Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Association Between Preoperative Benzodiazepine Use and Postoperative Opioid Use and Health Care Costs

Rishel, CA; Zhang, Y; Sun, EC (JAMA Network, 2020-10-27)

Importance The association between preoperative benzodiazepine use and long-term postoperative outcomes is not well understood. Objective To characterize the association between preoperative benzodiazepine use and ...
How sensitive are avoidable emergency department attendances to primary care quality? Retrospective observational study.

Parkinson, B; Meacock, R; Checkland, K; Sutton, M (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)

BACKGROUND: Improvements in primary care quality are often proposed as a solution to rises in emergency department (ED) attendances. However, there is little agreement on what constitutes an avoidable attendance, and the ...
Perspectives on Poverty in Europe. Following in Tony Atkinson’s Footsteps

Jenkins, SP (Springer Verlag, 2020-03-01)

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and ...