Professor Clair Sullivan
Director
Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC)
Conjoint Professor
Centre for Health Services Research
+61 7 334 65343
Researcher biography
Professor Clair Sullivan is an internationally-recognised leading practising and academic clinical informatician who helps drive digital health transformation in Queensland and globally.
Clair is the Director of the new Queensland Digital Health Centre within the Centre for Health Research at The University of Queensland.
A specialist endocrinologist, Clair graduated with Honours in Medicine from The University of Queensland and earned a Research Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Leeds. In 2014, Clair began a parallel career in the emerging field of digital health and has held significant leadership roles in digital health practice and governance across government and academia. Her work is regularly translated into practice and informs policy in Australia and globally.
Clair was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine in Clinical Informatics at UQ and is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology and an Adjunct Professor, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australian College of Health Informatics and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
Clair serves on several national advisory boards for digital health. She is the recipient of several awards including the 2021 Premier's Award for Excellence for her team's work on the digital response to COVID-19 and the 2022 Telstra Brilliant Connected Women in Digital Health Award.
She has generated over $30M in grant funding and has deep collaborations with government and industry. She is ranked in the top 1% of Medical Informatics researchers globally.
Book Chapters
Woods, Lee, Canfell, Oliver and Sullivan, Clair (2023). Knowledge management (applied clinical informatics). Digital health: a transformative approach. (pp. 143-176) edited by Helen Almond and Carey Mather. Sydney, NSW Australia: Elsevier.
De Silva, Kushan, Enticott, Joanne, Graydon, Cameron, Teede, Helena and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Driving impact through big data utilization and analytics in the context of a Learning Health System. Big Data Analytics for Healthcare: Datasets, Techniques, Life Cycles, Management, and Applications. (pp. 13-22) edited by Pantea Keikhosrokiani . New York, NY, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-323-91907-4.00019-4
Makeham, Meredith, Ryan, Angela, Taggart, Richard, Sullivan, Clair, Sprivulis, Peter and McNeil, Keith (2021). Working as a CIO in Healthcare. The Health Information Workforce. (pp. 217-223) edited by Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Karen Day and Kathleen Gray. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81850-0_14
Journal Articles
Robertson, Alan J., Tran, Khoa A., Bennett, Carmen, Sullivan, Clair, Stark, Zornitza, Vadlamudi, Lata and Waddell, Nicola (2024). Clinically significant changes in genes and variants associated with epilepsy over time: implications for re-analysis. Scientific Reports, 14 (1) 7717, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-57976-1
Engstrom, Teyl, Lobo, Elton H., Watego, Kristie, Nelson, Carmel, Wang, Jinxiang, Wong, Howard, Kim, Sungkyung Linda, Oh, Soo In, Lawley, Michael, Gorse, Alain-Dominique, Ward, James and Sullivan, Clair (2024). Indigenous data governance approaches applied in research using routinely collected health data: a scoping review. npj Digital Medicine, 7 (1) 68, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41746-024-01070-3
Canfell, Oliver J., Woods, Leanna, Meshkat, Yasaman, Krivit, Jenna, Gunashanhar, Brinda, Slade, Christine, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2024). The impact of digital hospitals on patient and clinician experience: systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26 (1) e47715, 1-24. doi: 10.2196/47715
Samadbeik, Mahnaz, Staib, Andrew, Boyle, Justin, Khanna, Sankalp, Bosley, Emma, Bodnar, Daniel, Lind, James, Austin, Jodie A., Tanner, Sarah, Meshkat, Yasaman, de Courten, Barbora and Sullivan, Clair (2024). Patient flow in emergency departments: a comprehensive umbrella review of solutions and challenges across the health system. BMC Health Services Research, 24 (1) 274, 1-36. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10725-6
Vivanti, Angela, Murray, Eryn, Doola, Ra'eesa, Jan Hill and Sullivan, Clair M. (2024). Into the unknown: The shift in key service performance indicators after a clinical hospital department incorporates virtual service delivery options. ACI Open, 08 (01), e10-e15. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1781462
