Anna Mae Scott
Bond University
6 Papers
Anna Mae Scott is an academic researcher from Bond University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Research ethics & Health care. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of healthcare services: a systematic review.
Ray Moynihan,Sharon Sanders,Zoe A Michaleff,Anna Mae Scott,Justin Clark,Emma J To,Mark Jones,Eliza Kitchener,Melissa Fox,Minna Johansson,Eddy Lang,Anne E Duggan,Ian M. Scott,Loai Albarqouni +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent and nature of changes in utilisation of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic was determined by a systematic review of studies across 20 countries, reporting on >11 million services prepandemic and 6.9 million during the pandemic.
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Downsides of face masks and possible mitigation strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: There are insufficient data to quantify all of the adverse effects that might reduce the acceptability, adherence, and effectiveness of face masks, so urgent research is also needed on methods and designs to mitigate the downsides of facemask wearing, particularly the assessment of alternatives such as face shields.
'The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back':A survey of views on human research ethics reviews
Anna Mae Scott,Iain Chalmers,Adrian G. Barnett,Alexandre S. Stephens,Simon Kolstoe,Justin Clark,Paul Glasziou +6 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a survey to identify what types of health/medical research could be exempt from research ethics reviews in Australia and found that researchers were 26% more likely than HREC members to require ethics review.
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A Community Jury on initiating weight management conversations in primary care.
Rebecca J. Beeken,Anna Mae Scott,Rebecca Sims,Gina Cleo,Helen Clifford,Paul Glasziou,Rae Thomas +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sought to elicit the views of people with overweight and obesity about the role of GPs in initiating conversations about weight management, and the jury deliberations were analysed qualitatively to elicit their views and recommendations.
Downsides of face masks and possible mitigation strategies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: There are insufficient data to quantify all of the adverse effects that might reduce the acceptability, adherence and effectiveness of face masks, so urgent research is also needed on methods and designs to mitigate the downsides of face mask wearing, particularly the assessment of possible alternatives.