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1. Acknowledgement and use of advance care directives and goals of care by emergency department staff: a mixed method post intervention study

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Abdi D. Osman, Jocelyn Howell, Michael Yeoh, Louisa Lam, Daryl Jones, and George Braitberg

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Advance Care Planning, Emergency Department, Advance care directives, Goals of care, Medical treatment decision maker, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245
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Abstract Introduction Advance Care Planning (ACP) refers to a process that includes Advance Care Directives (ACD) and Goals of Care (GOC), a practice widely used for over three decades. Following the findings of an audit and a cross-sectional study in 2019 and 2021 respectively, we implemented several educational and other interventional strategies aimed at enhancing staff awareness and emphasizing the importance of recognizing and documenting of ACD/GOC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acknowledgement and use of ACD and GOC by Emergency Department (ED) staff following these interventions. Method We used a mixed methods approach, incorporating both observational and cross-sectional designs with reflexive thematic analysis. Data extraction for the observational study took place between 1st April and 30th June 2023 focusing on a target population of randomly sampled adults aged ≥ 65 years. Demographics and other ACD and GOC related patients’ clinical data were collected. Data collection for the cross-sectional study occurred between 19th July and 13th September 2023 targeting all ED staff. Information gathered included demographics, awareness about ACD and GOC, including storage location and implementation, as well as knowledge of Medical Treatment decision Makers (MTDM), a jurisdictional term identifying a person legally appointed to make healthcare decisions on behalf of someone who lacks decision-making capacity and other Victorian State legislative requirements were collected. Results In the observational period, 22,335 patients attended the ED and 19% (n = 6546) qualified for inclusion from which a sample of 308 patients were randomly extracted. We found ACD documents were noted in the medical records of 6.5% of the sample, fewer than 8% identified in our previous study. There was no correlation between ACD record availability and age (p = 0.054; CI ranging from − 0.065 to 7.768). The response rate for the cross-sectional survey was 12% (n = 340) in contrast to earlier study with 28% (n = 476) respondents. Staff knowledge and familiarity with ACD was 25% and GOC 45%. Conclusion After implementing interventions in staff education and ACP awareness, we found that ACD documentation did not improve. However, GOC documentation increased in the context of heightened institutional awareness and integration into the Electronic Medical Records (EMR).

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2024
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2. Benefits of emergency department routine blood test performance on patients whose allocated triage category is not time critical: a retrospective study

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Abdi D. Osman, Jocelyn Howell, Michael Yeoh, Damian Wilson, Virginia Plummer, and George Braitberg

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Emergency department, Routine blood tests, Point of care test, Length of stay, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
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Abstract Introduction Emergency department clinicians, and particularly nurses in triage, frequently perform routine blood tests on patients whose allocated triage category is not time critical (triage categories 3, 4 and 5 of the Australasian Triage Scale). Some observers have questioned the utility of routine blood testing in these acute healthcare settings given the cost and workload implications. Methods A quantitative method using retrospective observational design was utilised guided by STROBE checklist. Electronic medical records of patient data collected at a quaternary Australian metropolitan hospital emergency department were reviewed. Results and discussion A total of 74,878 adult patients attended the emergency department between 1st January and 31st December 2021 and a sample of 383 were randomly allocated for this study. Of the 383 patients included, 51% were female, age ranges were 18–99 years (mean 51.6). The majority were Australasian Triage scale (ATS) triage category 3 (55%) and 62% had blood tests performed. Blood test performance was found to be associated with advancing age (p

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2024
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3. AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

