It was a pleasure to be part of the working group who advised on the development of GROVE: a Guideline for RepOrting Vignette Experiments conducted in a healthcare context www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @tessacopp.bsky.social

Development of GROVE: A Guideline for RepOrting Vignette Experiments conducted in a healthcare context

Experimental studies using vignettes investigate the impact of healthcare professional or patient/client characteristics, communication, and/or other …

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"When a medical problem is part of a person’s identity, it becomes inescapable." www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?

Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

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A great panel discussion on equity at this year's #DigitalHealthWeek2025 featuring our Postdoc Dr Julie Ayre 👏 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @julieayre.bsky.social

Tessa Copp @tessacopp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stellar panel for the first day of #DigitalHealthWeek2025! Vital discussion by @julieayre.bsky.social and others on achieving equity, fairness and justice in our health care systems. @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

Stellar panel for the first day of #DigitalHealthWeek2025! Vital discussion by @julieayre.bsky.social and others on achieving equity, fairness and justice in our health care systems. @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

Excellent keynote by Richard Taggart on the work underway to enable digital health to reach underserved cohorts #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social

Fab 3 minute pitch by Min Jiat Teng on his poster of patient and clinician views of virtual fracture clinics. See his poster here: extravaganza.gallery/dhw25/14b1af... #Digitalhealthweek2025

Super important, multifaceted intervention targeting postnatal depression - amazing work Heilok Cheng and team! #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Fascinating listening to barriers to measuring substance use and need for wearable devices for more accurate measurement by Jack Wilson #DigitalHealthWeek2025

#DigitalHealthWeek2025 has kicked off with a gorgeous Acknowledgement of Country by Rakeeta Smallwood - with wishes for lots of yarning around making a difference for all during the conference 🥰

Listening to Prof @carolynday make opening remarks at the Digital Health Week 2025 which is in person @sydneyuni.bsky.social AND being live-streamed too. Great to hear about the breadth of the Faculty of Medicine and Health @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social digitalhealthweek.com.au

Digital Health Week has officially kicked off! Looking forward to hearing all the interesting talks and keynote sessions over the next 3 days! #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

Check out our poster in the Digital Health Week 2025 ePoster Gallery! Looking forward to the conference kicking off tomorrow! extravaganza.gallery/dhw25/0d9aec... #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

Direct-to-consumer tests: emerging trends are cause for concern www.bmj.com/content/387/... poorly (or not) regulated Misleading or partial information An industry built on fear See also www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Direct-to-consumer tests: emerging trends are cause for concern

Emma Gram and colleagues argue that the public needs high quality information and effective communication about the evidence behind the marketing of direct-to-consumer tests Advances in diagnostic t...

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Registrations are now open for #DigitalHealthWeek25 February 4 – 6 2025. We have an exciting program featuring over 80 presentations, ePoster sessions, and networking opportunities each day - both in person and virtually! Find out more: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-he...

Digital Health Week 2025

Weaving the Fabric of Digital Health

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Registrations are now open for #DigitalHealthWeek25 February 4 – 6 2025! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-he...

Digital Health Week 2025

Weaving the Fabric of Digital Health

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Hi Bluesky! We're a research group at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health. 🛟 We research #healthliteracy & #healthcommunication using behavioural & social science methods. Follow us for the latest updates on all the exciting projects we're working on!

Amazing summary Carissa! A huge year for you! 🙌

A/Prof Carissa Bonner@carissabonner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵 Top 5 projects for 2024: 1. Heart Health Checks: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 2. Heart Yarning Tool: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 3. PhDs: preventioncentre.org.au/resources/ho... 4. Health literacy editor: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 5. New journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Glad my PhD work on #PCOS #overdiagnosis is still being picked up! Thanks @nytimes.com for covering this important topic! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/o...

Opinion | When There’s a Dearth of Good Information on Women’s Health, a Million Scams Bloom

Especially when fertility is involved.

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Looking for tools to help write health information more simply? Try the Health Literacy Editor. Our trial showed it helps people: ✔️ Lower the grade reading level ✔️ Use less jargon & passive voice ✔️ Score higher on expert health literacy ratings www.sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au/health-liter...

When laparoscopic examination is performed on women with severe pelvic pain, 45% have #endometriosis lesions. When it's performed on women with NO pain, 44% do. Statisticians, what does that suggest? 🤔

Lara Briden @larabriden.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pelvic pain is real. The role that #endometriosis lesions may (or may not) play in that pain is debatable.

Nearly five years after publication, and after 4,000 retractions, the paper that sparked the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 has been retracted. The publisher cites a range of scientific and ethical concerns. I have some thoughts 1/n

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision

The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

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A late post but want to get the word out there! New prelim work using generative AI to simplify hospital discharge instructions is out in npj Digital Medicine! www.nature.com/articles/s41... The model was able to simplify instructions effectively, but 18% of outputs had a major safety risk.

The quality and safety of using generative AI to produce patient-centred discharge instructions - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - The quality and safety of using generative AI to produce patient-centred discharge instructions

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The Sydney Health Literacy Lab is coming to Bluesky soon! This is about half of us, working across a huge range of health topics. We're passionate about #healthcommunication that meets #healthliteracy needs to improve equity, using behavioural & social science methods with a codesign approach.