Research Outputs & Contributions

Pagano, L. Hirschhorn, A. Arnolda, G. Long, J. C. Francis-Auton, E. Braithwaite, J. Churruca, K. Ellis, L. A. Hibbert, P. D. Partington, A. Stoodley, M. Sarkies, M. N. (2025) Conducting rigorous implementation evaluations in real word settings: lessons from a consensus approach to perioperative pathway implementation for elective surgery, [submitted]

Schutz, T. J. Tait, P. Major, B. Partington, A. Daff, D. Everingham, P. Perry, R. Davidson, J. Karnon, J. (2025) Working environment in a virtual emergency department: cross sectional study, [submitted]

Schultz, T. J. Partington, A. Everingham, P. Morphett, M. Davidson, J. Miller, S. M. Hansen, K. Mitchell, N. Dey, I. Karnon, J. (2025) Developing benchmarking indicators for Australian virtual emergency departments: a Delphi study, Emergency Medicine Journal [online]

Grutters, J. P. C. Bouttell, J. Abrishami, P. Ahmed, S. Y. M. Cole, A. Dawoud, D. Fernández-Barceló, C. Frederix G. W. J. Hawkins, N. Karnon, J. Leadbitter, S. McCabe, C. Mueller, J. Owusu Achiaw, S. Partington, A. Sampietro-Colom, L. Seyahian, A. Sucu, R. Tew, M. van Katwyk, S. Verboven, Y. Wang, Y. (2025) Defining early Health Technology Assessment: Building consensus using Delphi technique, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care [online]

Smith, K. Rojas, C. Zurynski, Y. Partington, A. Braithwaite, J. (2025) From Policy to Practice: Building a Resilient, Climate Aware Health System from the Ground Up, Climatic Change, 178(4), 69

Braithwaite, J. Smith, C. L. Leask, E. Wijekulasuriya, S. Brooke-Cowden, K. Fisher, G. Patel, R. Pagano, L. Rahimi-Ardabili, H. Spanos, S. Rojas, C. Partington, A. McQuillan, E. Dammery, G. Carrigan, A. Ehrenfeld, L. Coiera, E. Westbrook, J. Zurynski, Y. (2024) Strategies and tactics to reduce the impact of healthcare on climate change: systematic review, The BMJ, 387:e081284 

Smith, K. Rojas, C. Zurynski, Y. Partington, A. Braithwaite, J. (2024) What Australia must do to create a climate-responsive health system, Internal Medicine Journal; 54(11), 1769-1924

Partington, A. Crotty, M. Laver, K. Greene, L. Afzali, H. Karnon, J. (2024) Preparing early economic evaluations for the development and management of health service interventions. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 40(1):e47

Schultz, T. Oster, C. Pincombe, A. Partington, A. Taylor, A. Bedford, V. Gray, J. Murray, A. McInnes, J. Ryan, C. Karnon, J. (2024) Patient experiences and outcomes in a South Australian stand-alone hospital-in-the-home (HITH) program, Australian Health Review, 49(1), 1-13

Birkenhead, K. Trumble, C. Sullivan, D. Spinks, C. Srinivasan, S. Partington, A. Elias, L. Hespe, C. Fleming, G. Li, S. Robertson, E. Trent, R. Sarkies, M. (2024) Implementation of a primary-tertiary shared care model to improve the detection of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH): A mixed methods pre-post implementation study protocol. BMJ Open;14:e082699 (Online)

Greene, L. Crotty, M. Whitehead, C. Rahja, M. Murad, J. Kwok, D. Partington, A. Laver, K. (2023) Assessing the reach and safety of an innovative urgent care service tailored to older adults. Australasian Journal of Ageing (Online)

Karnon, J. Partington, A. Gray, J. Pincomb, A. Schultz, T. (2023) Local Level Economic Evaluation: What is it? What is its value? Is it Sustainable? Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (available online) 

Pagano, L. Hemmert, C. Hirschhorn, A. Francis-Auton, E. Arnolda, G. Long, J. C. Braithwaite, J. Gumley, G. Hibbert, P. D. Churruca, K. Hutchinson, K. Partington, A. Hughes, C. Gillatt, D. Ellis, L. A. Testa, L. Patel, R. Sarkies, M. N. (2023) Implementation of consensus-based perioperative care pathways to reduce clinical variation for elective surgery in an Australian private hospital: a mixed-methods pre–post study protocol. BMJ Open;13(7):e075008.

