Recent Publications

Recent publications from the Department of General Practice and Primary Care

Adams, L. A., Kemp, W. W., Muller, K. R., Powell, E. E., Roberts, S. K., Bertot, L. C., Best, S., Deed, G., Emery, J. D., Hocking, S. L., Jones, G. R., Lubel, J. S., Sheils, S., Twigg, S. M., Watts, G. F., & George, J. (2025). Assessment of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in primary care: a consensus statement summary. Medical Journal of Australia. doi:10.5694/mja2.70008

Allen-Leap, M., Taft, A., Young, F., Hooker, L., & Hegarty, K. (2025). The HARMONY trial: assessing general practitioner knowledge, attitudes and confidence following culturally safe domestic violence and abuse training. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(3). doi:10.1071/py24210

Anderson, M., Letina, S., McCann, M., Milicev, J., Dibben, G., Macdonald, A., Mitchell, K., Moore, L., Olsen, J. R., Palmer, V. J., Rigby, B. P., Simpson, S. A., Thomson, M., & Long, E. M. Y. (2025). Social network characteristics associated with mid-to-older aged adults' co-engagement in physical activity. Plos One, 20(5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0319981

Anneliese Willems, Alvin H Chong, Amanda Tapley, Sandra Grace, Parker Magin, Australian General practitioners’ confidence in dermatology diagnosis and management: cross-sectional survey, Family Practice, Volume 42, Issue 4, August 2025, cmaf053, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmaf053

Banfield, M., & Palmer, V. J. (2025). Embedding lived experience in mental health research: what we need to pack (and unpack) for the future in mental health research and translation. Bmj Open, 15(5). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098557

Beccia, C., Hunter, B., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., & White, M. (2024). Exploring the User Acceptability and Feasibility of a Clinical Decision Support Tool Designed to Facilitate Timely Diagnosis of New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes in Children: Qualitative Interview Study Among General Practitioners. Jmir Formative Research, 8. doi:10.2196/60411

Bourchier, L., Bittleston, H., Malta, S., Temple-Smith, M., & Hocking, J. S. (2025). Older Adults' Behaviors and Preferences for Seeking Sexual Health Information. International Journal of Sexual Health. doi:10.1080/19317611.2025.2527050

Bravo, R.G., Alonso, C.F., Fischer, V.J., Othman, S., Neil, J. (2025). Remote Consultation on Family Violence in Primary Care. In: Demurtas, J. (eds) Remote Consultation in Primary Care. Tele-Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89661-3_24

Caddy, C., Temple‐Smith, M., & Coombe, J. (2025). ‘That Doesn't Sound Right’: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Information Seeking Behaviour of Current Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptive Users in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. doi:10.1111/ajo.70044

Caddy, C., Temple-Smith, M., & Coombe, J. (2025). Do Women Feel Unprepared for the Experience of an Intrauterine Device Insertion: Findings From an Australian Study. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, June(n/a). doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.70023

Cai, C., Jong, M., Ng, Y. Y., Manski-Nankervis, J. A. E., Tham, K. Y., Rajalingam, P., Ang, B. K., Cleland, J. A., Sung, J., & Fan, X. Y. (2025, Feb 25-Mar 04). Developing a Postgraduate Program for AI in Medicine with Kern's Six-Step Curriculum Development Approach in Singapore. Paper presented at the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, PA.

Chan, R. J., Crawford-Williams, F., Koczwara, B., Mann, G. B., Eakin, E., Turner, J., Krishnasamy, M., Collins, L. G., Skerman, H., Hemming, K., Hart, N. H., Emery, J., Crowe, B., Patford, K., Mahony, J., Kristunas, C., Blanchard, G., Healey, L., Sanmugarajah, J., Liang, R., Craft, P., Shorthouse, A., McCaffery, R., Azer, M., & Yates, P. (2025). Implementation and effectiveness of a nurse-enabled, shared-care follow-up model for early breast cancer survivors (The IBIS-Survivorship Study): protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial. Bmj Open, 15(6). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103341

