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Telethon Institute Research project in nation's top 10

Telethon Institute Research project in nation's top 10

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Sustained participation in annual continuous quality improvement activities improves quality of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

To determine whether participation in the CQI Audit and Best Practice for Chronic Disease programme improved care and outcomes for Indigenous children.

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Local business to support Aboriginal ear health program

Every year 650,000 Australian children suffer from recurrent or chronic middle ear infections called otitis media (OM).

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Proactive measures at Banksia Hill welcomed

We welcome the Cook Labor Government’s plan to introduce proactive measures to improve the safety and welfare of children and young people within the State’s youth justice system.

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Childcare Use and Its Role in Indigenous Child Development: Evidence from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children in Australia

Relatively disadvantaged children might benefit more from attending childcare, as indicated by the positive estimated effects found for those who never attended childcare

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Translating aboriginal genomics — four letters closing the gap

Establishing a genomic reference for Australian Aboriginal populations

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BEAT-CF: Bayesian Evidence-Adaptive Tool to optimise management of Cystic Fibrosis

An innovative response-adaptive approach to driving improvements in health outcomes, applied to cystic fibrosis.

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The long-term effects of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health: A Pregnancy Cohort Study followed for 14 years

To determine whether there was an independent effect of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health

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Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and increased risk of stillbirth

The objective was to investigate the association between heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and stillbirth.

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Does machine learning have a role in the prediction of asthma in children?

Asthma is the most common chronic lung disease in childhood. There has been a significant worldwide effort to develop tools/methods to identify children's risk for asthma as early as possible for preventative and early management strategies. Unfortunately, most childhood asthma prediction tools using conventional statistical models have modest accuracy, sensitivity, and positive predictive value.