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Dr Nigel Armfield

Senior Research Fellow

RECOVER Injury Research Centre
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
n.r.armfield@uq.edu.au
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Overview

Nigel is public health and health services researcher with interests and expertise in quantitative research methods, epidemiology, evidence-based health care, clinical trials, and digital health. He is a member of the Improving health outcomes after musculoskeletal injury group at the RECOVER Injury Research Centre, and is a chief investigator of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Better Outcomes for Compensable Injury. His work focusses on the epidemiology and burden of minor to moderate injuries, longitudinal data analyses of intervention trial data, population studies of health-related quality of life and chronic pain, and the potential of digital heath for assessment and intervention following injury.

Nigel has particular interests in new innovations in healthcare, and has previously worked in minimally-invasive surgical trials in gynaecology, and clinical trials assessing the feasibility, efficacy and effectiveness of clinical telemedicine in paediatric healthcare. His doctorate work (Awarded 2011, UQ School of Medicine) involved the design, development, and clinical/cost/acceptability evaluation of real-time telemedicine for acute consultation between a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and four peripheral referring hospitals in Queensland. He maintains an active research interest in telemedicine, and more broadly in digital health. Between 2004 and 2015, Nigel was involved in the telepaediatric service at the Royal Children's, and the Lady Cilento Children's hospitals in Brisbane where he also co-ordinated an Indigenous Ear Health Screening Program. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare and an academic editor for PLOS ONE.

Nigel regularly participates in national and international grant review panels, and is an active HDR and occupational-trainee supervisor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH), a member of the Australian Epidemiological Association (AEA), International Epidemiological Association (IEA), the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS), and is a qualified Justice of the Peace, JP (qual).

Qualifications

  • Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health, Royal Society for Public Health
  • Doctor of Philosophy of Medicine, The University of Queensland
  • Postgraduate Diploma, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Unravelling the tyranny of distance: public health system regionalisation and specialist neonatal care

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Quantifying the public health burden of road traffic injury.

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Improving Australian cancer survivorship care in the post treatment phase: an exploration of the role of self-management support and survivors¿ experiences and preferences

    Master Philosophy

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Nurses and telehealth: current practice and future trends

    Edirippulige, Sisira, Smith, Anthony C., Bensink, Mark, Armfield, Nigel R. and Wootton, Richard (2018). Nurses and telehealth: current practice and future trends. Health information systems: concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications. (pp. 323-338) Hershey, PA, United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-60566-988-5.ch022

  • Acute care telemedicine

    Armfield, Nigel R. and Donovan, Tim (2016). Acute care telemedicine. Telemedicine and electronic medicine. (pp. 597-618) edited by Halit Eren and John G. Webster. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b19210-32

  • Education and training for supporting general practitioners in the use of clinical telehealth: A needs analysis

    Edirippulige, Sisira, Armfield, Nigel R., Caffery, Liam and Smith, Anthony C. (2016). Education and training for supporting general practitioners in the use of clinical telehealth: A needs analysis. Telehealth and Mobile Health. (pp. 319-328) edited by Halit Eren and John G. Webster. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press.

  • Education and training for supporting practitioners in the use of clinical telehealth: a needs analysis

    Edirippulige, Sisira, Armfield, Nigel R., Caffery, Liam and Smith, Anthony C. (2016). Education and training for supporting practitioners in the use of clinical telehealth: a needs analysis. Telehealth and mobile health. (pp. 319-328) edited by Halit Eren and John G. Webster. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b19147-19

  • Nurses and Telehealth, Current Practice and Future Trends.

    Edirippulige, S, Smith, A.C., Bensink, M.E., Armfield, N.R. and Wootton R (2009). Nurses and Telehealth, Current Practice and Future Trends.. Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches. (pp. 94-109) edited by Bettina Staudinger, Victoria Hob and Herwig Osterman. USA / UK: Information Science Reference, Idea Group Inc (IGI). doi: 10.4018/978-1-60566-234-3.ch007

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Achieving healthy weight after endometrial cancer surgery-10-year follow-up of the Laparoscopic Approach to Cancer of the Endometrium (LACE) trial

    Obermair, A., Armfield, N. R., Forder, P. and Janda, M. (2018). Achieving healthy weight after endometrial cancer surgery-10-year follow-up of the Laparoscopic Approach to Cancer of the Endometrium (LACE) trial. State of the Art Conference of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology, Lyon, France, 4-6 October 2018. London, United Kingdom: BMJ Group.

