Exploring the Costs of Hospital and Emergency Department Utilisation in the First Three Years After Diagnosis for Adults Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer in Queensland, Australia.

Objective: To quantify costs incurred by the health system for hospital episodes and emergency department (ED) presentations for pancreatic cancer patients within the first three years after diagnosis in Queensland, Australia.

Study Settings And Design: Using a linked administrative dataset, CancerCostMod, which includes cancer diagnoses from the Queensland Cancer Registry (1st July 2011-30th June 2015) and linked Queensland Health Admitted Patient Data Collection and ED Information Systems records (1st July 2011-30th June 2018), we assessed costs for adults diagnosed with primary pancreatic cancer (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision: C25). Costs (in Australian dollars) were assigned using national public costs and private hospital charge datasets for the relevant year.

Eyewitness suspect identification: six claims regarding the state of the science.

Psychological science on eyewitness suspect identification has a long and rich history. A few decades ago, modal expert opinion emphasised eyewitnesses' fallibility, and it was widely held that identifications made with high confidence are only slightly more likely to be accurate than those made with low confidence. The authors of this invited Contemporary Discussion agree that current science compels a more nuanced perspective in which the relationship between eyewitnesses' confidence and their accuracy varies predictably depending on specifics of how the suspect was selected, how the identification test was designed, when and how it was administered, and when confidence was assessed.

Predictors of Nurses' and Behavioral Health Professionals' Motivation to Provide Alcohol Use-Related Care: A Secondary Analysis.

Background: Alcohol use continues to be a global public health concern that significantly contributes to economic burden and increased morbidity and mortality rates. Healthcare professionals, including nurses and behavioral health professionals, play a vital role in alcohol use prevention, screening, and management. The purpose of this study is to identify nurses' and behavioral health professionals' demographic and clinical characteristics and professional attitudes as predictors of their motivation toward providing care related to alcohol use.

Evaluating the combined effect of antifibrinolytics and estrogen on the risk of thromboembolism: a scoping review.

Background: Up to 30% of reproductive-aged women seek medical attention for heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB). Estrogen-containing contraceptives and antifibrinolytics are first-line treatments. Despite evidence for these agents for HMB and for antifibrinolytics in other high-estrogen states (eg, postpartum), many antifibrinolytic monographs warn against use with concurrent estrogen-containing contraception given theoretical thromboembolic risk.

End-of-life healthcare use and associated costs for First Nations Australians diagnosed with cancer in Queensland, Australia.

Purpose: Cancer significantly impacts First Nations Australians, with higher incidence and lower survival rates. However, understanding of end-of-life (EOL) service use and costs in this population is limited. We aimed to assess EOL healthcare utilisation and costs for First Nations cancer patients in Queensland, Australia.