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Chopra G, Brooker R. Don’t miss the missing ganglia – an unusual case of long segment hirschsprung disease. Am J Med Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9629(23)00340-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Mendoza Diaz A, Brooker R, Cibralic S, Murphy E, Woolfenden S, Eapen V. Adapting the 'First 2000 Days maternal and child healthcare framework' in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: ensuring equity in the new world. AUST HEALTH REV 2023; 47:72-76. [PMID: 36657451 DOI: 10.1071/ah22228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The purpose of this perspective article is to emphasise the importance of the 'First 2000 Days' policy of life from conception to age five, and to propose new directions in which the policy's implementation could be extended for the benefit of children and families. The proposed approach highlights principles of responsiveness, integration, sustainability and equity, specifying initiatives that embody the kind of innovation each principle aspires to. The article also proposes innovations in data collection and linkages that would strengthen the implementation of first 2000 days policies and frameworks. This perspective proposes a framework that could improve health systems implementation of services in the first 5 years of life, by proposing a well-coordinated continuum of services with integrated physical and digital solutions. This has the potential to transform how the health system monitors and responds to children and families' needs in the critical early years of life during and beyond the current pandemic.
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- Antonio Mendoza Diaz
- Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (ICAMHS), South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), NSW, Australia; and Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry South-West Sydney (AUCS), Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Early Life Determinants of Health, Maridulu Budyari Gumal (Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research, and Enterprise), Ingham Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry South-West Sydney (AUCS), Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Child Health, Health and Social Policy Branch - NSW Ministry of Health, NSW, Australia
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- Population Child Health Research Group, School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia; and Department of Community Child Health, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, NSW, Australia
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- Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (ICAMHS), South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), NSW, Australia; and Academic Unit of Child Psychiatry South-West Sydney (AUCS), Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia; and Early Life Determinants of Health, Maridulu Budyari Gumal (Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research, and Enterprise), Ingham Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Abbott PA, Brooker R, Hu W, Hampton S, Reath J. "I Just Had No Idea What It Was Like to Be in Prison and What Might Be Helpful": Educator and Learner Views on Clinical Placements in Correctional Health. Teach Learn Med 2020; 32:259-270. [PMID: 32064934 DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2020.1715804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Phenomenon: Correctional health services can provide quality learning experiences for medical students and graduate medical trainees, including through motivating learners to work with people involved with the justice system, and promoting understanding of the social determinants of health. Approach: We conducted 38 semi-structured interviews to examine the views of learners and educators on how to promote high quality clinical learning in correctional settings, with a focus on the Australian context. Participants included medical students; general practitioners who had undertaken graduate trainee placements; clinical staff involved in teaching and clinical supervision; and graduate program medical educators and university teachers from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Data were analyzed thematically. Findings: Clinical placements in correctional settings provided learning about the health of people involved in the justice system, but also beneficial clinical learning for working with a wide range of patients with complex health needs. Valued learnings included managing complex consultations, mental health and substance use disorders, and overcoming anxiety related to interacting with people in prison. Learner concerns included limited patient contact time, apprehension prior to placements, and stress related to experiences during the placements. This apprehension and stress could be mitigated by orientation and debriefing, and by appreciating healthcare professionals in correctional settings as advocates for their patients. Clinical supervision was perceived to be demanding in this context. Independent patient interaction was not usually possible for students and there could be short windows of time in which to provide direct patient care, making pauses for teaching difficult. Insights: Clinical placements in correctional health services provide experiential learning of direct relevance to medical student, and potentially to general practice trainee, curricula which is valuable even when learners do not have particular interest in correctional health. Furthermore, these placements may increase the capacity of the medical workforce to provide skilled care to other underserved populations. High quality learner and clinical supervisor experiences, and program scale and sustainability, require enhanced learning support systems through partnerships between correctional health services and education institutions. Required supports for learners include orientation to security arrangements, debriefing sessions which assist learners to distill their learning and to reflect on challenging experiences, and alternative learning opportunities for when direct patient consultations are not accessible. Supervisor teaching supports include shared teaching approaches in the correctional health clinics and added student support from university-based staff.