Cresswell, Kathrin, Sullivan, Clair, Theal, Jeremy, Mozaffar, Hajar and Williams, Robin (2024). Concerted adoption as an emerging strategy for digital transformation of healthcare-lessons from Australia, Canada, and England. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocae034
Hallinan, Christine Mary, Ward, Roger, Hart, Graeme K., Sullivan, Clair, Pratt, Nicole, Ng, Ashley P., Capurro, Daniel, Van Der Vegt, Anton, Liaw, Siaw-Teng, Daly, Oliver, Luxan, Blanca Gallego, Bunker, David and Boyle, Douglas (2024). Seamless EMR data access: integrated governance, digital health and the OMOP-CDM. BMJ Health and Care Informatics, 31 (1) e100953, e100953. doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2023-100953
Canning, Martin Luke, Barras, Michael, McDougall, Ross, Yerkovich, Stephanie, Coombes, Ian, Sullivan, Clair and Whitfield, Karen (2024). Defining quality indicators, pharmaceutical care bundles and outcomes of clinical pharmacy service delivery using a Delphi consensus approach. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 46 (2), 451-462. doi: 10.1007/s11096-023-01681-y
Austin, Jodie A, Barras, Michael A and Sullivan, Clair M (2023). Editorial: Digital health and prescribing: declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. Australian Prescriber, 46 (3), 46-47. doi: 10.18773/austprescr.2023.015
Kamel Rahimi, Amir, Ghadimi, Moji, van der Vegt, Anton H., Canfell, Oliver J., Pole, Jason D., Sullivan, Clair and Shrapnel, Sally (2023). Machine learning clinical prediction models for acute kidney injury: the impact of baseline creatinine on prediction efficacy. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 23 (1) 207, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s12911-023-02306-0
Austin, Jodie A., Sullivan, Clair M. and Barras, Michael (2023). Digital health and prescribing: declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future. Australian Prescriber, 46 (3), 46-47. doi: 10.18773/austprescr.2023.015
Engstrom, Teyl, McCourt, Elizabeth, Canning, Martin, Dekker, Katharine, Voussoughi, Panteha, Bennett, Oliver, North, Angela, Pole, Jason D., Donovan, Peter J. and Sullivan, Clair (2023). The impact of transition to a digital hospital on medication errors (TIME study). npj Digital Medicine, 6 (1) 133, 133. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00877-w
Woods, Leanna, Dendere, Ronald, Eden, Rebekah, Grantham, Brittany, Krivit, Jenna, Pearce, Andrew, McNeil, Keith, Green, Damian and Sullivan, Clair (2023). Perceived impact of digital health maturity on patient experience, population health, health care costs, and provider experience: mixed methods case study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25 e45868, 1-17. doi: 10.2196/45868
Scott, Ian A., Shaw, Tim, Slade, Christine, Wan, Tai T., Coorey, Craig, Johnson, Sandra L. J. and Sullivan, Clair M. (2023). Digital health competencies for the next generation of physicians. Internal Medicine Journal, 53 (6), 1042-1049. doi: 10.1111/imj.16122
Robertson, Alan J., Tran, Khoa, Patel, Chirag, Sullivan, Clair, Stark, Zornitza and Waddell, Nicola (2023). Evolution of virtual gene panels over time and implications for genomic data re-analysis. Genetics in Medicine Open, 1 (1) 100820. doi: 10.1016/j.gimo.2023.100820
Mattison, Graeme, Canfell, Oliver J., Forrester, Doug, Dobbins, Chelsea, Smith, Daniel, Reid, David and Sullivan, Clair (2023). A step in the right direction: the potential role of smartwatches to support chronic disease prevention in health care. Medical Journal of Australia, 218 (9), 1-5. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51920
Glenwright, Ben G., Simmich, Joshua, Cottrell, Michelle, O'Leary, Shaun P., Sullivan, Clair, Pole, Jason D. and Russell, Trevor (2023). Facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic patient-reported outcome and experience measures in a health care setting: a systematic review. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 7 (1) 13, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s41687-023-00554-2
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Canfell, Oliver J., Nguyen, Kim‐Huong, Comans, Tracy and Sullivan, Clair (2023). Show me the money: how do we justify spending health care dollars on digital health?. Medical Journal of Australia, 218 (2), 53-57. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51799
Woods, Leanna, Janssen, Anna, Robertson, Samantha, Morgan, Clare, Butler-Henderson, Kerryn, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2023). The typing is on the wall: Australia’s healthcare future needs a digitally capable workforce. Australian Health Review, 47 (5), 553-558. doi: 10.1071/ah23142
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Donovan, Raelene, Staib, Andrew, Ballantine, Cameron, McKavanagh, Daniel and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The digital transformation journey of a large Australian hospital: a teaching case. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 51 (1) 25, 842-865. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05134
