A list of research projects in which analysis has been completed via SURE are listed below. A number of these studies are linkage studies using the 45 and Up Study data linked to health and other records. Those studies are marked with a * – see the 45 and Up Study Research Projects section for more information.
SURE research projects
Cancer
Economic analysis of the social costs of skin cancer in NSW
Lead organisation: Cancer Institute NSW
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Complete
Hormone therapies for early breast cancer: Health outcomes and policy implications in Australian clinical practice
Lead organisation: School of Population Health, University of Western Australia
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
The cost effectiveness of managing individuals at high risk of melanoma in a ‘high-risk clinic’ compared with standard care
Lead organisation: School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
Population-level relevance of risk factors for cancer
Lead organisation: Prince of Wales Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Developing indicators of cancer progression and recurrence in NSW using linked NSW Cancer Registry data, Admitted Patients Collection data, Emergency Department data, MBS and PBS Health Insurance data and ABS and RBDMS death data
Lead organisation: Cancer Institute NSW
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Factors relating to cancer incidence, care and outcomes in the 45 and Up Study
Lead organisation: Cancer Council of NSW
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
A population-based examination of cancer in NSW farmers
Lead organisation: Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
BreastScreen NSW and 45 and up study data linkage
Lead organisation: Cancer Institute NSW
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Risks and benefits of breast cancer screening: BreastScreen WA cohort study of overdiagnosis and breast cancer mortality
Lead organisation: Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne
Workspace established: 2016
Project Status: Current
Diabetes
Investigating best practice primary health care for older Australians with diabetes using data linkage
Lead organisation: Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Cardiovascular Health
Novel and established risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease
Lead organisation: Australian National University and the George Institute
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Primary care
The finance and economics of primary health care
Lead organisation: Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Regional level modelling of patient catchment areas – defining and analysing variation in primary health care need, utilisation and cost
Lead organisation: Centre for Health Research, University of Western Sydney and Australian National University
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Use of primary care, health events, health services use and costs in the 45 and Up Study
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Using Health Services
Burden and costs of chronic diseases
Lead organisation: The Sax Institute & the Centre for Health Research, University of Western Sydney
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Complete
Validation of self-reported PSA testing in men aged 45 and Up Study
Lead organisation: The Sax Institute & the Centre for Health Research, University of Western Sydney
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Complete
Risk management and funding structures: an econometric panel data analysis of health insurance in Australia
Lead organisation: Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Impact on prescriber behaviour and patient health outcomes of national QUM programs – Antithrombotic Agents
Lead organisation: National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Evaluation of osteoporosis management: Treatment effectiveness, policy utilisation and impacts on fracture incidence
Lead organisation: Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
Patient waiting times at public hospitals and the demand for private care
Lead organisation: Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
High risk prescribing in older people
Lead organisation: National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
The utilisation of medications during pregnancy and the associated health outcomes
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Mapping the outcomes of calls to healthdirect Australia
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Comorbidity and risk factors for chronic diseases
Lead organisation: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Health service utilisation before and after a diagnosis of cancer
Lead organisation: Cancer Institute NSW & School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Effects of Reducing Prescription Drug Co-payments among Indigenous Australians
Lead organisation: Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Transitions between home, hospital and residential aged care for people with and without dementia
Lead organisation: Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Patient Experience Project (PEP): Using patients experiences of adverse events to improve health service delivery and practice
Lead organisation: School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
The safety of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Australia
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Outcome and process indicators for enhanced reporting of the performance of the NSW public healthcare system
Lead organisation: NSW Bureau of Health Information
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Transitions between home, hospital and residential aged care for people with and without dementia (Injury-related hospital admissions involving patients with dementia in NSW)
Lead organisation: Centre for Health Resilience and Implementation Science (CHRIS), Macquarie University
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