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- Penelope A Abbott
- Department of General Practice, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia
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- Department of General Practice, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia
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- Department of Medical Education, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia
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- Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Matraville, Australia
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- Department of General Practice, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, Australia
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Abbott P, Brooker R, Reath J. Managing the hope and worry of housing renewal-supporting well-being in the emerging community. Health Promot J Austr 2018; 30:344-349. [PMID: 30220094 DOI: 10.1002/hpja.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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ISSUE ADDRESSED Housing renewal is a common urban housing and development strategy internationally. An intended result is increased social inclusion and well-being of residents through public housing de-concentration. In this study, we examined challenges encountered during the process of housing renewal from the perspectives of community-based staff and volunteers. METHODS We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with housing and community workers, service managers and community volunteers who were working with residents experiencing housing renewal in an outer metropolitan estate in New South Wales. We analysed the data thematically. RESULTS Seventeen participants were interviewed in a mix of individual and group interviews. Housing workers uncovered substantial resident health and social support needs during housing assessments. Promoting access to services and supporting the mental health and social connectedness of residents into the future were seen as key goals and challenges. However, lack of clarity on which services and community resources would exist in the new neighbourhood at the completion of the renewal project made this more difficult, particularly when supporting the social housing residents who were remaining in the changing community. CONCLUSIONS Supporting the mental health and well-being of residents experiencing housing renewal is an important role of community-based workers, volunteers and service providers. This includes facilitating access to health care and other services and promoting social connectedness in the emerging community. Increased clarity on what community resources and services will be available subsequent to redevelopment will assist in these aims. SO WHAT?: Early knowledge of what community resources and services will be in place long term in communities undergoing housing renewal will allow staff and volunteers to better support the health and well-being of residents.
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- Penelope Abbott
- Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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Brooker R, Hu W, Reath J, Abbott P. Medical student experiences in prison health services and social cognitive career choice: a qualitative study. BMC Med Educ 2018; 18:3. [PMID: 29291725 PMCID: PMC5748951 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-017-1109-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND One of the purposes of undergraduate medical education is to assist students to consider their future career paths in medicine, alongside the needs of the societies in which they will serve. Amongst the most medically underserved groups of society are people in prison and those with a history of incarceration. In this study we examined the experiences of medical students undertaking General Practice placements in a prison health service. We used the theoretical framework of the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to explore the potential of these placements to influence the career choices of medical students. METHODS Questionnaire and interview data were collected from final year students, comprising pre and post placement questionnaire free text responses and post placement semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis, with reference to concepts from the SCCT Interest Model to further develop the findings. RESULTS Clinical education delivered in a prison setting can provide learning that includes exposure to a wide variety of physical and mental health conditions and also has the potential to stimulate career interest in an under-served area. While students identified many challenges in the work of a prison doctor, increased confidence (SCCT- Self-Efficacy) occurred through performance success within challenging consultations and growth in a professional approach to prisoners and people with a history of incarceration. Positive expectations (SCCT- Outcome Expectations) of fulfilling personal values and social justice aims and of achieving public health outcomes, and a greater awareness of work as a prison doctor, including stereotype rejection, promoted student interest in working with people in contact with the criminal justice system. CONCLUSION Placements in prison health services can stimulate student interest in working with prisoners and ex-prisoners by either consolidating pre-existing interest or expanding interest into a field they had not previously considered. An important aspect of such learning is the opportunity to overcome negative preconceptions of consultations with prisoners.
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- Ron Brooker
- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751 Australia
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751 Australia
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751 Australia
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751 Australia
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This article outlines an investigation of examiner perceptions of the effects of introducing criteria into music performance assessment procedures at a tertiary conservatorium of music. A qualitative analysis of transcripts of interviews with fifteen conservatorium staff identified key issues relating to the ways experienced examiners use criteria in music performance assessment. In discussing their music performance assessment strategies examiners described holistic and criteria-specific approaches. Some examiners felt using criteria helped them focus on important assessment issues and that criteria were useful for articulating desirable performance characteristics in feedback to students. Other examiners believed criteria-based assessment represented a narrow view which tended to interfere with their holistic assessments of music performance.
