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Professor
Jacqueline Close
Current Appointments
Principal Research Fellow, NeuRA (Conjoint)
Conjoint Professor, UNSW
Consultant Geriatrician, Prince of Wales Hospital
Key Research Areas
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Prof Jacqui Close is a consultant in Orthogeriatrics at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and Clinical Director of the Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre at Neuroscience Research Australia. Her primary research area is falls in people with cognitive impairment and dementia and particularly the relationship of cognitive function to postural stability, falls and fractures. She also has an epidemiological interest in the impact of falls and injury to health service use and the way in which health services are designed to prevent and manage falls and injury in older people. She sits on a number of State and National committees in relation to Aged Health and is Co-Chair of the ANZ Hip Fracture Registry, Chair of the ACSQHC Clinical Care Standards Working Group for Hip Fracture and the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine.
Publications
2023, 16 Mar
The impact of cement fixation on early mortality in arthroplasty for hip fracture
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.43.BJO-2023-0006.R1
2023, 15 Jan
Big Data - Big Opportunity
View full other on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac262
2022, 06 Nov
Fall-related health service use in Stepping On program participants and matched controls: A non-randomised observational trial within the 45 and Up Study
View full other on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac272
2022
Linking health service utilisation and mortality data-unravelling what happens after fall-related paramedic care
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85123901162&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2022
Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures in Residential Aged Care: Updated Consensus Recommendations
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85123727799&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2021, 30 Oct
Scale‐up of the Stepping On fall prevention program amongst older adults in NSW: Program reach and fall‐related health service use
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.413
2021
Access to rehabilitation services for older adults living with dementia or in a residential aged care facility following a hip fracture: healthcare professionals’ views
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103057960&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2021
Care of Older People in Surgery for general surgery: a single centre experience
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2021
Co-designing a dashboard of predictive analytics and decision support to drive care quality and client outcomes in aged care: A mixed-method study protocol
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85113956154&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2021
Cognitive Domain Associations with Balance Performance in Community-Dwelling Older People with Cognitive Impairment
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85106939960&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Jacqueline's research team
Christina Norris
PhD student
Narelle Payne
Research assistant
Elizabeth Armstrong
Senior Research Facility Manager
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