  • The implementation of a standardised surgical training program for specialist gynaecologists to decrease the rate of open, abdominal hysterectomy

    Obermair, A., Graves, N., Coleman, M., Hanna, G., Armfield, N. and Janda, M. (2018). The implementation of a standardised surgical training program for specialist gynaecologists to decrease the rate of open, abdominal hysterectomy. RANZCOG 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting “Shifting Sands: Exploring the Boundaries of Specialisation”, Adelaide, South Australia, 16–19 September 2018. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia.

  • The evaluation of a telemedicine planning framework based on needs assessment

    Al Dossary, Sharifah, Martin-Khan, Melinda, Armfield, Nigel and Smith, Anthony (2017). The evaluation of a telemedicine planning framework based on needs assessment. International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT-17), Brisbane, Australia, 30-31 October 2017.

  • Assessment of the availability and expressed need for services in Dalby – Queensland

    Al Dossary, Sharifah, Martin-Khan, Melinda, Smith, Anthony and Armfield, Nigel (2016). Assessment of the availability and expressed need for services in Dalby – Queensland. Successes and Failures in Telehealth - 7th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 - 3 November, 2016.

  • Components and principles of a pediatric palliative care consultation: results of a Delphi study

    Bradford, N., Herbert, A., Mott, C., Armfield, N., Young, J. and Smith, A. (2015). Components and principles of a pediatric palliative care consultation: results of a Delphi study. RACP Congress 2015, Cairns, QLD, Australia, 24-27 May 2015. West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jpc.12913_18

  • Clinical applications of videoconferencing

    Fatehi, F., Armfield, N.R., Dimitrijevic, M. and Gray, L.C. (2014). Clinical applications of videoconferencing. International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth 2014 (SFT-14), Adelaide, Australia,, 17-18 November 2014.

  • Re-engineering health service models: the value of telemedicine for people living in Indigenous communities

    Smith, Anthony C., Armfield, Nigel R., Brown, Cecil and Perry, Christopher (2014). Re-engineering health service models: the value of telemedicine for people living in Indigenous communities. ATA 2013: American Telemedicine Association 19th Annual International Meeting and Trade Show, Baltimore, MD, USA, 18-20 May, 2014. New Rochelle, NY, United States: Mary Ann Liebert, Publishers. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2014.9986-A.abstracts

  • Retrospective review of Medicare reimbursement for telehealth in Australia

    Smith, A. C., Armfield, N. R. and Gray, L. C. (2013). Retrospective review of Medicare reimbursement for telehealth in Australia. American Telemedicine Association Meeting 2013, Austin, Texas, 5-7 May 2013. Austin, Texas: doi: 10.1089/tmj.2013.9994-A

  • Remote management of ill infants by telemedicine: improving access and outcome in a vulnerable patient group

    Donovan, T., Armfield, N., Coghill, K., Smith, A., Van der Westhuysen, J., Hurley, T. and Rogers, D. (2012). Remote management of ill infants by telemedicine: improving access and outcome in a vulnerable patient group. 17th Congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceania Perinatal Societies (FAOPS) and the 16th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18-21 March 2012. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2012.02411.x

  • A method comparison approach to determine the efficacy of telemedicine for assessment of the critically-ill child: Preliminary results

    McCall, T., Armfield, N., Coulthard, M., Slater, A. and Smith, A. (2011). A method comparison approach to determine the efficacy of telemedicine for assessment of the critically-ill child: Preliminary results. Sixth World Congress on Pediatric Critical Care One World Sharing Knowledge, Sydney, Australia, 13 - 17 March 2011. Baltimore, MD, United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182112e80

  • Accuracy of medication checks via internet video: Resources and research update

    Bradford, Natalie, Armfield, N., Young, J. and Smith, A. (2011). Accuracy of medication checks via internet video: Resources and research update. Successes and Failures in Telehealth, 2nd Annual Meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society., Royal on the Park, Brisbane, 1-2nd December 2011.