Leemans, S. Partington, A. Karnon, J. Wynn, M. T. (2023) Process Mining for Healthcare Decision Analytics with Micro-Costing Estimations. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (accepted)

Cutler, H., Gu, Y. Bilgrami, A. & Partington, A. (2023). The 2021 proposal to increase market forces in the Australian residential aged-care sector. Health Policy 127, p. 60-65

Chen, J., Wuthrich, V. M., Rapee, R., Draper, B., Brodaty, H., Cutler, H., Lowe, L-F., Georgiou, A., Johnco, C., Jones, M., Meuldijk, D., & Partington, A. (2022). Improving mental health and social participation outcomes in older adults with depression and anxiety: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 17(6), 1-15.

Partington, A. and J. Karnon (2021). It’s Not the Model, It’s the Way You Use It: Exploratory Early Health Economics Amid Complexity; Comment on “Problems and Promises of Health Technologies: The Role of Early Health Economic Modelling". International Journal of Health Policy and Management 10(1): 36-38.

Karnon, J. Partington, A. and Haji Ali Afzali, H. (2021). Strategies for Avoiding Neglect of Opportunity Costs by Decision-Makers. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.

Gray, J. Partington, A. and Karnon, J. (2021). Access, Use, and Patient-Reported Experiences of Emergency Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Population-Based Survey. JMIR Hum Factors 8(3): e30878.

Meuldijk, D. Wuthrich, V.M. Rapee, R.M. Draper, B. Brodaty, H. Cuijpers, P. Cutler, H. Hobbs, M. Johnco, C. Jones, M. Chen, J. Partington, A. Wijeratne, C. (2021). Translating Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions for Older Adults with Depression and Anxiety into Public and Private Mental Health Settings using a Stepped Care Framework: Study Protocol, Contemporary Clinical Trials, 104(9)

Roseleur, J. Partington, A. & Karnon, J. (2020). Scoping review of Australian evaluations of healthcare delivery models: are we making the most of the evidence? Australian Health Review 44(4): 557-562.

Sarkies, M. Francis-Auton, E. Long, J.C. Partington, A. Pomare, C. Nguyen, H.M. Wu, W. Westbrook, J. Day, R. Levesque, J-F. Mitchell, R. Rapport, F. Cutler, H. Tran, Y. Clay-Williams, R. Watson, D.E. Arnolda, G. Hibbert, P. Lystad, R. Mumford, V. Braithwaite, J. (2020). Implementing large-scale value-based healthcare initiatives: A realist evaluation protocol for seven natural experiments, BMJ Open

Roseleur, J. Partington, A. Karnon, J. 2020. Evaluations of health care delivery models in Australia: a scoping review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports. 18(1): 128-134

Partington, A. Chew, D. P.  Ben-Tovim, D. Horsfall, M. Hakendorf, P. & Karnon, J. (2017). Screening for important unwarranted variation in clinical practice: a triple-test of processes of care, costs and patient outcomes. Aust Health Rev 41(1): 104-110.
** Awarded best paper, Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) **

Karnon, J. Partington, A. Horsfall, M. & Chew, D. (2016). Variation in Clinical Practice: A Priority Setting Approach to the Staged Funding of Quality Improvement. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 14(1): 21-27.

Partington, A. Wynn, M. T. Suriadi, S. Ouyang, C. & Karnon, J. (2015). Process Mining for Clinical Processes: A Comparative Analysis of Four Australian Hospitals. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 5(4): 1-18.

Karnon, J. and Partington, A. (2015). Cost-Value Analysis and the SAVE: A Work in Progress, But an Option for Localised Decision Making? Pharmacoeconomics 33(12): 1281-1288.

Suriadi, S. Mans, R. Wynn, M. Partington, A. & Karnon, J. (2014). Measuring Patient Flow Variations: A Cross-organisational Process Mining Approach. In Ouyang, C. Jung, J-Y. (Eds.): The Proceedings of the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 181(1): 43-58

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2025). Revealing the value of a bed day: a supply-side observational analysis using Australian activity-based funding and costing data. The Health Economists’ Study Group Summer Meeting, Brighton, UK, 30 June - 2 July

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2025). Early economic evaluation to develop and manage health services: experience of an Action Learning Set within an Australian Local Hospital Network. European Health Management Association Conference, Rennes, France, 4 - 6 June 

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2024). Early economic evaluation for the development and management of an intermediate Complex And RestorativE (CARE) service for older adults in South Australia. HSRAANZ Health Services Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 4 - 6 December

Karnon, J. Pincombe, A. Partington, A. Schultz, T. (2024) Evaluating health service interventions to improve access and flow: the search for meaning and consistency, HSRAANZ 13th Health Services Research Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 4 - 6 December