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Duncan, Rhona, Kodiyattu, Zack, Macklin, Sophie and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Which one? A suggested approach for evaluating digital health maturity models. Frontiers in Digital Health, 4 1045685, 1045685. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.1045685
Canfell, Oliver J., Kodiyattu, Zack, Eakin, Elizabeth, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Wong, Ides, Macaulay, Caroline and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Real-world data for precision public health of noncommunicable diseases: a scoping review. BMC Public Health, 22 (1) 2166, 2166. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14452-7
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Sullivan, Clair, Eakin, Elizabeth E. and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). PREVIDE: A Qualitative Study to Develop a Decision-Making Framework (PREVention decIDE) for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention in Healthcare Organisations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (22) 15285, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215285
Woods, Leanna, Eden, Rebekah, Pearce, Andrew, Wong, Yu Ching Ides, Jayan, Lakshmi, Green, Damian, McNeil, Keith and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Evaluating digital health capability at scale using the digital health indicator. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (5), 991-1001. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1757554
Canfell, Oliver J, Meshkat, Yasaman, Kodiyattu, Zack, Engstrom, Teyl, Chan, Wilkin, Mifsud, Jayden, Pole, Jason D., Byrne, Martin, Raders, Ella Van and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Understanding the digital disruption of health care: an ethnographic study of real-time multidisciplinary clinical behavior in a new digital hospital. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (5), 1079-1091. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1758482
Baliunas, Dolly, Gartner, Coral , Hollingworth, Samantha A. , Sullivan, Clair , Comans, Tracy and Pole, Jason D. (2022). Publicly subsidised smoking cessation medicines in times of COVID-19 in Australia: an interrupted time seriesanalysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (1), 225-232. doi: 10.1111/dar.13557
Austin, Jodie Ann, Barras, Michael, Woods, Leanna Sarah and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The effect of digitisation on the safe management of anticoagulants. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (04), 845-856. doi: 10.1055/a-1910-4339
Engstrom, Teyl, Strong, Jenny, Sullivan, Clair and Pole, Jason D. (2022). A comparison of leximancer semi-automated content analysis to manual content analysis: a healthcare exemplar using emotive transcripts of COVID-19 hospital staff interactive webcasts. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 160940692211189. doi: 10.1177/16094069221118993
Schults, Jessica A., Ball, Daner L., Sullivan, Clair, Rossow, Nick, Ray-Barruel, Gillian, Walker, Rachel M., Stantic, Bela and Rickard, Claire M. (2022). Mapping progress in intravascular catheter quality surveillance: an Australian case study of electronic medical record data linkage. Frontiers in Medicine, 9 962130, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.962130
Levido, Annabel, Clement, Pierre, Gregory, Bryan, Morrey, Helena, Kirrane, Marianne, Stott, Adam, Sullivan, Clair, Jackman, Kristy, Brown, Jessica, Doubrovsky, Anna and Coyer, Fiona (2022). Virtual engagement of families in the intensive care unit during COVID-19: a descriptive survey of family members of patients and health care workers. Telemedicine and E-Health, 29 (3), 466-472. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2022.0071
Kamel Rahimi, Amir, Canfell, Oliver J., Chan, Wilkin, Sly, Benjamin, Pole, Jason D., Sullivan, Clair and Shrapnel, Sally (2022). Machine learning models for diabetes management in acute care using electronic medical records: a systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 162 104758, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104758
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Woods, Leanna, Sullivan, Clair, Cocoros, Noelle M., Klompas, Michael, Zambarano, Bob, Eakin, Elizabeth, Littlewood, Robyn and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). Precision public health for non-communicable diseases: an emerging strategic roadmap and multinational use cases. Frontiers in Public Health, 10 854525, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.854525
