School of Clinical Sciences
The School of Clinical Sciences plays an important role in specialist teaching and research conducted by its academic staff and postgraduate students. This places AUT students at the forefront of much of the ground-breaking research undertaken in New Zealand, especially in the fields of Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Oral Health, Paramedicine, Physiotherapy, Podiatry.
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Mobilisation or Immobilisation-Based Treatments for First Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis With Subgroup Analyses
(SAGE, 2022)Introduction: Both joint mobilisation and immobilisation are thought to be effective in the treatment of first carpo metacarpal joint (CMCJ) osteoarthritis (OA). The objective of this review was to establish whether either ... -
A Bibliometric Analysis of Published Research Employing Musculoskeletal Imaging Modalities To Evaluate Foot Osteoarthritis
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2022)Temporal and global changes in research utilising imaging to assess foot osteoarthritis is currently unknown. This study aimed to undertake a bibliometric analysis of published research to: (1) identify the imaging modalities ... -
Doing Case Study Research Collaboratively: The Benefits for Researchers
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Collaborative research teams are an effective strategy to combine the knowledge and skills of like-minded researchers across tertiary education settings and international borders. Research collaborations have the potential ... -
Case Study: Pilot Testing of a Local Acupuncture Intervention Protocol for Burn Scars
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Background Following burn injury and a prolonged duration of healing, scars may become hypertrophic, causing movement restriction, increased scar thickness, colour and pliability, and symptoms such as pain and itch. ... -
Development of the Comprehensive Pain Assessment Tool Short Form for Chronic Pancreatitis: Validity and Reliability Testing
(Elsevier, 2021)Background & Aims Pain is the foremost complication to chronic pancreatitis (CP), but no validated questionnaires for assessment exist. The COMPAT questionnaire includes all relevant pain dimensions in CP, but a short ... -
Diabetes-Related Foot Disease Research in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Bibliometric Analysis (1970–2020)
(BioMed Central, 2022)BACKGROUND: The aim of this bibliometric study was to examine trends in the quality and quantity of published diabetes-related foot disease (DRFD) research in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) over the past five decades. METHOD: ... -
The Affordances of Immersive Virtual Reality Clinical Simulation Within Healthcare Education: A Scoping Review Protocol
(Open Science Framework, 2021)Whilst clinical simulation is recognised as an effective educational tool within the healthcare community, the inability to offer authentic simulation learning environments remains problematic. The latest advances in ... -
Ain’t That Dental Rubbish!?
(The New Zealand Dental Association, 2022)Regardless of one’s scope of practice, we are all health professionals work ing in a field responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions.1 We have to be accountable and improve the way we practice. As an inexperienced ... -
Pre-hospital Transdermal Glyceryl Trinitrate in Patients With Stroke Mimics: Data From the RIGHT-2 Randomised-Controlled Ambulance Trial
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Background Prehospital stroke trials will inevitably recruit patients with non-stroke conditions, so called stroke mimics. We undertook a pre-specified analysis to determine outcomes in patients with mimics in the second ... -
Inter-rater Agreement When Linking Stroke Interventions to the Extended International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Set for Stroke
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Purpose: To uncover the factors that influence inter-rater agreement when extracting stroke interventions from patient records and linking them to the relevant categories in the Extended International Classification of ... -
Supporting Online Paramedic Education Within a COVID-19 Era
(The scholarship of technology enhanced learning (SoTEL), 2022)Covid-19 has impacted many areas of New Zealand’s higher education system, with most universities forced to transfer activities away from the traditional campus-based learning toward online platforms. This has resulted in ... -
Improving the Time to Antibiotic Administration in Paediatric Febrile Neutropenia: Implementation of a Clinical Care Pathway in Saudi Arabia
(Scholars Middle East Publishers, 2022)The aim of this quality improvement practice project was to improve noted delays in the time to antibiotic administration in paediatric febrile neutropenic patients seen at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research ... -
Foot Orthoses for Treating Paediatric Flat Feet
Background Paediatric flat feet are a common presentation in primary care;reported prevalence approximates 15%. A minority of flat feet can hurt and limit gait. There is no optimal strategy, nor consensus, for using foot ... -
Lived Experience of Dementia in the New Zealand Indian Community: A Qualitative Study With Family Care Givers and People Living With Dementia
(MDPI, 2022)Currently, there are estimated to be 70,000 people living with dementia in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This figure is projected to more than double by 2040, but due to the more rapid growth of older age groups in non-European ... -
The Civil Rights of Disabled Children in Physiotherapy Practices
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)Purpose This study aimed to explore the experiences of civil rights of disabled children receiving physiotherapy in New Zealand. As yet there is limited attention given to this topic in rehabilitation literature. Methods We ... -
Physiotherapy Students’ Conceptualisations of Clinical Communication: A Call to Revisit Communication in Physiotherapy Education
(Physiopedia, 2018)Background: Communication is fundamental in collaborative physiotherapy practice. Students develop understandings of what constitutes ‘good’ communication through the formal, informal and hidden curricula. Understanding ... -
Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Motor Impairment in Stroke: A Narrative Review on the Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Economic Statistics of Stroke and State of the Art Therapies
Stroke has been one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and is still a social health issue. Keeping in view the importance of physical rehabilitation of stroke patients, an analytical review has been compiled in ... -
Ultrasound Imaging Acquisition Procedures for Evaluating the First Metatarsophalangeal Joint: A Scoping Review
(Elsevier, 2021)The aim of this scoping review was to investigate ultrasound imaging (USI) acquisition procedures and guidelines used to assess the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ). MEDLINE, CINAHL, AMED and SPORTDiscus were ... -
Deeply Touching
In many ways, this remarkable collection of eco-fiction essays, produced by students at UiT Norges arktiske universitet, commissioned and curated by Filip Maric, Liv Johanne Nikolaisen, and Åse Bårdsen, and beautifully ... -
Positive Association Between Ambulance Double-Crewing and OHCA Outcomes: A New Zealand Observational Study
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Background and objectives New Zealand emergency medical service (EMS) crewing configurations generally place one (single) or two (double) crew on each responding ambulance unit. Recent studies demonstrated that double-crewing ...