Chima, S., Hunter, B., Martinez-Gutierrez, J., Lumsden, N., Nelson, C., Boyle, D., Somasundaram, K., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., & Emery, J. (2025). Implementation of a Quality Improvement and Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care: Process Evaluation. Jmir Cancer, 11. doi:10.2196/65461

Hiscock, H., Khano, S., Sanci, L., Moore, C., Dalzeil, K., Freed, G., Boyle, D., Le, J., Morris, T. M., Germano, S., Wheeler, K., Liaw, S. T., & Lingam, R. (2025). Impact of an integrated general practitioner(GP)- paediatrician model on GP hospital referrals and GP paediatric care: a stepped wedge trial. International Journal of Integrated Care, 25. doi:10.5334/ijic.ICIC24108

Hiscock, H., Khano, S., Sanci, L., Moore, C., Dalziel, K., Freed, G., Boyle, D., Le, J., Meyers Morris, T., Liaw, S.-T., & Lingam, R. (2025). Paediatric care in general practice: Case mix, referral patterns and healthcare costs. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(6), 347-355. doi:10.31128/ajgp-04-24-7227

Hodgins, M., Sohn, J., Crespo-Gonzalez, C., Morris, T., Zurynski, Y., Khano, S., Sanci, L., Liaw, T., Freed, G., Goodger, B., Hiscock, H., & Lingam, R. (2025). Reterritorialising paediatric care in general practice clinics through a GP-paediatrician integrated care model. Ssm-Qualitative Research in Health, 8. doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100595

Howell, J., Emery, J. D., Roberts, S., Thompson, A. J., Ng, M., George, J., Leggett, B. A., Tse, E., Nguyen, B., Combo, T., & Wigg, A. J. (2025). Opportunities to improve surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia. doi:10.5694/mja2.52691

King, A. J., Latt, P. M., Soe, N. N., Temple-Smith, M., Fairley, C. K., Chow, E. P. F., & Phillips, T. R. (2025). User experiences of an AI application for predicting risk of sexually transmitted infections. Digital Health, 10. doi:10.1177/20552076241289646

King, A. J., Soe, N. N., Latt, P. M., Zhang, L., Temple-Smith, M., Maddaford, K., Fairley, C. K., Chow, E. P. F., & Phillips, T. R. (2025). Sexual health service users' perspectives on artificial intelligence applications for identification of lesions associated with sexually transmissible infections: A qualitative study. Digital Health, 11. doi:10.1177/20552076251361749

Kirk, E., Mundy, L., Lee, E., Lundie, B., Laing, N., Archibald, A. D., Newson, A. J., Mina, K., Carpenter, K., Neas, K., King, R., Ferrie, M., Lunke, S., Boughtwood, T., Delatycki, M. B., Emery, J., Mountain, H., Hui, L. S., Dive, L., Farrar, M. A., & Massie, J. (2025). Guidelines for reproductive genetic carrier screening for cystic fibrosis, fragile X syndrome and spinal muscular atrophy. Pathology, 57(5), 539-545. doi:10.1016/j.pathol.2025.02.004

Lamb, K., Fiolet, R., Broadhurst, K., De Silva, H. S., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Sailing Into Uncharted Territory: Victim Survivors' Perspectives on Some of the Tensions of Engagement as Partners in Co-Design Research. Violence against Women. doi:10.1177/10778012251362227

Lee, A., de Mendonca, L., McCarthy, D., Nelson, C., Rafiq, M., Venning, B., Chima, S., Daly, D., Fishman, G., Kearney, C., Hunter, B., Lim, F. S., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., Nicholson, B. D., Emery, J., & Martinez-Gutierrez, J. (2025). Primary care patients presenting with unexpected weight loss in Australian general practices: replication of a diagnostic accuracy study. Bmj Open, 15(7). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-104690

Leizerovitz, R., Williams, I., Laughlin, A., & Sanci, L. (2025). Adolescent health presentations to Victorian general practice: a descriptive study using electronic medical records. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(4).