Duncan, Rhona, Eden, Rebekah, Woods, Leanna, Wong, Ides and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Synthesizing dimensions of digital maturity in hospitals: systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (3) e32994, e32994. doi: 10.2196/32994
Canfell, Oliver J., Davidson, Kamila, Sullivan, Clair, Eakin, Elizabeth and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2022). Data sources for precision public health of obesity: a scoping review, evidence map and use case in Queensland, Australia. BMC Public Health, 22 (1) 584, 584. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12939-x
Nguyen, Kim-Huong, Wright, Chad, Simpson, Digby, Woods, Leanna, Comans, Tracy and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Economic evaluation and analyses of hospital-based electronic medical records (EMRs): a scoping review of international literature. npj Digital Medicine, 5 (1) 29, 29. doi: 10.1038/s41746-022-00565-1
Lim, Han Chang, Austin, Jodie A., van der Vegt, Anton H., Rahimi, Amir Kamel, Canfell, Oliver J., Mifsud, Jayden, Pole, Jason D., Barras, Michael A., Hodgson, Tobias, Shrapnel, Sally and Sullivan, Clair M. (2022). Toward a learning health care system: a systematic review and evidence-based conceptual framework for implementation of clinical analytics in a digital hospital. Applied Clinical Informatics, 13 (02), 339-354. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1743243
Apte, Simon H., Tan, Maxine E., Lutzky, Viviana P., De Silva, Tharushi A., Fiene, Andreas, Hundloe, Justin, Deller, David, Sullivan, Clair, Bell, Peter T. and Chambers, Daniel C. (2022). Alveolar crystal burden in stone workers with artificial stone silicosis. Respirology, 27 (6), 437-446. doi: 10.1111/resp.14229
Mattison, Graeme, Canfell, Oliver, Forrester, Douglas, Dobbins, Chelsea, Smith, Daniel, Töyräs, Juha and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The influence of wearables on healthcare outcomes in chronic disease: a systematic review (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (7) e36690, e36690. doi: 10.2196/36690
Robertson, Alan J., Tan, Natalie B., Spurdle, Amanda B., Metke-Jimenez, Alejandro, Sullivan, Clair and Waddell, Nicola (2022). Reanalysis of genomic data: an overview of the mechanisms and complexities of clinical adoption. Genetics in Medicine, 24 (4), 798-810. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.12.011
Sly, Benjamin, Russell, Anthony W and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Digital interventions to improve safety and quality of inpatient diabetes management: a systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 157 104596, 104596. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104596
Schults, Jessica, Paterson, Rebecca, Kleidon, Tricia, Cooke, Marie, Ullman, Amanda, McNeil, Keith, Chopra, Vineet, Charles, Karina, Ray-Barruel, Gillian, Marsh, Nicole, Sullivan, Clair, Sturgess, David J. and Rickard, Claire (2021). Understanding consumer preference for vascular access safety and quality measurement: an international survey. Australian Health Review, 46 (1), 12-20. doi: 10.1071/AH21053
Canfell, Oliver J., Littlewood, Robyn, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2021). Digital health and precision prevention: shifting from disease-centred care to consumer-centred health. Australian Health Review, 46 (3), 279-283. doi: 10.1071/ah21063
Strong, J., Drummond, S., Hanson, J., Pole, J. D., Engstrom, T., Copeland, K., Lipman, B. and Sullivan, C. (2021). Outcomes of rapid digital transformation of large-scale communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian Health Review, 45 (6), 696-703. doi: 10.1071/ah21125
Hodgson, Tobias, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Donovan, Raelene and Sullivan, Clair (2021). The role of electronic medical records in reducing unwarranted clinical variation in acute health care: systematic review. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9 (11) e30432, e30432. doi: 10.2196/30432
Dyda, Amalie, Fahim, Magid, Fraser, Jon, Kirrane, Marianne, Wong, Ides, McNeil, Keith, Ruge, Maree, Lau, Colleen L. and Sullivan, Clair (2021). Managing the digital disruption associated with COVID-19-driven rapid digital transformation in Brisbane, Australia. Applied Clinical Informatics, 12 (5), 1135-1143. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1740190
Dendere, Ronald, Janda, Monika and Sullivan, Clair (2021). Are we doing it right? We need to evaluate the current approaches for implementation of digital health systems. Australian Health Review, 45 (6), 778-781. doi: 10.1071/ah20289
Mann, Kay Debby, Good, Norm, Fatehi, Farhad, Khanna, Sankalp, Campbell, Victoria, Conway, Roger, Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, Joyce, Chris and Cook, David (2021). Review of tools for the prediction of patient deterioration in the digital hospital setting. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23 (9) e28209, e28209. doi: 10.2196/28209
