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Dr Kumara Mendis

Senior Lecturer
Medicine, School of Rural Health

11 Moran Drive (PO Box 1043) Dubbo NSW 2830
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Biographical details

Kumara Mendis is a Senior Lecturer Rural Health at the School of Rural Health (SRH)in Dubbo where he overses the four specialty blocks. He is a member of the Disicipline of General Practice. He has been involved in teaching of evidence based medicine at the SRH, Westmead and Central Clinical Schools and Broken Hill UDRH from 2007. Kumara's subspeciality is medical informatics.

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Research interests

Kumara's main research interest is using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of health care. His interest in electronic medical records, evidence-based medicine, mobile phone SMS to control weight problems in young adult males and web-based teaching learning methods directly relates to the use of ICT to improve health care. Kumara's informatics research also includes the use of bibliometric methods to evaluate and track how health care domains like general practice, medical informatics, rural health performance. In addition he has used bibliometric analysis to track health and medical research funding in Australia.

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Teaching areas

Evidence Based Medicine, General Practice, Medical Informatics,

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Keywords

Evidence-based medicine; Obesity & overweight; Adolescent health; Informatics; Medical education

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Publications

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008 | 2007

2012

   
  • Brendt, P., Schnekenburger, M., Paxton, K., Brown, A., Mendis, K. (2012), Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure before, during, and after Fixed-Wing Air Medical Retrieval. Prehospital Emergency Care. 17(2), 177-180. [Abstract]

2011

   
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  • de Lusignan, S., Liaw, S., Krause, P., Curcin, V., Vicente, M., Michalakidis, G., Agreus, L., Leysen, P., Shaw, N., Mendis, K. (2011), Key Concepts to Assess the Readiness of Data for International Research: Data Quality, Lineage and Provenance, Extraction and Processing Errors, Traceability, and Curation. Contribution of the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics Working Group. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 6(1), 112-120. [Abstract]
  • de Lusignan, S., Pearce, C., Kumarapeli, P., Stavropoulou, C., Kushniruk, A., Sheikh, A., Shachak, A., Mendis, K. (2011), Reporting Observational Studies of the Use of Information Technology in the Clinical Consultation. A Position Statement from the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics Working Group (IMIA PCI WG). Yearbook of Medical Informatics. 6(1), 39-47. [Abstract]

2010

   
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  • Mendis, K., van Weel, C., Del Mar, C., Jones, R. (2010), Citation, citation, citation. British Journal of General Practice. 60(577), 561-562. [Abstract]
  • Mendis, K., Kidd, M., Schattner, P., Canalese, J. (2010), A bibliometric analysis of Australian general practice publications from 1980 to 2007 using PubMed. Informatics in primary care. 18(4), 223-33. [Abstract]

2008

   
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  • McLean, R., Mendis, K., Canalese, J. (2008), A ten-year retrospective study of unplanned hospital readmissions to a regional Australian hospital. Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association. 32(3), 537-547. [Abstract]

2007

   
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  • McLean, R., Mendis, K., Harris, B., Canalese, J. (2007), Retrospective bibliometric review of rural health research: Australia's contribution and other trends. Rural and remote health. 7(4), 767. [Abstract]
  • Mendis, K. (2007), Health informatics research in Australia: retrospective analysis using PubMed. Informatics in primary care. 15(1), 17-23. [Abstract]