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- Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Brooker R, McKay M, Crabtree A, Wong H, Sripadam R. P-331 Organ sparing radiotherapy in rectal cancer: definitive chemoradiation is a safe and valid option. Ann Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv233.326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Callaghan TV, Johansson M, Heal OW, Saelthun NR, Barkved LJ, Bayfield N, Brandt O, Brooker R, Christiansen HH, Forchhammer M, Høye TT, Humlum O, Järvinen A, Jonasson C, Kohler J, Magnusson B, Meltofte H, Mortensen L, Neuvonen S, Pearce I, Rasch M, Turner L, Hasholt B, Huhta E, Leskinen E, Nielsen N, Siikamäki P. Environmental changes in the North Atlantic Region: SCANNET as a collaborative approach for documenting, understanding and predicting changes. Ambio 2004; Spec No 13:39-50. [PMID: 15575182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The lands surrounding the North Atlantic Region (the SCANNET Region) cover a wide range of climate regimes, physical environments and availability of natural resources. Except in the extreme North, they have supported human populations and various cultures since at least the end of the last ice age. However, the region is also important at a wider geographical scale in that it influences the global climate and supports animals that migrate between the Arctic and all the other continents of the world. Climate, environment and land use in the region are changing rapidly and projections suggest that global warming will be amplified there while increasing land use might dramatically reduce the remaining wilderness areas. Because much of the region is sparsely populated--if populated at all--observational records of past environmental changes and their impacts are both few and of short duration. However, it is becoming very important to record the changes that are now in progress, to understand the drivers of these changes, and to predict future consequences of the changes. To facilitate research into understanding impacts of global change on the lands of the North Atlantic Regions, and also to monitor changes in real time, an EU-funded network of research sites and infrastructures was formed in 2000: this was called SCANNET--SCANdinavian/North European NETwork of Terrestrial Field Bases. SCANNET currently consists of 9 core sites and 5 sites within local networks that together cover the broad range of current climate and predicted change in the region. Climate observations are well replicated across the network, whereas each site has tended to select particular environmental and ecological subjects for intensive observation. This provides diversity of both subject coverage and expertise. In this paper, we summarize the findings of SCANNET to-date and outline its information bases in order to increase awareness of data on environmental change in the North Atlantic Region. We also identify important gaps in our understanding and identify where the roles of existing infrastructures and activities represented by SCANNET can facilitate future research, monitoring and ground-truthing activities.
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Sandbach JF, Weissman C, Brooker R, Ilegbodu D, Asmar L. A phase II study of weekly docetaxel and carboplatin in stage IIIB (with effusion) or stage IV non-small cell lung cancer patients age < 65 and performance status 2. J Clin Oncol 2004. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2004.22.90140.7122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- US Oncology Research, Inc, Houston, TX
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An unusual case of endobronchial polyposis associated with extensive bronchiectasis in the context of cystic fibrosis (CF) has been described. A 15-yr-old female patient with CF underwent partial pneumonectomy for extensive bronchiectasis and frequent infective pulmonary exacerbations. Cylindrical bronchiectasis with associated purulent bronchitis and bronchiolitis, together with inflammatory polyposis, was noted in the resected lung. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of multiple endobronchial polyposis and may represent a rare complication of bronchiectasis in a patient with cystic fibrosis. On-going infection and the cellular composition of the polyps are discussed in relation to their possible aetiological relevance and relationship to upper respiratory tract polyps.
