The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Benjamin Ewald
School: School of Medicine and Public Health
Commenced with Institution: 07-FEB-1996
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Benjamin Ewald 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant Pilot project to test recruitment and intervention for physical activitiy promotion RCT in general practice   10097  
Dr Biljana Bonevski;Conjoint Pr Afaf Girgis;Dr Benjamin Ewald;Conjoint Pr Bruce Armstrong 2008 1 Cancer Council NSW Project - Research Grant GPs and Vitamin D deficiency: A survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices   24615  
Dr Benjamin Ewald 2004 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Scholarship - Public Health Postgraduate Scholarship Accuracy of a new blood test for B Naturietic Peptide in the diagnosis of congestive heart failure in general practice   73722  
Dr Benjamin Ewald;Conjoint A/Prof Julia Lowe 2002 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project - Research Grant Accuracy of a new blood test for B Natriuretic Peptide in the diagnosis of congestive heart failure in General practice patients.   20000  

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (CommunityMed & ClinEpid) 2005 Prospective Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections at a Tertiary Hospital in Viet Nam and the Impact of a Bedside Hand Sanitizer Program

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Ewald Benjamin David, Ewald D, Thakkinstian Ammarin, Attia John Richard, ’Meta-analysis of B type natriuretic peptide and N-terminal pro B natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of clinical heart failure and population screening for left ventricular systolic dysfunction’, Internal Medicine Journal, 38 101-113 (2008) [C1]

Ewald Benjamin David, ’Erratum for 'Post hoc choice of cut points introduced bias to diagnostic research'’, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 60 756 (2007) [C3]

Le T A, Sohn A H, Nguyen P T, Vo T C, Tran Nguyen T H, Ewald Benjamin David, Dibley Michael John, ’Microbiology of surgical site infections and associated antimicrobial use among Vietnamese orthopedic and neurosurgical patients’, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 27 855-862 (2006) [C1]

Ewald Benjamin David, ’Post hoc choice of cut points introduced bias to diagnostic research’, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 59 798-801 (2006) [C1]

Thu L T A, Dibley Michael John, Ewald Benjamin David, Tien N P, Lam L D, ’Incidence of surgical site infections and accompanying risk factors in Vietnamese orthopaedic patients’, Journal of Hospital Infection, 60 360-367 (2005) [C1]

Attia John Richard, Nair Balakrishnan R, Sibbritt David William, Ewald Benjamin David, Paget Neil S, Wellard Rod F, Patterson Lesley, Heller Richard Frederick, ’Generating pre-test probabilities: a neglected area in clinical decision making’, Medical Journal of Australia, 180 449-454 (2004) [C1]

Ewald Benjamin David, Attia John Richard, ’Which test to detect microalbuminuria in diabetic patients?’, Australian Family Physician, 33 565-568 (2004) [C1]

Ewald Benjamin David, ’B-type natriuretic peptide: a new diagnostic tool for congestive heart failure’, Australian Prescriber, 26 64-65 (2003) [C2]

Ewald Benjamin David, Pekarsky Brita, ’Cost analysis of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in initiating antihypertensive drug treatment in Australian general practice’, Medical Journal of Australia, 176 580-583 (2002) [C1]

McElduff Patrick, Attia John Richard, Ewald Benjamin David, Cockburn Jill Deidre, Heller R, ’Estimating the contribution of individual risk factors to disease in a person with more than one risk factor’, The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 55 588-592 (2002) [C1]

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