio 2022 Aug 10;51(8):1772-1785. Epub 2022 May 10.

Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 8, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.

Small game animals are generally hunted with lead gunshot which often fragments causing elevated lead concentrations in meat and presenting health risks to frequent consumers and vulnerable groups. We reviewed three decades of European data on lead concentrations in the meat of gamebirds, rabbits and hares across countries with various restrictions on lead gunshot use. Mean meat lead concentrations decreased to a low level in Denmark, the only country in the study with a total ban on lead gunshot use. Read More

Geroscience 2022 Jun 14;44(3):1641-1655. Epub 2022 Apr 14.

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.

Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4. Read More