Tom Briffa
University of Western Australia
195 Papers
719 Citations
Tom Briffa is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 169 publications. Previous affiliations of Tom Briffa include The George Institute for Global Health & Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
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Papers
Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of stroke prevention through community screening for atrial fibrillation using iPhone ECG in pharmacies. The SEARCH-AF study.
Nicole Lowres,Lis Neubeck,Glenn Salkeld,Ines Krass,Andrew J. McLachlan,Julie Redfern,Alexandra A. Bennett,Tom Briffa,Adrian Bauman,Carlos Martinez,Christopher Wallenhorst,Jerrett K. Lau,David Brieger,Raymond W. Sy,S. B. Freedman +14 more
TL;DR: The high and largely preventable stroke/thromboembolism risk of those with newly identified AF highlights the likely benefits of community AF screening, and Guideline recommendation of community iECG AF screening should be considered.
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National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Guidelines for the Prevention, Detection, and Management of Heart Failure in Australia 2018
John Atherton,Andrew Sindone,Carmine G. De Pasquale,Andrea Driscoll,Peter S. Macdonald,Ingrid Hopper,Peter M. Kistler,Tom Briffa,James Wong,Walter P. Abhayaratna,Liza Thomas,Ralph Audehm,Phillip J. Newton,Joan O'Loughlin,Marie Branagan,Cia Connell +15 more
TL;DR: This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Participating in cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative data.
Lis Neubeck,Lis Neubeck,S. Ben Freedman,S. Ben Freedman,Alexander M. Clark,Tom Briffa,Adrian Bauman,Julie Redfern,Julie Redfern +8 more
TL;DR: There is a vast amount of qualitative research which investigates patients’ reasons for non-attendance at CR, and key issues include system-level and patient-level barriers, which are potentially modifiable.
Telehealth interventions for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: a systematic review
Lis Neubeck,Julie Redfern,Ritin Fernandez,Tom Briffa,Adrian Bauman,Saul B. Freedman,Saul B. Freedman +6 more
TL;DR: Telehealth interventions provide effective risk factor reduction and secondary prevention and could help increase uptake of a formal secondary prevention by those who do not access cardiac rehabilitation and narrow the current evidence-practice gap.
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Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) core components of cardiovascular disease secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation 2014.
Stephen Woodruffe,Lis Neubeck,Lis Neubeck,Robyn Clark,Kim Gray,C. Ferry,Jenny Finan,Sue Sanderson,Tom Briffa +8 more
TL;DR: Five core components for quality delivery and outcomes of services were identified and are recommended and Clinicians should use these core components to guide effective service delivery and promote high quality evidence based care.
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