Publications

2008

McLean R, Mendis K, Canalese J
Health promotion for young adult males in a rural environment - the mobile phone as a potential tool
Accepted for publication - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

McLean R, Mendis K, Canalese J
A ten year retrospective study of unplanned hospital readmissions to a regional Australian hospital
Australian Health Review 2008: 32(3):537-547
PubMed

2007

McLean R, Mendis K, Harris B, Canalese J
Retrospective bibliometric review of rural health research: Australias contribution and other trends
Rural and Remote Health Journal. 2007 Oct-Dec;7(4):767. Epub 2007 Nov 14.
PubMed

Lyle D, Klineberg I, Taylor S, Jolly N, Fuller J, Canalese J.
Harnessing a university to address rural health workforce shortages in Australia.
Aust J Rural Health. 2007 Aug;15(4):227-33. PubMed

Mendis K
Health Informatics research in Australia: Retrospective analysis using PubMed
Informatics in Primary Care 2007; 15:17-23 PubMed

McConnel FB, Pashen D, McLean D
The ARTS of Risk Management in Rural and Remote Medicine
Accepted for publication in - Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine - citation PubMed

Malek S, McLean R, Webster E.
Analysis of recording and coding of smoking history for patients admitted to a regional hospital.
Aust Journal Rural Health. 2007 Feb; 15(1):65-6 PubMed

2006

Mendis K, McLean R
Increased expenditure on Australian health and medical research and changes in numbers of publications determined using PubMed
Medical Journal of Australia 2006; 185 (3): 155-158 PubMed

McLean R, Malek S, Corish J, Sienkiewicz G.
Utilisation and clinical efficacy of echocardiography in a regional hospital.
Aust Journal Rural Health. 2006 Apr;14 (2):72-8.

Little P, Turner S, Rumsby K, Warner G, Moore M, Lowes JA, Smith H, Hawke C, Mullee M.
Developing clinical rules to predict urinary tract infection in primary care settings: sensitivity and specificity of near patient tests (dipsticks) and clinical scores.
Br J Gen Pract. 2006 Aug;56(529):606-12.

2005

Pegram RW, Humphreys JS, McLean R
Meeting the needs of rural and remote Australians for specialist medical care: issuesand options
J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2005; 35:298–308

DeWitt DE, McLean R, Newbury J, Shannon S, Critchley J.
Development of a common national questionnaire to evaluate student perceptions about the Australian Rural Clinical Schools Program.
Rural Remote Health. 2005 Jul-Sep;5(3):486. Epub 2005 Sep 19.

Mendis K, Solangarachchi I
PubMed perspective of family medicine research: where does it stand?
Family Practice 2005; 22: 570-575
PubMed

Newman DJ, Mattock MB, Dawnay AB, Kerry S, McGuire A, Yaqoob M, Hitman GA, Hawke C.
Systematic review on urine albumin testing for early detection of diabetic complications.
Health Technol Assess. 2005 Aug;9(30):iii-vi, xiii-163. Review.

Wakerman J, McLean R
ARHEN and FRAME bring a new era for RRH
Rural and Remote Health5 (online). 2005: 408