Louisa Gordon was interviewed on ABC News Radio Melbourne about her presentation at the 3rd International Skin Cancer Prevention Conference in Melbourne.
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Read the comment from Haitham Tuffaha and Paul Scuffham

Prof Scuffham presented at the annual conference of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine on 23 November. Voice prompted scanners for armband barcodes improved labelling and checking patient identification for administration of medicines and for pathology tests for relatively low cost. However, cost-savings could easily be achieved by not giving IV fluids to alcohol intoxicated patients and greater cost-savings could be obtained by not taking samples for pathology.  Another cost-saving intervention was having radiographers instead of radiologists - to report on x-rays ordered from the ED. This also reduced the time for the availability of the report and thereby could reduce the time spent in the ED. This practice is now widely used in the UK.

Cindy Mervin will work with Prof Claire Rickard (CIA) on this recently awarded NHRMC project grant. The project will investigate how to reduce the incidence of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) failure through clinically effective and cost-effective dressing and securement care.

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