Evidence Week 07 | Royal Melbourne Hospital

Below can be found the excellent presentations given at Melbourne Health's Evidence Week, 2007. To see a presentation, just click on the presentation title; to see more about the presenter, click on the presenter's name.

Opening Ceremony

Geoff McColl	Evidence into practice: introduction (talk)
Colin Masters	The National Health Committee
Janet Wale	Evidence: a Cochrane consumer perspective

Departmental Evidence-Based teaching

Anastasia Hutchinson	EBM teaching: Nursing
Kirstie Galbraith	EBM teaching: Pharmacy
Peter Greenberg	EBM teaching: General Medicine
Kathleen Steele	EBM teaching: Diabetes
Carol Jewell	EBM teaching: Allied Health

"Searching for evidence on the run"

Peter Greenberg	Part 1
Terence Harrison	Part 2

Examples of "Evidence into Practice"

Kate Leslie	Perioperative Beta-Blockade
Julie Miller	Management of thyroid nodules
Ornella Clavisi	GEM Initiative
Karin Thursky	Computerised decision-support in guideline implementation
Vaidyanathan Swaminathan	Evidence at work in Mental Health
Elisa Ilarda	Management of clinical aggression
Fary Khan	Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for MS
Louisa Ng	Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes following joint replacement at hip and knee in chronic arthropathy (file too large for Powerfront)
Peter Morley	Evidence-based guideline development in resuscitation: the international consensus process (file not available)
Catherine Voutier	Horizon Scanning: informing your decisions
Lisa Barker	Pre-operative oral immuno-nutrition therapy on postoperative outcomes in gastro-intestinal surgery
Steve Davis	Thrombolysis & stroke units
Kirstie Galbraith	Paracetamol toxicity
Anastasia Hutchinson	Respiratory self-management education for clients with COPD
Laura Browning	Evaluation of an intensive mobilisation programme, following major abdominal surgery, administered by physiotherapy assistants
Anne McGann	Dizziness - from an ad hoc approach to a Vestibular Rehabilitation Service
Emily FitzGerald & Karin Palmer	Making a Diabetes Young persons' Clinic work
Mary Hemming	Putting it all together - evidence, context, clinical reality

Hypothetical: "Managing pneumonia - mapping the evidence" panelists: Debbie Munro, Colin Dawson, Peter Greenberg, Mary Hemming and Sophie Hill

Note: Melbourne Health's Evidence Week, 2007 was organised by Peter Greenberg, Peter Morley, Majella Pugh and Terence Harrison (all under the auspices of the Royal Melbourne Hospital's Health Sciences Library).

Evidence Direct: Evidence Week '07 presentations