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Daniel Falster, Rachael Gallagher, Elizabeth H. Wenk, Ian J. Wright, Dony Indiarto, Samuel C. Andrew, Caitlan Baxter, James Lawson, Stuart Allen, Anne Fuchs, Anna Monro, Fonti Kar, Mark A. Adams, Collin W. Ahrens, Matthew Alfonzetti, Tara Angevin, Deborah M. G. Apgaua, Stefan Arndt, Owen K. Atkin, Joe Atkinson, Tony Auld, Andrew Baker, Maria von Balthazar, Anthony Bean, Chris J. Blackman, Keith Bloomfield, David M. J. S. Bowman, Jason Bragg, Timothy J. Brodribb, Genevieve Buckton, Geoff Burrows, Elizabeth Caldwell, James Camac, Raymond Carpenter, Jane A. Catford, Gregory R. Cawthray, Lucas A. Cernusak, Gregory Chandler, Alex R. Chapman, David Cheal, Alexander W. Cheesman, Si-Chong Chen, Brendan Choat, Brook Clinton, Peta L. Clode, Helen Coleman, William K. Cornwell, Meredith Cosgrove, Michael Crisp, Erika Cross, Kristine Y. Crous, Saul Cunningham, Timothy Curran, Ellen Curtis, Matthew I. Daws, Jane L. DeGabriel, Matthew D. Denton, Ning Dong, Pengzhen Du, Honglang Duan, David H. Duncan, Richard P. Duncan, Marco Duretto, John M. Dwyer, Cheryl Edwards, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, John R. Evans, Susan E. Everingham, Claire Farrell, Jennifer Firn, Carlos Roberto Fonseca, Ben J. French, Doug Frood, Jennifer L. Funk, Sonya R. Geange, Oula Ghannoum, Sean M. Gleason, Carl R. Gosper, Emma Gray, Philip K. Groom, Saskia Grootemaat, Caroline Gross, Greg Guerin, Lydia Guja, Amy K. Hahs, Matthew Tom Harrison, Patrick E. Hayes, Martin Henery, Dieter Hochuli, Jocelyn Howell, Guomin Huang, Lesley Hughes, John Huisman, Jugoslav Ilic, Ashika Jagdish, Daniel Jin, Gregory Jordan, Enrique Jurado, John Kanowski, Sabine Kasel, Jürgen Kellermann, Belinda Kenny, Michele Kohout, Robert M. Kooyman, Martyna M. Kotowska, Hao Ran Lai, Etienne Laliberté, Hans Lambers, Byron B. Lamont, Robert Lanfear, Frank van Langevelde, Daniel C. Laughlin, Bree-Anne Laugier-Kitchener, Susan Laurance, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Andrea Leigh, Michelle R. Leishman, Tanja Lenz, Brendan Lepschi, James D. Lewis, Felix Lim, Udayangani Liu, Janice Lord, Christopher H. Lusk, Cate Macinnis-Ng, Hannah McPherson, Susana Magallón, Anthony Manea, Andrea López-Martinez, Margaret Mayfield, James K. McCarthy, Trevor Meers, Marlien van der Merwe, Daniel J. Metcalfe, Per Milberg, Karel Mokany, Angela T. Moles, Ben D. Moore, Nicholas Moore, John W. Morgan, William Morris, Annette Muir, Samantha Munroe, Áine Nicholson, Dean Nicolle, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Ülo Niinemets, Tom North, Andrew O’Reilly-Nugent, Odhran S. O’Sullivan, Brad Oberle, Yusuke Onoda, Mark K. J. Ooi, Colin P. Osborne, Grazyna Paczkowska, Burak Pekin, Caio Guilherme Pereira, Catherine Pickering, Melinda Pickup, Laura J. Pollock, Pieter Poot, Jeff R. Powell, Sally A. Power, Iain Colin Prentice, Lynda Prior, Suzanne M. Prober, Jennifer Read, Victoria Reynolds, Anna E. Richards, Ben Richardson, Michael L. Roderick, Julieta A. Rosell, Maurizio Rossetto, Barbara Rye, Paul D. Rymer, Michael A. Sams, Gordon Sanson, Hervé Sauquet, Susanne Schmidt, Jürg Schönenberger, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Kerrie Sendall, Steve Sinclair, Benjamin Smith, Renee Smith, Fiona Soper, Ben Sparrow, Rachel J. Standish, Timothy L. Staples, Ruby Stephens, Christopher Szota, Guy Taseski, Elizabeth Tasker, Freya Thomas, David T. Tissue, Mark G. Tjoelker, David Yue Phin Tng, Félix de Tombeur, Kyle Tomlinson, Neil C. Turner, Erik J. Veneklaas, Susanna Venn, Peter Vesk, Carolyn Vlasveld, Maria S. Vorontsova, Charles A. Warren, Nigel Warwick, Lasantha K. Weerasinghe, Jessie Wells, Mark Westoby, Matthew White, Nicholas S. G. Williams, Jarrah Wills, Peter G. Wilson, Colin Yates, Amy E. Zanne, Graham Zemunik, and Kasia Ziemińska

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Science
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Measurement(s) plant trait Technology Type(s) digital curation Sample Characteristic - Organism Viridiplantae Sample Characteristic - Location Australia Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14545755

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2021
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4. AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

