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Skye N. McLennan

Researcher at Australian Catholic University

Publications -  39
Citations -  1363

Skye N. McLennan is an academic researcher from Australian Catholic University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Prospective memory. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1200 citations. Previous affiliations of Skye N. McLennan include University of Queensland & University of Adelaide.

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Interventions to prevent back pain and back injury in nurses: a systematic review

TL;DR: Moderate level evidence from multiple trials that manual handling training in isolation is not effective and multidimensional interventions are effective in preventing back pain and injury in nurses are identified.
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Validity of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as a Screening Test for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in a Cardiovascular Population

TL;DR: The poor specificity of the MoCA suggests that it will have limited value as a screening test for MCI in settings where the overall prevalence of MCI is low.
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Prognostic importance of cognitive impairment in chronic heart failure patients: does specialist management make a difference?

TL;DR: Cognitive impairment is common among chronic heart failure (CHF) patients and should not be considered a cause for concern, according to the World Health Organization.
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Uncovering a hidden epidemic: a study of the current burden of heart failure in Australia.

TL;DR: ABS data for the year 2000 were used in combination with contemporary, well-validated population-based epidemiologic data to estimate the number of individuals with symptomatic and asymptomatic heart failure related to both preserved (diastolic dysfunction) and impaired left ventricular systolic (dys)function (LVSD) and rates of HF-related hospitalisation.
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The depression-executive dysfunction (DED) syndrome and response to antidepressants: a meta-analytic review.

TL;DR: A meta‐analysis was undertaken to assess the evidence for the DED model, which predicts that cognitive impairment, particularly executive dysfunction, is associated with poor response to antidepressant medication.