  • Clinical services and professional support: a review of mobile telepaediatric services in Queensland

    Smith, Anthony C., Armfield, Nigel R., White, Megan M., Williams, Michael L., Koh, T.H.H. Guan, Hurley, Tom, Maclean, Sue, McCrossin, Robert, Van der Westhuyzen, Jasper and Coulthard, Mark G. (2010). Clinical services and professional support: a review of mobile telepaediatric services in Queensland. Global Telehealth 2010 (GT2010), Fremantle, WA, Australia, 10-12 November 2010. The Netherlands: I O S Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-659-1-149

  • Clinicians' perceptions of telemedicine for remote neonatal consultation

    Armfield, Nigel R., Donovan, Tim and Smith, Anthony C. (2010). Clinicians' perceptions of telemedicine for remote neonatal consultation. Global Telehealth 2010 (GT2010), Fremantle, Perth, WA, 10-12 November, 2010. The Netherlands: I O S Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-659-1-1

  • Home telemedicine for paediatric palliative care

    Bradford, Natalie, Herbert, Anthony, Walker, Rick, Pedersen, Lee-Anne, Hallahan, Andrew, Irving, Helen, Bensink, Mark E., Armfield, Nigel R. and Smith, Anthony C. (2010). Home telemedicine for paediatric palliative care. Global Telehealth 2010 (GT2010): "Telehealth for every nation, community and home", Fremantle, Perth, WA, Australia, 10-12 November 2010. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/978-1-60750-659-1-10

  • Neonatal consultation at a distance

    Armfield, N. R., Bensink, M. E., Donovan, T. and Smith A. C. (2010). Neonatal consultation at a distance. 14th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 28-31 March, 2010. Oxford, NSW, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01708.x

  • Improving continuity of care for transported infants by the use of telemedicine - initial results

    Armfield, N. R., Smith, A. C., Williams, M. and Guan Koh, T. H. H. (2009). Improving continuity of care for transported infants by the use of telemedicine - initial results. 13th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 19–22 April, 2009. United Kingdom, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2009.01475.x

  • Neonatal consultation at a distance – a case series

    Armfield, N. R., Bensink, M. E., Donovan, T. and Smith, A. C. (2009). Neonatal consultation at a distance – a case series. Telemedicine and e-Health 2009, Palm Springs, California, 24–25 September 2009. New York: Mary-Ann Liebert. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2009.9946

  • NEMO: A system for neonatal teleconsultation

    Armfield N. R., Bensink, M., Donovan, T. and Wootton, R. (2008). NEMO: A system for neonatal teleconsultation. Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Congress, Gold Coast, Australia, 20–23 April 2008. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2008.01299.x

  • Preliminary evaluation of a practical program in e-health education

    Edirippulige, Sisira, Armfielf, Nigel R., Bensink, Mark E., Marasinghe, Rohana and Wootton, Richard (2008). Preliminary evaluation of a practical program in e-health education. American Telemedicine Association Meeting 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA, 6-8 April 2008. New Rochelle, NY, USA: Mary Ann Liebert. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2008.9983.supp

  • Geriatric ward rounds conducted by videoconference

    Gray, Len, Wright, Olivia, Armfield, Nigel R. and Wootton, Richard (2007). Geriatric ward rounds conducted by videoconference. Successes and Failures in Telehealth, Brisbane, Queensland, 27-28 August, 2007. U.K.: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd..

  • Mobile telemedicine: robots,fish and other stories

    Armfield, N. R., Bensink, M., Smith, A. C., Donovan, T. J. and Wootton, R. (2007). Mobile telemedicine: robots,fish and other stories. European Conference on eHealth 2007, Germany, 11-12 October, 2007. Bonn, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik.

  • Telemedicine and rural health care applications

    Smith, A. C., Bensink, M., Armfield, N., Stillman, J. and Caffery, L. (2005). Telemedicine and rural health care applications. Mumbai, India: Medknow Publications.

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ORCID: 0000-0003-4218-0030

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