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- C Roberts
- Dept of Pathology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK
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McCall WV, Zvara D, Brooker R, Arias L. Effect of esmolol pretreatment on EEG seizure morphology in RUL ECT. Convuls Ther 1997; 13:175-80. [PMID: 9342133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Intravenous beta-blockers are an effective means of controlling heart rate and blood pressure during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but have been shown to decrease seizure duration. While the importance of seizure duration to the antidepressant response of ECT grows less certain, there is growing evidence that seizure morphology predicts the antidepressant effect of ECT. This study examined the impact of esmolol pretreatment on seizure morphology. Eighteen depressed patients (6 men, 12 women; 69 +/- 12.8 years old) received ECT with and without esmolol pretreatment in a randomized, blinded crossover design. The seizures were blindly rated for duration of motor convulsion, duration of electroencephalogram (EEG) seizure, degree of seizure regularity, and degree of postictal EEG suppression. Esmolol shortened the duration of the motor convulsion and degraded the quality of the ictal regularity. Routine administration of intravenous esmolol before ECT may cause a decrease in ictal regularity. Careful consideration should be given to the potential benefits of esmolol versus the deleterious effect on the electrophysiologic process. Esmolol may still be indicated on a case-by-case basis for extreme tachycardia or hypertension associated with ECT, and presumably poses no problem for the therapeutic effect of ECT if given after the seizure is over.
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- W V McCall
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, U.S.A
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The records of 15 cases of hydrops fetalis consecutively delivered at our institution were reviewed to determine the accuracy of antenatal diagnosis and whether antenatal diagnostic techniques yielded information useful in predicting outcome. All 15 cases were detected antenatally, five were due to rhesus haemolytic disease and 10 were non-immune hydrops. All the infants required active resuscitation. Ten infants eventually died, two had immune hydrops fetalis and 8 non-immune hydrops. Seven infants had pleural effusions, all had been detected antenatally. The presence of pleural effusions did not influence mortality. All structural abnormalities were accurately detected in those patients seen prior to labour and there were no survivors in the group of infants so affected. We conclude that the mortality of non-immune hydrops fetalis remains high and that antenatal diagnosis of this condition is accurate and provides useful prognostic information.
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- P J Thompson
- Department of Child Health, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Morell RC, Foreman AS, Kashtan HI, Brooker R. A convenient adaptation of the control syringe. Reg Anesth 1992; 17:115. [PMID: 1581254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Salbutamol infusion, 4 micrograms/kg in 5 ml of water infused for 20 minutes, was given to treat hyperkalaemia (potassium level > 6.0 mmol/l) in 10 critically ill preterm infants (median gestational age 26 weeks). Seven infants had acute renal failure, two had persistent metabolic acidosis without renal failure and the remaining infant had a combination of acute renal failure and persistent metabolic acidosis. No infant developed a tachycardia or became hyperglycaemic in response to the infusion. Seven of the 10 infants ultimately died but this was at a mean of 9 days following the infusion and as a consequence of complications due to their extreme prematurity or major congenital abnormality. In response to the infusion the potassium level fell in 7 infants with acute renal failure by a median of 1.1 mmol/l (range 0.7-1.8) at one hour but in the three infants with a persistent metabolic acidosis, the potassium level continued to rise. We conclude that salbutamol infusion achieves, without side-effects, at least a temporary reduction in hyperkalaemia in preterm infants with renal failure, but not metabolic acidosis. Its effect is of sufficient duration to allow ample time for definitive therapy to be instituted and thus may be a useful alternative for infants in whom the possible hypoglycaemic side-effects of glucose and insulin should be avoided.
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- A Greenough
- Department of Child Health, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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Bradshaw AD, Brooker R, Corder M. Environmental Economy. J Appl Ecol 1987. [DOI: 10.2307/2403918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Brooker R, Duffield J, Rooke H. Primary nursing project at Concord: there is a better way. Aust Nurses J 1979; 9:54-7. [PMID: 260670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Burns E, Brooker R. The use and further application of film triggers in nursing education and research. Aust Nurses J 1978; 8:40-1, 51. [PMID: 251097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Brooker R. Professionalism/elitism and nursing education. Aust Nurses J 1978; 7:26-8, 49. [PMID: 247969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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