Vijaya Sundararajan
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Group Leader
Associate Professor Vijaya Sundararajan -
Medical Statistician
Ms Sara Vogrin
Research Overview
The Health Outcomes Research Group seeks to understand the performance and outcomes of health care using contemporary epidemiological, statistical and health economic methods.
Clinically, it focuses on the spectrum of chronic disease from diagnosis to the end of life, including ischaemic heart disease, stroke, diabetes, mental health conditions and infectious diseases. It does not lose sight of the social determinants of health through its work regarding important groups in the community such as culturally and linguistically diverse people and those experiencing homelessness.
Through the Centre for Research Methods, the group provides expert statistical advice and analysis to researchers in the Eastern Hill Precinct. The service is offered on a fee-for-service basis. The consulting fee for each project is based on a discussion at the initial meeting with the researcher, with a formal fee estimate agreed upon prior to the commencement of work.
Services
Through the Centre for Research Methods, the group provides expert statistical advice and analysis to researchers in the Eastern Hill Precinct. The service is offered on a fee-for-service basis. The consulting fee for each project is based on a discussion at the initial meeting with the researcher, with a formal fee estimate agreed upon prior to the commencement of work.
Staff
- Associate Professor Vijaya Sundararajan
- Ms Sara Vogrin, Medical Statistician, completed her medical education (2010) and training in Slovenia and then received her Master of Biostatistics at the University of Melbourne in 2016. Sara has had 114 publications since 2016, evidence of her outstanding collaborations as a statistician.
Collaborators
- Professor Jennifer Philip, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne
- Professor Tony Blakely, Population Interventions Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
- Professor Adam Elshaug, Centre for Health Policy, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
- Professor Ed Oakley , Safer Care Victoria
- Professor Hude Quan, Centre for Health Informatics and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Classification, Terminology and Standards, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
- Professor Rachel Huxley , Faculty of Health, Deakin University
- Associate Professor Nadine Andrew , Peninsula Clinical School, Monash University
- Associate Professor Monique Kilkenny , Monash Data Futures Institute, Victorian Heart Institute, Monash University
- Associate Professor Jongsay Yong , Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research
- Associate Professor Isuru Ranasinghe, University of Queensland
- Dr. Jennie Hutton, Northern Health and the University of Melbourne
- Dr. Ali Lakhani , Department of Public Health, La Trobe University
- Inclusive Health, St Vincent’s Health Australia
- Safer Care Victoria
Funding
- NHMRC
- MRFF
- Canadian Institute for Health Research
- St Vincent’s Research Endowment Fund
- La Trobe University Building Healthy Communities Research Focus Area
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- St Vincent’s Health Australia
- Avant Foundation
- Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation
- Victorian Cancer Agency
- BUPA Research Foundation
- Pfizer Australia Cardiovascular Lipid Research Grant
- Australian Commonwealth Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, National Collaborative Infrastructure Strategy
- Victorian Innovation Strategy
- American Cancer Society
- United States National Institutes of Health,
- United States Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Research Publications
1. Quan H, Sundararajan V, Halfon P, Fong A, Burnand B, Luthi JC, Saunders LD, Beck CA, Feasby TE, Ghali WA. Coding algorithms for defining comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data. Med Care. 2005;43(11):1130-9.
2. Sundararajan V, Macisaac CM, Presneill JJ, Cade JF, Visvanathan K. Epidemiology of sepsis in Victoria, Australia. Crit Care Med. 2005;33(1):71-80.
3. Van Doornum S, Brand C, King B, Sundararajan V. Increased case fatality rates following a first acute cardiovascular event in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2006;54(7):2061-8.
4. Sobey CG, Judkins CP, Sundararajan V, Phan TG, Drummond GR, Srikanth VK. Risk of Major Cardiovascular Events in People with Down Syndrome. PLoS One. 2015;10(9):e0137093.
5. Russell B, Vogrin S, Philip J, Hennessy-Anderson N, Collins A, Burchell J, Le B, Brand C, Hudson P, Sundararajan V. Novel application of discrete choice experiment methodology to understand how clinicians around the world triage palliative care needs: A research protocol. Palliat Support Care. 2019;17(1):66-73.
6. Sasadeusz J, Grigg A, Hughes PD, Lim SL, Lucas M, McColl G, McLachlan SA, Peters MG, Shackel N, Slavin M, Sundararajan V, Thompson A, Doyle J, Rickard J, De Cruz P, Gish RG, Visvanathan K. Screening and Prophylaxis to Prevent Hepatitis B Reactivation: Patients with Hematological and Solid Tumor Malignancies. Clin Liver Dis. 2019;23(3):511-9.
7. Sundararajan V, Thrift AG, Phan TG, Choi PM, Clissold B, Srikanth VK. Trends over time in the risk of stroke after an incident transient ischemic attack. Stroke. 2014;45(11):3214-8.
8. Sundararajan V, Brown K, Henderson T, Hindle D. Effects of increased private health insurance on hospital utilisation in Victoria. Aust Health Rev. 2004;28(3):320-9.
9. Sundararajan V, Bunker SJ, Begg S, Marshall R, McBurney H. Attendance rates and outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation in Victoria, 1998. Med J Aust. 2004;180(6):268-71.
10. McAuley SA, Trawley S, Vogrin S, Ward GM, Fourlanos S, Grills CA, Lee MH, Alipoor AM, O'Neal DN, O'Regan NA, Sundararajan V, Colman PG, MacIsaac RJ. Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery Versus Sensor-Augmented Pump Therapy in Older Adults With Type 1 Diabetes (ORACL): A Randomized, Crossover Trial. Diabetes Care. 2022;45(2):381-90.
11. Peng M, Sundararajan V, Williamson T, Minty EP, Smith TC, Doktorchik CTA, Quan H. Exploration of association rule mining for coding consistency and completeness assessment in inpatient administrative health data. J Biomed Inform. 2018;79:41-7.
12. Andrew NE, Sundararajan V, Thrift AG, Kilkenny MF, Katzenellenbogen J, Flack F, Gattellari M, Boyd JH, Anderson P, Grabsch B, Lannin NA, Johnston T, Chen Y, Cadilhac DA. Addressing the challenges of cross-jurisdictional data linkage between a national clinical quality registry and government-held health data. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2016;40(5):436-42.
13. Seastres RJ, Hutton J, Zordan R, Moore G, Mackelprang J, Kiburg KV, Sundararajan V. Long-term effects of homelessness on mortality: a 15-year Australian cohort study. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2020;44(6):476-81.