Dear ISPRN members,

Happy New year to you all. I hope you had a wonderful festive season.

We have been busy here at ISPRN over the last 12-18 months working in several different spaces within Primary Care. Our Associate Professor of General Practice, Joel Rhee has research interests in Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning.

Here is the latest research that he has been working on:

• Risk J, Walters L, Rhee J, Ward P. (2019). Barriers, enablers and initiatives for uptake of advance care planning in General Practice: a systematic review and critical interpretive synthesis. BMJ Open. 9:e030275. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030275.Barriers enablers and initiatives for uptake of advance care planning
• Senior H, Grant M, Rhee J, Aubin M, McVey P, Johnson CE, Monterosso L, Nwachukwu H, Fallon-Ferguson J, Yates P, Williams B, Mitchell G. (2019). General Practitioners’ and General Practice Nurses’ Self-reported Practice at the End of Life: Delivery, communication, coordination, and multidisciplinary care –a systematic review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. In press.General practice physicians and nurses self- reported multidisc
• Littlewood J, Hinchcliff R, Lo W, Rhee J. (2019). Advance Care Planning in rural New South Wales from the perspective of general practice registrars and recently fellowed general practitioners. Australian Journal of Rural Health. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12525.Littlewood_et_al-2019-Australian_Journal_of_Rural_Health
• Vajdic CM, Perez-Concha O, Rhee JJ, Dobbins T, Ward RL, Schaffer AL, van Leeuwen MT, Laaksonen MA, Craigen G, Pearson SA. (2019). Health-related predictors of cancer registry-notified cancer of unknown primary site (CUP). Cancer Epidemiology. 61, 1-7.Health related predictors of cancer registry notified cancer
• Vajdic CM, Perez-Concha O, Dobbins T, Ward RL, Schaffer AL, van Leeuwen MT, Rhee JJ, Laaksonen MA, Craigen G, Pearson SA. (2019). Demographic, social and lifestyle risk factors for cancer registry-notified cancer of unknown primary site (CUP). Cancer Epidemiology. 60 (2019), 156-61.demographic, social and lifestyle risk factors for cancer registry
• Miller, H., Tan, J., Clayton, JM., Meller, A., Hermiz, O., Zwar, N., Rhee, J. (2019). Patient experiences of nurse-facilitated Advance Care Planning in a general practice setting: a qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care. 18:25. doi: 10.1186/s12904-019-0411-z.Patient experiences of nurse facilitated advance care planning
• Rhee, J., Meller, A., Krysinska, K., Gonski, P., Naganathan, V., Zwar, NA., Hayen, A., Cullen, J., O’Keefe, J-A., McDonald, J., Harris-Roxas, B., Caplan, GA. (2019). Advance Care Planning for patients with advanced illnesses attending hospital outpatient clinics study: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 9:e023107. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023107.Advance care plannin for patients with advanced illnesses attending hospital outpatient clinics study

If you are interested in speaking with A/Prof Rhee about any of his research or if you would like to engage in research with us, we would love to hear from you.

Kind Regards

Alyssa Horgan
Research Officer, ISPRN
Graduate Medicine
amunkman@uow.edu.au