Grassroots Innovation for Quality Improvement

I helped facilitate this workshop at the Wonca Asia-Pacific Conference 2019, Kyoto, held at the Kyoto International Conference Centre on 15 May 2019.

MacIsaac MB, McLean K, Morgan M, Jones F, Goodyear-Smith F, Tam CWM, Saito M. Grassroots innovation for quality improvement [workshop]. Wonca Asia-Pacific Conference 2019. Kyoto International Conference Centre. 2019 May 15.

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Isopropyl alcohol nasal inhalation for nausea in adults

An abridged version of this article was published in the May 2019 issue of Medical Observer.

Printed edition:
Tam M. Does it pass the sniff test? Medical Observer. 2019 May 9. pp. 40-41. (PDF)

Online version on AusDoc.Plus platform:
Can inhaling ‘alco-wipes’ ease acute nausea?
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Quoted in Medical Observer news feature article, “Summary dismissal”

I was interviewed and quoted in this news feature article by Emily Dunn, on some of the problems with discharge summaries.

Quotations in:
Dunn E. Summary dismissal. Medical Observer. 2019 May 9. pp. 20-23. (PDF)

HealthPathways implementation on type 2 diabetes: A programmatic evaluation (HIT2 evaluation)

This paper on the evaluation of the South Western Sydney type 2 diabetes HealthPathways implementation was published in the Journal of Integrated Care. (PDF)

Chow JSF, Gonzalez-Arce VE, Tam CWM, Neville B, McDougall A. HealthPathways implementation on type 2 diabetes A programmatic evaluation (HIT2 evaluation). J Integr Care 2019 Apr 15;27(2):153-62.

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EMDR as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder

This article was published in the March 2019 issue of Medical Observer under the title “Eyeing the past to end trauma”, and online under the title “Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing for PTSD”. (PDF)

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Oral cimetidine as the treatment of common warts

This article was published in the December 2018 / January 2019 issue of Medical Observer under the title “What works for warts?” (PDF)

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