George S. Heriot
Monash University
23 Papers
78 Citations
George S. Heriot is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Endocarditis. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of George S. Heriot include St. Vincent's Health System & Royal Melbourne Hospital.
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Papers
The Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform Trial Protocol: New Tools for an Old Foe
Steven Y. C. Tong,Jocelyn Mora,Asha C. Bowen,Matthew P. Cheng,Nick Daneman,Anna Goodman,George S. Heriot,Todd C. Lee,Roger J. Lewis,David C. Lye,Robert K Mahar,Julie A. Marsh,Anna McGlothlin,Zoe McQuilten,Susan C. Morpeth,David A. Patterson,David Price,Jason A. Roberts,James O. Robinson,S. J. van Hal,Genevieve Walls,Steve Webb,Lyn Whiteway,Dafna Yahav,Joshua S. Davis +24 more
TL;DR: The rationale and framework for an adaptive platform trial applied to SAB infections, and the design features of the Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform (SNAP) trial that will enable multiple questions to be answered as efficiently as possible are provided.
Coronavirus Human Infection Challenge Studies: Assessing Potential Benefits and Risks.
TL;DR: Several considerations that should inform systematic assessment of SARS-CoV-2 HCS are explored and interactions between public health policy and research priorities are highlighted, including situations in which research ethics assessments may need to strike a balance between competing considerations.
The four horsemen: clinicopathological correlation in 407 hospital autopsies
TL;DR: The aim of this study is to determine the sensitivity and positive predictive value of current clinical diagnosis both overall and for individual conditions.
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Diagnostic errors in patients dying in hospital: radiology's contribution.
TL;DR: A comprehensive taxonomy of diagnostic errors in radiology is proposed that incorporates requests, image acquisition, radiological reports and evidence of communication to the treating team, and is retrospectively applicable to a given set of radiological episodes using pre‐existing standard hospital databases.
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Echocardiography has minimal yield and may not be warranted in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia without clinical risk factors for endocarditis.
TL;DR: Patients with none of the three criteria examined in this study have a very low rate of endocarditis and may fall below the test threshold for echocardiography.
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