The use of narcotics and radiological imaging in back pain
Lead organisation: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Fall-related and other health service use in Stepping On participants and other older adults
Lead organisation: The George Institute for Global Health, Musculoskeletal Division
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Examining outcomes in chronic disease in the 45 and Up Study
Lead organisation: The George Institute for Global Health
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Quantifying the Burden of Disease of Systemic Sclerosis, from data linkage to patient reported outcomes
Lead organisation: St Vincent’s Health, Melbourne
Workspace established: 2016
Project status: Current
The Better Cardiac Care Collaborative Data Linkage Project for New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Lead organisation: Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Living with acute coronary syndrome: what happens to people in early years after discharge from hospital with a coronary event in Australia
Lead organisation: The George Institute for Global Health
Workspace established: 2016
Project Status: Current
Health, Lifestyle Factors and Ageing
Identifying predisposing factors for, and the consequences of, common and emerging infectious diseases: A prospective cohort study of adults
Lead organisation: School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
Health and quality of life indicators in relation to blood donation status
Lead organisation: Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
Using 45 and Up dataset to measure and map fruit and vegetable consumption across different ethnic groups in NSW
Lead organisation: Office of Research Services, University of Western Sydney
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Respiratory Outcomes Linkage Study (ROLS) – data linkage using the 45 and Up Study
Lead organisation: Australian Centre for Airways disease Monitoring (ACAM)
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Exploring the contribution of individual-, area- and service-level factors to Indigenous Health Outcomes
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2012
Project Status: Current
The SEEF project: Understanding the impact of the social, economic and environmental factors on the health of Australians in mid – later life; where are the opportunities for prevention?
Lead organisation: School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
Socioeconomic status, depression and risk of stroke: analysis of 750,000 participants from two prospective cohort studies
Lead organisation: School of Population Health, University of Queensland
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Health outcomes and service utilisation in a cohort of people who inject drugs, sex workers and ‘at risk’ young people: a records linkage study
Lead organisation: The Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Australia
Workspace established: 2016
Project Status: Current
Child Health
Western Australia Intergenerational Foetal Growth Study (WAAIFS)
Lead organisation: School of Public Health, University of Sydney and the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience & Child Health (SEARCH)
Lead organisation: The Sax Institute, Australian National University and the University of Sydney
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Infections in childhood, risk factors, sequelae and health system burden
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Seeding Success: identifying factors that contribute to positive early childhood health and development in Aboriginal children
Lead organisation: Centre for Big Data Research in Health, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
immunisation
Investigating vaccine safety via data linkage of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Death Index and the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
Lead organisation: The University of Adelaide, School of Paediatrics & Reproductive Health
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Linkage of the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register and state-based registers to evaluate and inform Australia’s immunisation program
Lead organisation: School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Other
Factors associated with men and women’s workforce participation
Lead organisation: Ageing, Disability & Homecare, NSW Family & Community Services
Workspace established: 2013
Project Status: Current
Move or stay? Migration intentions for retirement
Lead organisation: Centre for Demography, Research and Policy (CDRP), NSW Department of Planning and Environment
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
Investigating the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society CORE data
Lead organisation: Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
Workspace established: 2014
Project Status: Current
The social and spatial patterning of health outcomes, (un)healthy lifestyles and health service use: Evidence on trajectories, transitions and tipping points in the 45 and Up Longitudinal Study
Lead organisation: School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre Health Market Quality Program – Health Round Table Research
Lead organisation: Capital Market CRC Limited (CMCRC)
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study
Lead organisation: NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS)
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) National Cardiac Surgery Database Program
Lead organisation: ANZSCTS, Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education, Monash University
Workspace established: 2015
Project Status: Current
Dynamic simulation modelling to support strategy dialogues for the prevention of alcohol related harm in NSW
Lead organisation: The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
Workspace established: 2016
Project Status: Current
AIHW Hosting of a subset of the DSS Priority Investment Approach Dataset
Lead organisation: AIHW Data Integration Services Centre
Workspace established: 2016
Project Status: Current