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The Global Drug Survey (GDS) is the world’s largest annual online survey of people who use drugs, run in multiple countries. Usually undertaken at the end of each year, in these unprecedented times the GDS has also run a Special Edition COVID-19 survey to offer insights into the impact COVID-19 has had on peoples’ use of alcohol and other drugs, their mental health and relationships.

Researchers from our Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Business, Economics & Law have co-authored a report on the cost of residential aged care for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The report adds more evidence on the performance of the sector, and will ultimately contribute to the final recommendations, due to be handed down in February 2021.

It may have taken a global pandemic to get telehealth services covered by Medicare for the whole Australian population, but now that it’s here, experts say it could transform approaches to health care, especially mental health care.

CHSR researchers are helping researchers and students better understand how to develop a preference-based quality of life measure for specific medical conditions.

This two-year project started last month at the UQ Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR). The project is funded by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre and our industry partners.

A major clinical trial finds the drug Allopurinol does not prevent worsening of kidney disease.

Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including University of Queensland researchers has found.

The expansion of telehealth services was a deliberate strategy to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission between practitioners and patients, so is it working?

Australians have seen a huge increase in telehealth consults since the outbreak of COVID-19 after University of Queensland researchers crunched the numbers from Medicare.

The Global Drug Survey (GDS), led by Professor Adam Winstock, is the largest online global survey of people who use drugs.

University of Queensland researchers say a new tool to measure the quality of life of people with dementia will result in better targeted care for those living with the condition.

The government announced a huge expansion of telehealth, but some experts are questioning whether we have the infrastructure in place for this to work on such a large scale.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many clinicians and patients are being required to use telehealth for the first time.

MBS item numbers have been made available for specialists to engage with COVID-19 vulnerable patients via videoconference or telephone consultations but most doctors have no experience of telehealth.

Melanoma is our national cancer. It affects 1 in 17 Australians, and yet setting up a formal screening program like we have for breast, cervical and bowel cancer is trickier than you might think.

Around the world, health authorities are turning to telehealth as an important plank in responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Many Australians are reluctant to use sunscreen, even though it’s an important element in preventing the skin cancers that affect about two in three of us at some time in our lives.

On 12 December we celebrated another successful year for CHSR. The occasion also marked the inaugural CHSR Awards.