Braithwaite, J. Smith, C.L. Leask, E. Wijekulasuriya, S. Brooke-Cowden, K. Fisher, G. Patel, R. Pagano, L. Rahimi-Ardabili, H. Spanos, S. Rojas, C. Partington, A. McQuillan, E. Dammery,  G. Carrigan, A. Ehrenfeld, L. Coiera, E. Westbrook, J. Zurynski, Y. (2024) Strategies and tactics by which to reduce healthcare’s impact on climate change: A systematic review. ISQua's 40th International Conference, Istanbul, Türkiye, 24 - 27 September

Birkenhead, K. Sullivan, D. Trumble, C. Spinks, C. Srinivasan, S. Partington, A. Elias, L. Hespe, C. Fleming, G. Li, S. Calder, M. Robertson, E. Trent, R. Sarkies, M. (2024) Preliminary Results From the Implementation of a Primary-Tertiary Shared Care Model to Improve the Detection of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH): A Mixed Methods Pre-Post Implementation Study, 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Perth, Western Australia, 1 - 4 August.

Smith, C. L., Rojas, C., Zurynski, Y., Partington, A., Ellis, L.A., Dammery, G., Fisher, G., Spanos, S., Long, J.C., Churruca, K. & Braithwaite, J. (2024) Creating low-carbon, climate-resilient health systems: what frameworks, policies, and standards should we apply? AcademyHealth’s 2024 Annual Research Meeting , Baltimore, United States of America, 29 June - 2 July.  

Bouttell, J. Partington, A. Fernandez, C. Norman, A. Abrishami, P. Karnon, J. (2023). What Is Early HTA and How Can It Facilitate Timely Patient Access To Valuable Innovation? Panel presentation at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 24 - 28 June.

Karnon, J. Le Fevre, J. Reeves, P. Keng Ho, P. Partington, A. (2023). Hospital-Based HTA For Health Service Delivery Models: Comparing, Contrasting And Learning From Experience, Panel presentation at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 24 - 28 June.

Bouttell, J. Partington, A. (2023). An Introduction To Early Health Technology Assessment. Workshop facilitated at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Annual Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 24 - 28 June

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2023). The expected value of implementation: The use of iterative expert elicitation and scenario analyses within decision-analytic models of health services, Oral presentation at the Implementation Science in Health Care Australia (ISHCA23), Sydney, Australia, 23 - 24 March

Sarkies M, Francis-Auton E, Long E, Roberts N, Westbrook J, Levesque J-F, Watson D, Pomare C, Partington A, Braithwaite J. (2022) Implementing large-system value-based healthcare programs: a realist study for seven natural experiments. HSRAANZ 11th Health Services Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 30 November - 2 December.

Partington, A. & Karnon, J. (2022) Health technology management: Using routinely collected activity data and structured elicitation to iteratively plan, model and implement services. Oral presentation at the 2022 Independent Hospitals and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) Activity Based Funding Conference, Virtual, Australia 5 May - 6 May

Francis-Auton, E., Sarkies, M. N., Long, J. C., Partington, A., Pomare, C., Rapport, F., & Braithwaite, J. (2021). Implementing large-system value-based healthcare initiatives: a realist study protocol for seven natural experiments. Evidence and Implementation Summit, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Partington, A. Horsfall, M. Chew, D. Ben-Tovim, D. Hakendorf, P. & Karnon, J. (2014). Comparative Effectiveness Research to Inform Quality Improvement using Linked Costs, Outcomes, & Process Data. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making, Florida, 18 - 22 October.

Karnon, J. Crane, G. Partington, A. & Pham, C. (2014). Service Evaluation & Optimisation: worthwhile endeavour or zombie-like? Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) Meeting Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, 23 - 25 June.

Karnon, J. Pham, C. Partington, A. Ben-Tovim, D. & Hakendorf, P. (2013). Valuing Variation: a framework for improving the use of existing technologies. iHEA 9th World Congress on Health Economics, Sydney, July 7 - 10

Karnon, J. Partington, A. Pham, C. Ben-Tovim, D. Chew, D. Hakendorf, P. & Horsfall, M. (2012). An Applied Framework for Continuous Improvement in Clinical Practice: using cost, patient outcome & process data to improve health care services. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society of Medical Decision Making, Phoenix, October 17 - 20.

Partington, A. Karnon, J. Chew, D. Ben-Tovim, D. Wynn, M. Horsfall, M. & Hakendoft, P. (2012). Describing Variations in Clinical Practice: an application of process mining for the purposes of comparative analysis. Australasian College of Health Service Management International Congress, Gold Coast, August 15 – 17.

