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Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy: a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial in Western Australia

The infant simulator-based Virtual Infant Parenting programme did not achieve its aim of reducing teenage pregnancy

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Maternal ethnicity, stillbirth and neonatal death risk in Western Australia 1998–2010

Difference in stillbirth and neonatal death rates in Western Australia (1998-2010) by maternal ethnicity

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High expression of connective tissue growth factor accelerates dissemination of leukaemia

Functional role of CTGF in altering disease progression in a lymphoid malignancy

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Addressing the challenges of cross-jurisdictional data linkage between a national clinical quality registry and government-held health data

Describing the challenges of obtaining state and nationally held data for linkage to a non-government national clinical registry

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Declining rates of sterilization procedures in Western Australian women from 1990 to 2008: The relationship with age, hospital type, and government policy changes

Rates of female sterilization procedures in Western Australia have declined substantially across all age groups in the last two decades

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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Non Cognitive Skills in Early Primary Grades: Evidence from Rural Indonesia

This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 9 in rural Indonesia

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Changes in risk factors for preterm birth in Western Australia 1984-2006

Marked increases in maternal age and primiparous births were observed. A four-fold increase in the rates of pre-existing medical complications over time...

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Twenty years of surveillance in Rett syndrome: what does this tell us?

This study aimed to describe overall survival and adult health in those with Rett syndrome.

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Connective tissue growth factor is expressed in bone marrow stromal cells and promotes interleukin-7-dependent B lymphopoiesis

Hematopoiesis occurs in a complex bone marrow microenvironment in which bone marrow stromal cells provide critical support to the process through direct cell...