Mathews, B., Hegarty, K. L., MacMillan, H. L., Madzoska, M., Erskine, H. E., Pacella, R., Scott, J. G., Thomas, H., Meinck, F., Higgins, D., Lawrence, D. M., Haslam, D., Roetman, S., Malacova, E., & Cubitt, T. (2025). The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey. The Medical journal of Australia, 222(9), 440-448. doi:10.5694/mja2.52660

Mazza, D., & Emery, J. (2025). The early detection of breast cancer: An update from the Red book. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(5).

McIntyre, N. A., Lau, P., & Ng, D. T. K. (2025). Straight from the teacher's mouth: The value of own-perspective gaze-elicited think-aloud for understanding culture-specific teacher expertise. Learning and Instruction, 99. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102170

McLindon, E., Kyei-Nimakoh, M., Giles, F. C., FitzPatrick, K. M., Tarzia, L., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Timelines of psychological, physical and sexual intimate partner violence among a nationally representative sample of Australian women. Women's health (London, England), 21, 17455057251329640-17455057251329640. doi:10.1177/17455057251329640

Meyers Morris, T., Sanci, L., Rudkin, A., Moore, C., Dalziel, K., Liaw, S.-T., Goodger, B., Freed, G., Wheeler, K., Germano, S., Le, J., Khano, S., Hodgins, M., Hiscock, H., & Lingam, R. (2025). Intervention overuse in paediatric care in Australian metropolitan general practice. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(6), 378-386. doi:10.31128/ajgp-09-24-7399

Morris, T., Sanci, L., Rudkin, A., Moore, C., Dalziel, K., Liaw, T., Goodger, B., Freed, G., Wheeler, K., Germano, S., Le, J., Khano, S., Hodgins, M., Hiscock, H., & Lingam, R. (2025). Intervention overuse in paediatric care in Australian metropolitan general practice. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(6), 378-386.

Neil, J, Case 1 Anushka has abdominal pains, Check Unit 624 July 2025 Abuse and violence in families. https://www.racgp.org.au/check/check-issues/2025/abuse-and-violence-in-families

Petzke, D., Hallinan, C. M., Trevena, J., & Manski-Nankervis, J. A. (2025). Exploration of chronic kidney disease screening, diagnosis and management in Australian general practice using electronic medical record data. Bmc Nephrology, 26(1). doi:10.1186/s12882-025-04345-3

Ramirez-Duran, D. & Kern, M.L. (2025). Exploring wellbeing profiles, mindfulness, compassion and personality traits in regular Ashtanga yoga practitioners: A cluster analysis. Mindfulness, 16(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02642-4

Ramirez-Duran, D., Kern, M. L., & Stokes, H. (2025). From Practice to Lifestyle: Conceptualisations of Yoga in Regular Ashtanga Yoga Practitioners Using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1582275. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1582275

Taft, A. J., Young, F., Hegarty, K. L., Yelland, J., Mazza, D., Boyle, D., Norman, R., García-Moreno, C., Nguyen, C., Li, X., Pokharel, B., Leap, M. A., & Feder, G. (2025). Baseline cohort data from HARMONY, a cluster randomised controlled trial of culturally safe domestic violence management in general practice. BMC primary care, 26(1). doi:10.1186/s12875-025-02890-2

Thuraisingam, S., Marasinghe, D. H., Barrick, K., Aghajafari, F., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., Dowsey, M. M., Quan, H. D., Williamson, T., & Garies, S. (2025). Comparing the Quality of Primary Care Electronic Health Record Data in Australia and Canada: Case Study in Osteoarthritis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27. doi:10.2196/69631

Tran, Y., Cabezas, M., Tran, F., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., Jonnagaddala, J., Tang, D. N., Sinha, K., Alam, M. N. N., Monaghan, J., Donald, A., Mitchell, R., Crossley, M., Selvadurai, N., & Gopinath, B. (2025). A protocol for the HEaring Impairment Data Infrastructure (HEIDI) study. Plos One, 20(5). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0320294