Austin, Jodie A., Barras, Michael A. and Sullivan, Clair M. (2021). Safe and effective digital anticoagulation: a continuous iterative improvement approach. ACI Open, 05 (02), e116-e124. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1736631
Engstrom, Teyl, Baliunas, Dolly O., Sly, Benjamin P., Russell, Anthony W., Donovan, Peter J., Krausse, Heike K., Sullivan, Clair M. and Pole, Jason D. (2021). Toilet paper, minced meat and diabetes medicines: Australian panic buying induced by COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (13) 6954, 1-9. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136954
Desselle, Mathilde R, Kirrane, Marianne, Chao, Ian T, Coles Black, Jasamine, Woodruff, Maria A, Chuen, Jason and Sullivan, Clair (2021). Evaluating the safety and effectiveness of novel personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical Journal of Australia, 214 (11), 496-499.e1. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51091
Sullivan, Clair, Wong, Ides, Adams, Emily, Fahim, Magid, Fraser, Jon, Ranatunga, Gihan, Busato, Matthew and McNeil, Keith (2021). Moving faster than the COVID-19 pandemic: the rapid, digital transformation of a public health system. Applied Clinical Informatics, 12 (2), 229-236. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1725186
Kirrane, Marianne D., Shrapnel, Sally, Ramanan, Mahesh, Clement, Pierre, Fraser, John F., Laupland, Kevin B., Sullivan, Clair M. and Shekar, Kiran (2021). Intensive care digital health response to emerging infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 49 (2), 0310057X2097577-111. doi: 10.1177/0310057x20975777
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). Surveying perceptions of the early impacts of an integrated electronic medical record across a hospital and healthcare service. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 690-698. doi: 10.1071/AH19157
Burton-Jones, Andrew, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Ayre, Stephen, Barde, Payal, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). Changing the conversation on evaluating digital transformation in healthcare: insights from an institutional analysis. Information and Organization, 30 (1) 100255, 100255. doi: 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2019.100255
Austin, Jodie, Barras, Michael and Sullivan, Clair (2020). Interventions designed to improve the safety and quality of therapeutic anticoagulation in an inpatient electronic medical record. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 135 104066, 104066. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.104066
Smith, Natalie, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). From benefits idealisation to value optimisation: application in the digital health context. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 706-722. doi: 10.1071/ah19255
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Grant, James, Collins, Renea, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). Digitising an Australian university hospital: qualitative analysis of staff-reported impacts. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 677-689. doi: 10.1071/AH18218
Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, McNeil, Keith, Rosengren, David and Johnson, Ian (2019). Queensland Digital Health Clinical Charter: A clinical consensus statement on priorities for digital health in hospitals. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 661-665. doi: 10.1071/AH19067
Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair, Cabilan, Cara Joyce, Cattell, Rohan and Eley, Rob (2019). Digital transformation of the emergency department-inpatient interface (EDii): integration for future innovation. Australian Health Review, 44 (5), 666-671. doi: 10.1071/AH18176
Dendere, Ronald, Slade, Christine, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew and Janda, Monika (2019). Patient portals facilitating engagement with inpatient electronic medical records: a systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21 (4) e12779, e12779. doi: 10.2196/12779
Barnett, Amy, Winning, Michelle, Canaris, Stephen, Cleary, Michael, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2018). Digital transformation of hospital quality and safety: real-time data for real-time action. Australian Health Review, 43 (6), 656-661. doi: 10.1071/AH18125
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Scott, Ian, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2018). Effects of eHealth on hospital practice: synthesis of the current literature. Australian Health Review, 42 (5), 568-578. doi: 10.1071/AH17255
