Madeleen van der Merwe

Madeleen van der Merwe
Bond University · Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare

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Education
January 2019 - June 2021
University of Queensland
Field of study
  • M Biostatistics

Publications

Publications (8)
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Objective: To determine the validity of telephone or video interviews, compared to face-to-face, for psychiatric diagnosis. Data Sources: We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO from inception to June 22, 2023, and performed backward and forward citation analysis on all included studies on August 3, 2023. Study Selection: We included primary stud...
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Objective: We compared the impact of accessing healthcare (1) by telehealth (via telephone or video) vs face-to-face; and (2) by telephone vs video telehealth care, on escalation to emergency care. Methods: We searched Medline, Embase and Cochrane CENTRAL to 24 July 2023; and conducted a citation analysis on 19 September 2023. We included random...
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Background Of over 8,000 recorded randomised trials addressing COVID-19, around 80% were of treatments, and 17% have reported results. Approximately 1% were adaptive or platform trials, with 25 having results available, across 29 journal articles and 10 preprint articles. Methods We conducted an extensive literature review to address four question...
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Objective To identify healthcare professionals' knowledge, self‐reported use, and documentation of clinical decision aids (CDAs) in a large ED in Australia, to identify behavioural determinants influencing the use of CDAs, and healthcare professionals preferences for integrating CDAs into the electronic medical record (EMR) system. Methods Healthc...
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Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the association between gender and perceived gender equity in the critical care workforce and other health specialties. Design and setting: We conducted an online cross-sectional survey between September and November 2020. Data on demographics and perceptions of equity including the represe...
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Objective: Clinical decision aids (CDAs) can help clinicians with patient risk assessment. However, there is little data on CDA calculation, interpretation and documentation in real-world ED settings. The ABCD2 score (range 0-7) is a CDA used for patients with transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and assesses risk of stroke, with a score of 0-3 being...
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Shared decision making near end of life is a balancing act of communicating prognosis to patients and their surrogates/families and engaging them in considering value-concordant management choices. This cross-sectional survey aimed to determine the format in which older patients with chronic illnesses would prefer to receive prognostic information...

Network

Cited By
    • World Health Organisation; Academy of Science of South Africa; University of Toronto; University of KwaZulu-Natal
    • Bond University
    • Hôpital Ambroise Paré – Hôpitaux universitaires Paris Ile-de-France Ouest
    • National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Japan
    • Centre for Medical Sciences - CISMed, University of Trento, Via S. Maria Maddalena 1, 38122 Trento, Italy;