Partington, A. & Karnon, J. (2010). A New Approach to Valuing Outcomes for Economic Evaluation: preferences for outcome prevention (POPs). 32nd Australian Conference for Health Economists, Sydney, September 30 - October 1

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2023) Observational analyses of the Complex And RestorativE (CARE) initiative in Southern Adelaide. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Schultz, T. Gray, J. Partington, A. Oster, C. Pincombe, A. Harvey, G. Bracci, E. Taylor, A. Reed, R. Bedford, V. Snoswell, C. Shulver, W. Bidargaddi, N. Bastiampillai, T. and Karnon, J. (2023). My Home Hospital External Review: Consolidated Report of Integrated Findings. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Pincombe, A. Schultz, T. Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2023). My Home Hospital External Review: Part B – Clinical Outcomes. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Karnon, J. Partington, A. Schultz, T. (2023). SA Virtual Care Services (SAVCS) Economic Evaluation Plan: A report on where we're at, where we want to go next, and where we'll then find ourselves. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia 

Partington, A. Schultz, T. Gray, J. Snoswell, C. Karnon, J. (2023). Home hospitalisation population and delivery models: A scoping review of the literature to support the evaluation of the South Australian My Home Hospital Service. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia.

Partington, A. Karnon, J. (2021)  State-wide Demand Management Initiatives: CEIH Economic Evaluation Guidance Document. Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Karnon, J. Partington, A. Horwood, C. Hakendorf, P. (2021). Should SALHN investigate the potential to reduce the number of inpatient admissions from the ED for patients presenting with a lower-severity fracture? Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Yeend, T. Cutler, H. Partington, A. Braithwaite, J. & Zurynski, Y. (2021). The Macquarie Indexes of Healthcare Productivity: a set of nationally consistent and disaggregated indexes of hospital service delivery for states and territories in Australia. Macquarie University.

Cutler, H., & Partington, A. (2020). Power to the people: Improving residential aged care quality through better consumer choice. Macquarie University, Centre for the Health Economy

Cutler, H. Partington, A. (2020). Improving Aged Care Quality through Competition Policy & Quality Data. Submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

Cutler, H. Partington, A. Aghdaee, M. Parkinson, B. (2020). The MUCHE Health Report 2020 – Analysis of the 2020-21 Federal Budget, Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

Partington, A. & Cutler, H. (2019) Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Public Hospital Services 2020-21, Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

Cutler, H. Epp, J. Aghdaee, M. Partington, A. (2019). The MUCHE Health Report 2019 – Analysis of the 2019-20 Federal Budget, Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University

SA Health, Adelaide PHN, Country SA PHN, the SA Health Performance Council and the Grattan Institute. (2019). Lessons of Location: Hotspots of Persistent, Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations across South Australia. Report for the South Australian Department of Health & Wellbeing.

Department of Health & Wellbeing, 2019. South Australian Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019 – 2024, Government of South Australia

South Australian Department of Health & Wellbeing. (2018). An Evaluation of the Population Health Needs, Demand & Supply in South Australia 2018. Report to the Project Board of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2019-2024.

SA Health. (2018). Our Strengths, Opportunities & View Forward: What You Have Said. Clinical Service Planning Engagement Feedback.

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service. (2016). Budget Impact Modelling and Options Appraisal for County-wide Implementation of Speech-to-text Technologies. A report to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors (unpublished).

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service. (2015). Delivering the Strategy: A Snapshot of Unscheduled Care Referral Patterns and Workforce Structures between Blackpool, Lancaster, Burnley, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley and Ormskirk. A report for NHS East Lancashire CCG and Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. 

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, & Healthcare at Home Ltd. (2015). Service Delivery Models for Community Delivered Intravenous Antibiotics. A commissioning report for NHS Greater Preston CCG and Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust. 

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service. (2015). A multi-criteria options appraisal for the prioritisation of offender health services improvements in the north of England. Report for the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors. (unpublished)

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service. (2014). A Review of Bed Management Practices and Patient Flow through Secure Mental Health Facilities across Lancashire. Report for the Director of Governance and Patient Safety, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Lancashire Transformation Advisory Service. (2014). Market Analysis: Contraception and Sexual Health (CaSH) Services in North West England. Report for the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors.

Partington, A. Gray, J. Horsfall M. Chew, D. Suriadi, S. Ouyang, O. Wynn, M. T. Ben-Tovim, D. Hakendorf, P. Karnon, J. (2014). Improving Health Care Performance by Reducing Variation in Clinical Practice. Report for the HCF Health & Medical Research Foundation.

Pham, C. Caffrey, O. Karnon, J. Ben-Tovim, D. Hakendoft, P. Crotty, M. Gordon, J. & Partington, A. (2011). Assessing Equitable & Efficient Solutions to Hospital Demand. Report to the Strategic Health Research Program [SHRP 08-09 Round], South Australian Department of Health.