Scott, Ian A., Sullivan, Clair and Staib, Andrew (2018). Going digital: a checklist in preparing for hospital-wide electronic medical record implementation and digital transformation. Australian Health Review, 43 (3), 302-313. doi: 10.1071/AH17153
Sullivan, Clair and Staib, Andrew (2018). Digital disruption 'syndromes' in a hospital: Important considerations for the quality and safety of patient care during rapid digital transformation. Australian Health Review, 42 (3), 294-298. doi: 10.1071/AH16294
Scott, Ian, Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew and Bell, Anthony (2018). Deconstructing the 4-h rule for access to emergency care and putting patients first. Australian Health Review, 42 (6), 698-702. doi: 10.1071/AH17083
Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair, Prins, Johannes B., Burton-Jones, Andrew, Fitzgerald, Gerry and Scott, Ian (2017). Uniting emergency and inpatient clinicians across the ED-inpatient interface: The last frontier?. Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA, 29 (6), 740-745. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12883
Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair, Jones, Matt, Griffin, Bronwyn, Bell, Anthony and Scott, Ian (2017). The ED-inpatient dashboard: uniting emergency and inpatient clinicians to improve the efficiency and quality of care for patients requiring emergency admission to hospital. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 29 (3), 363-366. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12661
Keasberry, Justin, Scott, Ian A., Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew and Ashby, Richard (2017). Going digital: a narrative overview of the clinical and organisational impacts of eHealth technologies in hospital practice. Australian Health Review, 41 (6), 646-664. doi: 10.1071/AH16233
White, Kyle, Scott, Ian A., Bernard, Anne, McCulloch, Kirsty, Vaux, Amanda, Joyce, Chris and Sullivan, Clair M. (2016). Patient characteristics, interventions and outcomes of 1,151 rapid response team activations in a tertiary hospital: a prospective study. Internal Medicine Journal, 46 (12), 1398-1406. doi: 10.1111/imj.13248
Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, Ayre, Stephen, Daly, Michael, Collins, Renea, Draheim, Michael and Ashby, Richard (2016). Pioneering digital disruption: Australia's first integrated digital tertiary hospital. Medical Journal of Australia, 205 (9), 386-389. doi: 10.5694/mja16.00476
Lawrence, Sean, Sullivan, Clair, Patel, Nadia, Spencer, Lyndall, Sinnott, Michael and Eley, Rob (2016). Admission of medical patients from the emergency department: an assessment of the attitudes, perspectives and practices of internal medicine and emergency medicine trainees. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 28 (4), 391-398. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12604
Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, Khanna, Sankalp, Good, Norm M., Boyle, Justin, Cattell, Rohan, Heiniger, Liam, Griffin, Bronwyn R., Bell, Anthony Jr., Lind, James and Scott, Ian A. (2016). The national emergency access target (NEAT) and the 4-hour rule: time to review the target. Medical Journal of Australia, 204 (9), 354.e1-354.e5. doi: 10.5694/mja15.01177
Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair, Griffin, Bronwyn, Bell, Anthony and Scott, Ian (2016). Report on the 4-h rule and National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) in Australia: time to review. Australian Health Review, 40 (3), 319-323. doi: 10.1071/AH15071
Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, Eley, Rob, Griffin, Bronwyn, Cattell, Rohan, Flores, Judy and Scott, Ian (2016). Who is less likely to die in association with improved National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) compliance for emergency admissions in a tertiary referral hospital?. Australian Health Review, 40 (2), 149-154. doi: 10.1071/AH14242
White, K., Scott, I.A., Vaux, A. and Sullivan, C.M. (2015). Rapid response teams in adult hospitals: Time for another look?. Internal Medicine Journal, 45 (12), 1211-1220. doi: 10.1111/imj.12845
Sullivan, Clair, Staib, Andrew, Eley, Rob, Scanlon, Alan, Flores, Judy and Scott, Ian (2015). NEAT metrics of the emergency department–inpatient interface: measures of patient flow and mortality for emergency admissions to hospital. Australian Health Review, 39 (5), 533-538. doi: 10.1071/AH14162
Patel, Nadia, Inder, Warrick J., Sullivan, Clair and Kaye, Gerald (2014). An audit of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis - do anti-thyroid drugs alone provide adequate treatment?. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 23 (6), 549-554. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2014.01.013
