This list is not exhaustive, new projects will be added regularly
Clinical scaphoid fracture management
Project name: Clinical scaphoid fracture management
Location: This project is available to Toowoomba students only
Project type: Chart audits, clinical research involving patients, quantitative methods
Supervisor: Danielle Edgar, Nurse Practitioner
Anticipated project duration: 6 weeks
Project summary:
This evaluation address's specific outcomes related to the objectives of a new clinical management strategy for patient’s diagnosed with a clinical scaphoid fracture. The change to clinical practice introduces CT imaging at initial point of care in the ED. Data has been collected over the past 18months, with the evaluation comparing the service pre and post implementation. The change in clinical management is expected to improve implications related to overtreatment and cost effectiveness for both patient and health service. Development of this change of practice has required collaboration between ED, Orthopaedics and Radiology Departments.
Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.
Prothrombinex-VF for chronic liver disease - Friend or Foe
Project name: Prothrombinex-VF for chronic liver disease - Friend or Foe
Location: Remote
Project type: Chart audits, literature/systematic review, and mixed-methods
Supervisor: Dr Akmez Latona (Emergency consultant, LifeFlight)
Anticipated project duration: 6 months
Project summary:
Management of coagulopathy in chronic liver disease (CLD) poses a challenge for critical care physicians. Prothrombinex®-VF is a low volume product with rapid onset of action. Evidence for its efficacy and safety in CLD is limited and cases of acute intravascular coagulation and fibrinolysis (AICF) and/or disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) have been reported. Our objective is to evaluate the role of Prothrombinex®-VF in reversal of coagulopathy and the incidence AICF/DIC, thromboembolic events and mortality.
Note: This project is only suitable for final year medical students and proficiency with Microsoft Excel is required.
Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.
How long before we get it right? Appropriate and inappropriate imaging in Paediatric Acute UTI
Project name: How long before we get it right? Appropriate and inappropriate imaging in Paediatric Acute UTI
Location: Central Queensland (Gladstone, Yeppoon, and Emerald)
Project type: Chart Audits
Supervisor: Assoc/Prof Sunday Pam (Head, Rockhampton Rural Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland)
Anticipated project duration: Minimum three weeks data collection
Project summary:
Assessing the patterns of imaging in acute UTI in children over a 10-year period in CQHHS involving 4 major hospitals. Over 50% of the data has been collected and a students are required who can collect data in Gladstone, Yeppoon, and Emerald.
Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.
Impact of the Vulnerable Communities Group on the Darling Downs community
Project name: Impact of the Vulnerable Communities Group on the Darling Downs community
Location: Toowoomba
Project type: Qualitative/mixed-methods
Supervisor: Shirley-Anne Gardiner (Executive Director, Toowoomba Hospital)
Anticipated project duration: 24 months
Project summary:
The Vulnerable Communities Group (VCG) was established during the peak of COVID-19 to bring organisations together to work through pandemic-induced challenges. The group consists of over 40 organisations and continues to meet till date, working through issues faced in the community such as homelessness, domestic violence, issues faced by the refugee population and health inequities, to name a few. A preliminary evaluation of the VCG was conducted and findings published in 2021 in the Australian Health Review journal - https://www.publish.csiro.au/ah/AH21230.
The proposed study will investigate the impact of the VCG on the Darling Downs community.
Enquiries: To enquire about any of the available projects, please email rcsrc@uq.edu.au with the project title as the subject line.