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Robert M. Kooyman, Richard P. Duncan, Ben Sparrow, Ning Dong, Christopher Szota, Hans Lambers, Andrew G. Baker, Timothy J. Curran, Samuel C. Andrew, Guy Taseski, Anthony Manea, Maria von Balthazar, David H. Duncan, Peter A. Vesk, Catherine Marina Pickering, Ellen M. Curtis, Andrea López-Martinez, Chris J. Blackman, David Cheal, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, John M. Dwyer, Caio Guilherme Pereira, Susan G. Laurance, Anthony Bean, Tom North, Karel Mokany, Steve J. Sinclair, Margaret M. Mayfield, Nicholas S.G. Williams, Brad Oberle, Owen K. Atkin, Ashika Jagdish, Matthew I. Daws, John Joseph Kanowski, Lydia K. Guja, William K. Cornwell, Martyna M. Kotowska, Angela T. Moles, Martin Henery, Amy E. Zanne, Benjamin Smith, Elizabeth M. Tasker, Raymond J. Carpenter, Maurizio Rossetto, Per Milberg, Sabine Kasel, Melinda Pickup, Maria S. Vorontsova, Nigel W. M. Warwick, David T. Tissue, John W. Morgan, Ülo Niinemets, Meredith Cosgrove, Gregory J. Jordan, Susanna Venn, James Lawson, Matthew D. Denton, James S. Camac, Barbara Rye, Jarrah Wills, Erik J. Veneklaas, Tara Angevin, Joe Atkinson, Neil C. Turner, Carl R. Gosper, Tony Auld, Victoria A. Reynolds, John Huisman, Elizabeth Caldwell, Bree Anne Laugier-Kitchener, Nicholas Moore, Udayangani Liu, Christopher H. Lusk, Jugoslav Ilic, Marlien van der Merwe, Helen G. Coleman, Hannah McPherson, Odhran S. O'Sullivan, Erika Cross, Tanja Lenz, Graham Zemunik, Stuart Allen, Annette Muir, Ernst Detlef Schulze, Susanne Schmidt, James D. Lewis, Hervé Sauquet, Cate Macinnis-Ng, Elizabeth Wenk, Michelle R. Leishman, Mark G. Tjoelker, Jane A. Catford, Carlos Fonseca, Guomin Huang, Daniel Jin, Etienne Laliberté, William K. Morris, Samantha E. M. Munroe, Ian J. Wright, Rachel J. Standish, Honglang Duan, Andrew O’Reilly-Nugent, Iain Colin Prentice, Geoff Burrows, Peta L. Clode, Colin J. Yates, James K. McCarthy, Alex R. Chapman, Lesley Hughes, Alexander W. Cheesman, Michael L. Roderick, Genevieve Buckton, Ruby E. Stephens, Lucas A. Cernusak, Suzanne M. Prober, Mark Westoby, Brendan J. Lepschi, Jennifer L. Funk, Jason G. Bragg, Janice M. Lord, Burak K. Pekin, Carolyn Vlasveld, Renee Smith, Collin W. Ahrens, Jennifer Firn, Dieter F. Hochuli, Deborah M. G. Apgaua, Laura J. Pollock, Fonti Kar, Daniel J. Metcalfe, Freya Thomas, Dean Nicolle, Jocelyn Howell, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Julieta A. Rosell, Lasantha K. Weerasinghe, Jennifer Read, Gordon Drummond Sanson, Michael A. Sams, Jürg Schönenberger, Amy K. Hahs, Ben Richardson, Robert Lanfear, Mark K. J. Ooi, Anna Monro, Marco F. Duretto, Frank van Langevelde, Yusuke Onoda, Saskia Grootemaat, Kasia Ziemińska, Patrick E. Hayes, Grazyna Paczkowska, Kyle W. Tomlinson, Ben J. French, Pengzhen Du, Stefan K. Arndt, Kristine Y. Crous, Jessie A. Wells, David Y. P. Tng, Philip K. Groom, Daniel C. Laughlin, Sally A. Power, Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez, Paul D. Rymer, Colin P. Osborne, Oula Ghannoum, Keith J. Bloomfield, Lynda D. Prior, Byron B. Lamont, Áine Nicholson, Trevor Meers, Daniel S. Falster, Pieter Poot, Charles A. Warren, Dony Indiarto, Michele Kohout, Sean M. Gleason, Timothy L. Staples, Caitlan Baxter, Susana Magallón, Enrique Jurado, Félix de Tombeur, Matthew Alfonzetti, Ben D. Moore, Doug Frood, Susan E. Everingham, Peter G. Wilson, David M. J. S. Bowman, Emma F. Gray, Gregory Chandler, Matthew White, John R. Evans, Hao Ran Lai, Gregory R. Cawthray, Greg R. Guerin, Anne Fuchs, Sonya R. Geange, Caroline L. Gross, Jane L. DeGabriel, Fiona M. Soper, Claire Farrell, Matthew T. Harrison, Andrea Leigh, Anna E. Richards, Timothy J. Brodribb, Rachael V. Gallagher, Brendan Choat, Jürgen Kellermann, Mark A. Adams, Belinda Kenny, Kerrie M. Sendall, Jeff R. Powell, Si-Chong Chen, Cheryl Edwards, Saul A. Cunningham, Michael D. Crisp, Felix K. S. Lim, Brook Clinton, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre [UNSW Sydney], School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Sydney] (BEES), University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW)-University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Western Sydney University, Macquarie University [Sydney], CSIRO Land and Water, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Nanchang Institute of Technology, Université de Montréal (UdeM), Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)

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0106 biological sciences, Statistics and Probability, Data Descriptor, Flora, Databases, Factual, Evolution, Science, Ecology (disciplines), Biodiversity, Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser, Library and Information Sciences, computer.software_genre, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Education, Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources, [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems, Information system, Life Science, Plant Physiological Phenomena, Scope (project management), Database, Ecology, Australia, Plants, 15. Life on land, [SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, PE&RC, Field (geography), Computer Science Applications, Phenotype, Taxon, Geography, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, WIAS, Trait, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, computer, 010606 plant biology & botany, Information Systems
Abstract

We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual- and species-level measurements coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties and experimental conditions. This article provides information on version 3.0.2 of AusTraits which contains data for 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data, which also provides a template for other national or regional initiatives globally to fill persistent gaps in trait knowledge., Measurement(s)plant traitTechnology Type(s)digital curationSample Characteristic - OrganismViridiplantaeSample Characteristic - LocationAustralia Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14545755

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2021
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