Sullivan, Clair M., Staib, Andrew, Flores, Judy, Aggarwal, Leena, Scanlon, Alan, Martin, Jennifer H. and Scott, Ian A. (2014). Aiming to be NEAT: safely improving and sustaining access to emergency care in a tertiary referral hospital. Australian Health Review, 38 (5), 564-574. doi: 10.1071/AH14083
Wright, Olivia R. L., Hickman, Ingrid J., Petchey, William G., Sullivan, Clair M., Ong, Cynthia, Rose, Felicity J., Ng, Choaping, Prins, Johannes B., Whitehead, Jonathan P. and O'Moore-Sullivan, Trisha M. (2013). The effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D on insulin sensitivity in obesity: is it mediated via adiponectin?. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 91 (6), 496-501. doi: 10.1139/cjpp-2012-0436
Hickman, I. J., Sullivan, C. M., Flight, S., Campbell, C., Crawford, D. H., Masci, P. P., O'Moore-Sullivan, T. M., Prins, J. B. and Macdonald, G. A. (2009). Altered clot kinetics in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Annals of Hepatology, 8 (4), 331-338. doi: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)31746-6
Petoumenos, Kathy, Ringland, C., Goodman, R., Gotowski, M., Couldwell, D., Lewis, L., Austin, D., Block, M., Quan, D., Gowers, A., Brown, K., Skobalj, N., O'Connor, C., Mitchell, M., Templeton, D., Liang, M. T., Allen, D., Strazdinis, B., Mulhall, B., Smith, D., Mutimer, K., Armishaw, J., Cooper, D., Carr, A., Lacey, M., Pell, C., Rohrsheim, R., Finlayson, R., Richardson, R. ... Moore, C. (2005). Antiretroviral treatment change among HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus co-infected patients in the Australian HIV Observational Database. HIV Medicine, 6 (3), 155-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2005.00280.x
Sullivan, Clair M., Futers, T. Simon, Barrett, Jennifer H., Hudson, Barry I., Freeman, Mark S. and Grant, Peter J. (2005). RAGE polymorphisms and the heritability of insulin resistance: The Leeds Family Study. Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, 2 (1), 42-44. doi: 10.3132/dvdr.2005.005
Conference Papers
Hodgson, Toby, Burton-Jones, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2022). Addressing unwarranted clinical variation in healthcare as a quality improvement process. 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Virtual, 4-7 January 2022. Mānoa, HI Australia: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2022.474
Eden, Rebekah, Burton-Jones, Andrew, Ballantine, Cameron, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2020). The transformation of Australia’s first large digital hospital: a teaching case. International Conference on Information Systems, Online, 13-16 December 2020. New York, NY United States: Association for Information Systems.
Eden, Rebekah, Akhlaghpour, Saeed, Spee, Paul, Staib, Andrew, Sullivan, Clair and Burton-Jones, Andrew (2018). Unpacking the Complexity of Consistency: Insights from a Grounded Theory Study of the Effective Use of Electronic Medical Records. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, United States, 3-6 January 2018. Hawaii, United States: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2018.381
Lawley, Michael, Truran, Donna, Hansen, David, Good, Norm, Staib, Andrew and Sullivan, Clair (2017). Snomap: Pioneering the path for clinical coding to improve patient care. 25th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2017, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6 - 9 August 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-783-2-55
Patel, N., Inder, W., Sullivan, C. and Kaye, G. (2013). Surgical thyroidectomy in cardiac patients with amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis. Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting and the International Society for Heart Research Australasian Section Annual Scientific Meeting, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 8 - 11 August 2013. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: Elsevier Australia. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2013.05.537
Hickman, I. J., Sullivan, C. M., Flight, S., Campbell, C., Crawford, D. H., Masci, P. P., O'Moore-Sullivan, T. M., Prins, J. B. and Macdonald, G. A. (2008). Obesity is linked with increased clot strength and impaired fibrinolysis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. 16th European Congress on Obesity, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-17 May 2008. LONDON: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP.
Seminar Papers
Sullivan, Clair and Ferris, Jason (2022). Digital health: Current state and future. Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Clair, Ferris, Jason and Gorse, Dominique (2022). Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022: What it means for research. Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland.