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David Peiris
Researcher at The George Institute for Global Health
Publications - 174
Citations - 4151
David Peiris is an academic researcher from The George Institute for Global Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 142 publications receiving 3097 citations. Previous affiliations of David Peiris include Harvard University & University of Sydney.
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Task Shifting for Non-Communicable Disease Management in Low and Middle Income Countries – A Systematic Review
Rohina Joshi,Mohammed Alim,Andre Pascal Kengne,Stephen Jan,Pallab K. Maulik,David Peiris,Anushka Patel +6 more
TL;DR: Task-shifting from physicians to NPHWs, if accompanied by health system re-structuring is a potentially effective and affordable strategy for improving access to healthcare for NCDs.
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A pragmatic randomized trial of a polypill-based strategy to improve use of indicated preventive treatments in people at high cardiovascular disease risk
Anushka Patel,Alan Cass,David Peiris,Tim Usherwood,Alex Brown,Stephen Jan,Bruce Neal,Graham S. Hillis,Natasha Rafter,Andrew Tonkin,Ruth Webster,Laurent Billot,Severine Bompoint,Carol Burch,Hugh Burke,Noel Hayman,Barbara Molanus,Christopher M. Reid,Louise Shiel,Samantha J. Togni,Anthony Rodgers +20 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aimed to determine whether fixed dose combinations of generic drugs can achieve optimal preventive drugs for individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk worldwide.
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Cardiovascular risk perception and evidence--practice gaps in Australian general practice (the AusHEART study).
Emma Heeley,David Peiris,Anushka Patel,Alan Cass,Andrew Weekes,Claire Morgan,Craig S. Anderson,John Chalmers +7 more
TL;DR: The perception and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Australian primary care is examined to examine the perceived risk and the management of the risk in patients' lives.
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Gaps in cardiovascular disease risk management in Australian general practice.
TL;DR: To evaluate the management of cardiovascular disease risk in Australian general practice, a large number of patients with a history of CVD are referred to general practice for routine check-ups.
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Use of mHealth Systems and Tools for Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review
TL;DR: Encouragingly, some registered clinical trial protocols of large-scale, multidimensional mHealth interventions are identified, suggesting that the current limited evidence base will expand in coming years.