Dr Lixin Ou

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Public Health and Health Services, Epidemiology, Community Child Health, Indigenous Health

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+61 2 9385 8884

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+61 2 9385 8692

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lixin.ou@unsw.edu.au

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Dr Lixin Ou is a Research Fellow at the Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School/ Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales. She has a broad range of research interests in health policy and health services research, specifically patient safety, quality of health care, health inequality, health services utilisation. Her research experience involves effective discharge planning, literature review in patient safety, quality of health care and social epidemiology. Her PhD research focuses on the assessment of disparities in health status and health services utilisation among ethnic and Indigenous Australian children by both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches.

Broad Research Areas:

Public Health and Health Services Research
Epidemiology
Patient Safety
Community Child Health
Data Linkage

Qualifications:

BEng, MBA, MPH, PhD

Specific Research Keywords:

Patient Safety, Medical Emergency / Rapid Response Team, Health Inequalities and Inequities, Health Services Utilisation

Current Project Work:

Evaluating the effectiveness of introducing Medical Emergency Team (MET) on the reduction of hospital mortality and other adverse events in NSW
An ongoing nationally representative longitudinal study in children’s health services utilisation and health outcomes, using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC).

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Journal articles

Ou L; Chen J; Burrell T; Flabouris A; Hillman K; Bellomo R; Parr M, 2016, 'Incidence and mortality of post-operative sepsis in new south wales, australia, 2002–2009', Critical Care and Resuscitation, vol. 18, pp. 9 - 16

Chen J; Bellomo R; Flabouris A; Hillman K; Assareh H; Ou L, 2015, 'Delayed emergency team calls and associated hospital mortality: A multicenter study', Critical Care Medicine, vol. 43, pp. 2059 - 2065, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000001192

Assareh H; Chen J; Ou L; Hollis SJ; Hillman K; Flabouris A, 2014, 'Rate of venous thromboembolism among surgical patients in Australian hospitals: A multicentre retrospective cohort study', BMJ Open, vol. 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005502

Assareh H; Ou L; Chen J; Hillman K; Flabouris A; Hollis SJ, 2014, 'Geographic variation of failure-to-rescue in public acute hospitals in New South Wales, Australia', PLoS ONE, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109807

Chen J; Ou L; Hillman K; Flabouris A; Bellomo R; Hollis SJ; Assareh H, 2014, 'The impact of implementing a rapid response system: A comparison of cardiopulmonary arrests and mortality among four teaching hospitals in Australia', Resuscitation, vol. 85, pp. 1275 - 1281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.003

Chen J; Ou L; Hillman KM; Flabouris A; Bellomo R; Hollis SJ; Assareh H, 2014, 'Cardiopulmonary arrest and mortality trends, and their association with rapid response system expansion', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 201, pp. 167 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00019

Ou L; Chen J; Assareh H; Hollis SJ; Hillman K; Flabouris A, 2014, 'Trends and variations in the rates of hospital complications, failure-to-rescue and 30-day mortality in surgical patients in New South Wales, Australia, 2002-2009', PLoS ONE, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096164

Chen J; Ou L; Hollis SJ, 2014, 'How accurate are the different predictive models in identifying deteriorating patients? the ViEWS may not be as clear as we first thought', Critical Care Medicine, vol. 42, pp. 986 - 987, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000000109

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman K, 2013, 'Trends in general practice services in two cohorts of Australian children between 2003-2004 and 2010-2011', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 199, pp. 460 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja13.10105

Chen J; Ou L; Hollis SJ, 2013, 'A systematic review of the impact of routine collection of patient reported outcome measures on patients, providers and health organisations in an oncologic setting', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-211

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman K, 2012, 'Have the health gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous Australian children changed over time? Results from an Australian national representative longitudinal study', Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 16, pp. 814 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-011-0786-9

Ou L; Chen J; Garrett P; Hillman K, 2011, 'Ethnic and Indigenous access to early childhood healthcare services in Australia: Parents' perceived unmet needs and related barriers', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 35, pp. 30 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00633.x

Ou L; Chen J; Young L; Santiano N; Baramy LS; Hillman K, 2011, 'Effective discharge planning timely assignment of an estimated date of discharge', Australian Health Review, vol. 35, pp. 357 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH09843

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman K; Eastwood J, 2010, 'The comparison of health status and health services utilisation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous infants in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 34, pp. 50 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00473.x

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman K, 2010, 'Health services utilisation disparities between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants', BMC Public Health, vol. 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-182

Ou L; Young L; Chen J; Santiano N; Baramy LS; Hillman K, 2009, 'Discharge delay in acute care: Reasons and determinants of delay in general ward patients', Australian Health Review, vol. 33, pp. 513 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AH090513

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Conference Presentations

Conference Abstracts

Chen J; Ou L; Hillman K; Flabouris A, 2016, 'THE POST-DISCHARGE LONG-TERM MORTALITY AND CARE BURDEN AMONG ELECTIVE SURGICAL PATIENTS WITH POSTOPERATIVE SEPSIS', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, Vol. 28, pp. 63 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzw104.100

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman KM, 2011, 'Have the health gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous children changed over time? - results from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children', CRIAH Aboriginal Health Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, presented at CRIAH Aboriginal Health Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 05 - 06 May 2011

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman KM, 2011, 'Parents' perceived unmet needs in childhood healthcare services and related barriers - what are the differences between ethnic and indigenous Australian children?', 7th Australian and New Zealand Health Services Research Conference, Adelaide, pp. 69 - 69, presented at 7th Australian and New Zealand Health Services Research Conference, Adelaide, 01 December 2011

Chen J; Ou L, (ed.), 2010, 'The development trajectories of health, social wellbeing and learning outcomes of Australian infants and their interrelationships', in Longitudinal and life course studies : international journal, Longview, Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 271, presented at 5th Conference of Epidemiological Longitudinal Studies in Europe (CELSE 2010), Paphos, Cyprus, 01 - 01 October 2010

Ou L; Chen J; Hillman KM, 2009, 'Linguistic difference of infants' health status and health services utilisation', 6th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 25, presented at 6th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 01 November 2009

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