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Biography
Dr Paul Buntine is the Director of Emergency Medicine research for Eastern Health in Melbourne, and an Emergency Physician at Box Hill hospital. He has an adjunct position as senior lecturer at Monash university. He has extensive experience in driving local quality improvement projects and is clinical lead of the highly successful No Unnecessary Tests (NUTs) project at Eastern Health. he has been invited to speak at a number of national forums on topics related to improving diagnostic decision making and won the 2016 Victorian Public Healthcare Award for Excellence in Quality and Safety for his work on safely reducing medical testing. Paul has considerable local and multi site research experience and has been involved in a number of successful research and quality improvement grants.
In addition to his recent role as an advisory board member for the Safer Care Victoria Choosing Wisely collaboration, Dr Buntine has spoken at a number of Bi-national Emergency Medicine forums and national Choosing Wisely webinars and is a committee member of the Monash Partners Emergency Medicine theme. He has led the Eastern Health “No Unnecessary Tests” project for the past 5 years and is actively involved with Choosing wisely Australia and the Monash University undergraduate medical program, providing regular educational lectures and talks on this topic at a local, state and national level. Through his role as Director of Emergency Medicine Research at Eastern Health he leads a large number of active translational research projects across three large metropolitan Emergency Departments. He has been site leader in a number of recent influential research projects including a study of conservative versus interventional treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax (Brown et al) and the ARISE Fluids project that explored the management of early sepsis across Australian Emergency Departments (Keijzers et al). The Eastern Health NUTs project led by Dr Buntine has resulted in an ongoing sustained reduction in low value medical testing across the organization. Widespread sharing of these outcomes with other health services across Australia has resulted in significant brand recognition of this project and formal integration via a number of Safer Care Victoria test reduction projects in EDs across Victoria in 2019-2020.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Emergency Medicine
- Decision Support
- Back pain
- Cardiology
- Behaviour Change
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 3 Active
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A digital health intervention to provide individualised feedback on pathology requesting practices of Emergency Department clinicians
Craig, S., Taniar, D., Haryanto, A., O'Reilly, G., Callander, E., Buntine, P., Egerton-Warburton, D., Babl, F. E. & Blecher, G.
Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
28/04/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Just Say No to the Just in Case Cannula: An Implementation Science Trial with Roadmap for National Roll Out
Egerton-Warburton, D., Cameron, P., Cullen, L. A., Teede, H., Rickard, C. M., Morphet, J., Fatovich, D. M., O'Reilly, G., Callander, E., Keijzers, G., Kuhn, L., Enticott, J., Buntine, P., Tran, V., Heiss, L., Hullick, C., Blecher, G., Gourley, S., Lee, R., Lindner, R., Chan, T., Melder, A. & Saddington, E.
1/02/23 → 31/01/28
Project: Research
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Nudge CDSS: Nudging clinicians to reduce unnecessary medical test ordering
Gao, C., Burstein, F. & Buntine, P.
1/12/22 → 29/12/23
Project: Research
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Diabetes mellitus is an independent predictor of obstructive coronary artery disease in patients presenting with atrial fibrillation and elevated troponin
Fahey, J. K., Prosser, H., Lescai, P., Sajeev, J. K., Yao, H., Roberts, L., Buntine, P. & Teh, A. W., Mar 2023, In: Internal Medicine Journal. 53, 3, p. 436-438 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Effects of pharmacotherapy on sleep-related outcomes in adults with chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Craige, E. A., Tagliaferri, S. D., Ferguson, S. A., Scott, H., Belavy, D. L., Easton, D. F., Buntine, P., Memon, A. R., Owen, P. J. & Vincent, G. E., Jan 2023, In: eClinicalMedicine. 55, 13 p., 101749.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Efficacy of intravenous magnesium for the management of non-post operative atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Enayati, A., Gin, J. H., Sajeev, J. K., Cooke, J. C., Carey, P., MacPherson, M., Roberts, L., Buntine, P., Teh, A. W. & Nogic, J., May 2023, In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 34, 5, p. 1286-1295 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Feasibility of a rapid diagnosis discussion tool for reducing misdiagnosis of patients presenting to emergency departments with abdominal pain
Faulkner, N., Buntine, P., Wright, B., Leach, D. & Bragge, P., Aug 2023, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 35, 4, p. 664-671 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-positive children in Australian hospitals: a PREDICT network study
Ibrahim, L., Wilson, C., Tham, D., Corden, M., Jani, S., Zhang, M., Kochar, A., Tan, K., George, S., Phillips, N. T., Buntine, P., Robins-Browne, K., Chong, V., Georgeson, T., Lithgow, A., Davidson, S., O'Brien, S., Tran, V. & Babl, F. E., Jun 2023, In: The Medical Journal of Australia. 218, 10, p. 460-466 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access