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Balmain Hospital Research
Balmain Hospital’s innovation and research involves continually learning, evaluating, improving and thinking in new ways.
Health and medical research aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people and is undertaken in a complex environment. It draws on our knowledge of the body and the environment to find ways to identify, cure and prevent disease, reduce injury and disability, improve the delivery of health services and help us to lead healthier lives.
Our culture, management and business processes support research, evaluation and innovation. Balmain Hospital is a leader in the provision of aged care and rehabilitation services. The hospital is focused on its collaborative networks and continues to promote Balmain Hospital as a preferred site for aged care and rehabilitation research. The hospital engages with patients, families and consumers meaningfully to ensure opportunities to participate in research and clinical trials.
The Centre for STRONG Medicine is a leading research facility. STRONG uses exercise-based medicine to treat disease in older people. Diseases which are specifically targeted by STRONG Medicine include conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, depression, stroke, osteoporosis and diabetes. It is the first centre of its kind in Australia and has been serving inpatients and outpatients at Balmain Hospital since 1999.
Our Publications
2024
| Barakat-Johnson M, Lai M, Basjarahil S, Campbell J, Cunich M, Disher G, Geering S, Ko N, Leahy C, Leong T, McClure E, O'Grady M, Walsh J, White K, Coyer F. Patients' experience of incontinence and incontinence-associated dermatitis in hospital settings: a qualitative study. J Wound Care. 2024 Aug 1;33(Sup8a):cxcix-ccvii. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2021.0394. |
| Bishop JA, Spencer LM, Dwyer TJ, McKeough ZJ, McAnulty A, Cheng S, Alison JA. Patterns of physical activity of people with COPD during participation in a pulmonary rehabilitation program. Respir Med. 2024 Sep;231:107724. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2024.107724. Epub 2024 Jul 4. |
| Reeves JM, Spencer LM, Tsai LL, Baillie AJ, Han Y, Leung RWM, Bishop JA, Troy LK, Corte TJ, Teoh AKY, Peters M, Barton C, Jones L, Alison JA. Effect of a 4-Week Telerehabilitation Program for People With Post-COVID Syndrome on Physical Function and Symptoms: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. Phys Ther. 2024 Sep 4;104(9):pzae080. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzae080. |
| Barakat-Johnson M, Basjarahil S, Campbell J, Cunich M, Disher G, Geering S, Ko N, Lai M, Leahy C, Leong T, McClure E, O'Grady M, Walsh J, White K, Coyer F. Corrigendum to "Implementing best available evidence into practice for incontinence-associated dermatitis in Australia: A multisite multimethod study protocol" [J. Tissue Viability 30 (2021) 67-77]. J Tissue Viability. 2024 Feb;33(1):150. doi: 10.1016/j.jtv.2023.11.006. Epub 2023 Dec 9. Erratum for: J Tissue Viability. 2021 Feb;30(1):67-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jtv.2020.10.002. |
| El-Wahsh S, Greenup D, White G, Thompson EO, Aggarwal A, Fulham MJ, Halmagyi GM. Diaschisis: a mechanism for subcortical aphasia? J Neurol. 2022 Apr;269(4):2219-2221. doi: 10.1007/s00415-021-10861-7. Epub 2021 Oct 24. PMID: 34689219. |
| Zhao RR, Mavros Y, Meiklejohn J, Anderberg KA, Singh N, Kay S, Baker MK, Wang Y, Climstein M, O'Sullivan A, De Vos N, Baune BT, Blair SN, Simar D, Fiatarone Singh MA. Effect of High-Intensity Power Training on Cognitive Function in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Secondary Outcomes of the GREAT2DO Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 Oct 6;77(10):1975-1985. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glac090. PMID: 35436329; PMCID: PMC9536451. |
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Bishop JA, Spencer LM, Dwyer TJ, McKeough ZJ, McAnulty A, Alison JA. Changes in Exercise Capacity and Health-Related Quality of Life at Four and Eight Weeks of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in People with COPD. COPD. 2021 Dec;18(6):612-620. doi: 10.1080/15412555.2021.2013793. Epub 2021 Dec 19. PMID: 34927525. |
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Gibson W, Johnson T, Kirschner-Hermanns R, Kuchel G, Markland A, Orme S, Ostaszkiewicz J, Szonyi G, Wyman J, Wagg A. Incontinence in frail elderly persons: Report of the 6th International Consultation on Incontinence. Neurourol Urodyn. 2021 Jan;40(1):38-54. doi: 10.1002/nau.24549. Epub 2020 Oct 21. PMID: 33085806. |
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Monaro S, Pinkova J, Ko N, Stromsmoe N, Gullick J. Chronic wound care delivery in wound clinics, community nursing and residential aged care settings: A qualitative analysis using Levine's Conservation Model. J Clin Nurs. 2021 May;30(9-10):1295-1311. doi: 10.1111/jocn.15674. Epub 2021 Feb 15. PMID: 33506537. |
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Mosalman Haghighi M, Mavros Y, Kay S, Simpson KA, Baker MK, Wang Y, Zhao RR, Meiklejohn J, Climstein M, O'Sullivan AJ, De Vos N, Baune BT, Blair SN, Simar D, Singh N, Schlicht J, Fiatarone Singh MA. The Effect of High-Intensity Power Training on Habitual, Intervention and Total Physical Activity Levels in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Secondary Outcomes of the GREAT2DO Randomized Controlled Trial. Geriatrics (Basel). 2021 Feb 8;6(1):15. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics6010015. PMID: 33567586; PMCID: PMC7930974. |
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Bishop J, Spencer L, Alison J. Effect of a pulmonary rehabilitation programme of 8 weeks compared to 12 weeks duration on exercise capacity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (PuRe Duration): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2020 Sep;7(1):e000687. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000687. PMID: 32933927; PMCID: PMC7493114. |
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McCluskey A, Massie L, Gibson G, Pinkerton L, Vandenberg A. Increasing the delivery of upper limb constraint-induced movement therapy post-stroke: A feasibility implementation study. Aust Occup Ther J. 2020 Jun;67(3):237-249. doi: 10.1111/1440-1630.12647. Epub 2020 Feb 18. PMID: 32072656. |