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Ms Lixin Ou
School / Unit
The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research
Research Interests
Lixin Ou worked as a research associate at the Simpson Centre for Health Services Research during 2004 and 2007, and is a PhD candidate since 2008. Lixin’s research interests include patient safety, quality of health care, health services research, and public health. Her previous work focused on effective discharge planning, patient safety literature review, palliative care research and quality of health care. Her PhD thesis focuses on the inequality and inequity of health status and health services utilisation among Australian children using a national representative cohort study.
Broad Research Areas
- Inequality and inequity in health care
- Health services research
- Patient safety.
- Public health
Publications
Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, Ken Hillman. Health services utilisation: a comparison between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants. BMC Public Health, 2009. (Under review)
Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, Ken Hillman, John Eastwood. The comparison of health status and health services utilisations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous infants in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2009. In Press.
Lixin Ou, Lis Young, Jack Chen, Nancy Santiano, La-Stacey Baramy and Ken Hillman. Discharge delay in acute care: reasons and determinants of delay in general ward patients. Australian Health Review 2009; 33 (3): 513-521
Conference Presentations
Lixin Ou. All dressed-up but nowhere to go”-the reasons of delayed discharge in a case study. Workshop for Early Health Services Researchers, Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, November 2006,
Jack Chen and Lixin Ou. Clusters of injuries and chronic health conditions and their changes between baseline and follow-up for the kindergarten cohort” at Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Research Conference. Melbourne, Australia. 2007.
Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, and Ken Hillman. The comparison of heath service utilizations between indigenous and non-indigenous infants in a large Australian representative cohort. The 2nd Aboriginal Health Research Conference - An initiative of the Coalition for Research to Improve Aboriginal Health, Sydney, Australia, April 2008.
Jack Chen, Lixin Ou, Ken Hillman. Disentangling the complex causal pathways of heath service utilization between Indigenous and non-Indigenous infants in a large Australian representative cohort – from the 1M model to the 5M model. The 2nd Aboriginal Health Research Conference - An initiative of the Coalition for Research to Improve Aboriginal Health, Sydney, Australia, April 2008.
Lixin Ou, Jack Chen, and Ken Hillman. Linguistic difference of infants’ health status and health services utilisation. 6th Health Services & Policy Research Conference. Brisbane, Australia, November 2009.
Lixin Ou, Jack Chen. The gaps in health outcome and health services utiization between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian infants and its attributable causal effects: - where to intervene and how big impact are they? The 2nd LSAC Research Conference. Melbourne, Australia. December 2009.
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Ms Lixin Ou
PhD Candidate
The Simpson Centre for Health Services Research
Level 1 AGSM
University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052
T +61(2) 9612 0634
F +61(2) 9385 8692
E Lixin.Ou@swsahs.nsw.gov.au or z3135204@student.unsw.edu.au
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