Publications

Stirling, R. G., Melder, A., Eyles, E., Reich, M., Dawkins, P. An Exploration of the Utility and Impacts of Implementation Science Strategies by Cancer Registries for Healthcare Improvement: A Systematic Review. IJHPM. 2024. Retrieved from https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4655.html

Tissera S, Billah B, Brand M, Karim MN, Antippa P, Blum R, Caldecott M, Conron M, Faisal W, Harden S, Olesen I, Parente P, Richardson G, Samuel E, See K, Underhill C, Wright G, Zalcberg J, Stirling RG. Stage-Specific Guideline Concordant Treatment Impacts on Survival in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Novel Quality Indicator. Clin Lung Cancer. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cllc.2024.08.012

Jensen-Marini E, Ayton D, Zalcberg J, Stirling, RG. Exploring patient reported quality of life in lung cancer patients: A qualitative study of patient-reported outcome measures. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajco.14056

Smith S, Sapkaroski D, Brand M, Tran A, Zalcberg J, Stirling RG. Mapping the clinical care pathways for advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer patients in Victoria: A retrospective cohort study of supportive and palliative care. Nursing and Health Sciences. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.13044

Tesema G, Tessema Z, Heritier S, Stirling RG, Earnest A. A systematic review of joint spatial and spatiotemporal models in health research. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075295

Earnest A, Tesema GA, Stirling RG. Machine learning techniques to predict timeliness of care among lung cancer patients. Healthcare. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11202756

Huang J, Faisal W, Brand M, Smith S, Alexander M, Briggs L, Conron M, Duffy M, John T, Langton D, Lesage J, MacManus M, Mitchell P, Olesen I, Parente P, Philip J, Samuel E, Torres J, Underhill CR, Zalcberg JR, Harden S, Stirling R. Patterns of care for people with small cell lung cancer in Victoria, 2011-19: a retrospective, population-based registry data study. Med J Aust. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52017

Woodford K, Koo K, Reynolds J, Stirling RG, Harden SV, Brand M, Senthi S. Persisting gaps in optimal care of stage III non-small cell lung cancer: An Australian patterns of care analysis. Oncologist. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oncolo/oyac246

Harden, S. Innovative Value-based Victorian Lung Cancer Registry pilot study shows preference-based health related quality of life is significantly associated with receipt of guideline concordant care. 2023. ACTA Australian Clinical Registries ASM (Melbourne)

Stirling R, Evolution of the Victorian Lung Cancer Registry (VLCR): Results of longitudinal change in outcomes measures. 2023. Australian Lung Cancer Conference (Gold Coast)

Samuel E, Discordance between clinical and pathological staging of patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer: A retrospective observational cohort study. 2023. Australian Lung Cancer Conference (Gold Coast)

Harden S, Samankula D, John T, Muruganandan S, Zalcberg J, Stirling R. Victorian Mesothelioma Outcomes Registry: Establishing key clinical quality indicators that reflect optimal evidence-based care for people diagnosed with mesothelioma. 2023. The Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA) Annual Scientific Meeting (Melbourne)

J Xue, S Smith, M Brand, D Samankula, R Stirling, J Zalcberg, S Harden. 2023. A retrospective analysis of patterns of care and clinical outcomes for people diagnosed with mesothelioma in Victoria. Australian Lung Cancer Conference (Gold Coast) [Poster Presentation]

Tissera S, Billah B, Karim MD, Zalcberg J, Brand M, Stirling R. Non-small cell lung cancer in Victoria: Associate between stage-specific receipt of guideline-concordant treatment and survival. 2023. Australian Lung Cancer Conference (Gold Coast) [Poster Presentation]

Tissera S, Billah B, Karim MD, Zalcberg J, Brand M, Stirling R. Small cell lung cancer in Victoria: The association between stage-specific guideline concordant treatment and survival. 2023. Australian Lung Cancer Conference (Gold Coast) [Poster Presentation]

Harden, S. Real World Data and Value Driven Outcomes: opportunities and limitations. 2023. World Lung Cancer Conference (Singapore) [Invited speaker]

Harden S, Defining Quality Indicators for Lung Radiotherapy: Chocolate Box or Rocky Road. 2023. BTOG ASM (Belfast) [Invited speaker]

Tissera S, Billah B, Karim MD, Zalcberg J, Brand M, Stirling R. Impact of stage-specific guideline concordant treatment in small cell lung cancer in Victoria, Australia. 2023. World Lung Conference (Singapore) [Poster Presentation]

Marvelde LT, Brand M, Himalsha U, Smith S, Evans SM, Zalcberg JR, Stirling RG. COVID-19 impacts on lung cancer diagnosis, management and timeliness in Victoria, Australia: A population based observational study. 2023. Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2023 (Melbourne) [Poster Presentation]

Smith S, Brand M, Harden S, Briggs L, Leigh L, Brims F, Brooke M, Brunelli VN, Chia C, Dawkins P, Lawrenson R, Duffy M, Evans S, Leong T, Marshall H, Patel D, Pavlakis N, Philip J, Rankin N, Singhal N, Stone E, Tay R, Vinod S, Windsor M, Wright GM, Leong D, Zalcberg J, Stirling RG . Development of an Australia and New Zealand Lung Cancer Clinical Quality Registry: A protocol paper. BMJ Open. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060907

Tissera S, Billah B, Karim MD, Brand M, Smith S, Zalcberg J, Stirling R. OA01.03 Lung cancer in Victoria: Association between stage-specific receipt of guideline-concordant treatment and survival. World Lung Conference (Vienna)

Woodford KL, Koo K, Reynolds J, Stirling RG, Harden SV, Brand M, Senthi S. OA01.04 Persisting gaps in optimal care of stage III non-small Cell lung cancer: An Australian patterns of care analysis. Wold Lung Conference (Vienna)

Lin T, Pham J, Paul E, Conron M, Wright G, Ball D, Mitchell P, Atkin N, Brand M, Zalcberg J, Stirling RG. Impacts of lung cancer multidisciplinary meeting presentation: Drivers and outcomes from a population registry retrospective cohort study. Lung Cancer. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2021.12.006

Stenger M, Jakobsen E, Wright G, Zalcberg J, Stirling RG. A comparison of outcomes and survival between Victoria and Denmark in lung cancer surgery: Opportunities for international benchmarking. ANZ J Surg. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ans.17302

Stirling RG, Chau C, Shareh A, Zalcberg J, Fischer BM. Effect of follow-up surveillance after curative-intent treatment of NSCLC on detection of new and recurrent disease, retreatment, and survival: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J. Thorac Oncol. 2010. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.1622

Soh SE, Morello R, Ayton D, Ahern S, Scarborough R, Zammit C, et al. Measurement properties of the 12-item short form health survey version 2 in Australians with lung cancer: a Rasch analysis. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01794-w

Sridharan K, Paul E, Stirling RG, Li C. Impacts of multidisciplinary meeting case discussion on palliative care referral and end-of-life care in lung cancer: A retrospective observational study. Intern Med J. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.15215

Wah W, Stirling RG, Ahern S, Earnest A. Forecasting of lung cancer incident cases at the small-area level in Victoria, Australia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fijerph18105069

Stirling RG. Posttreatment surveillance challenges in the era of precision medicine. J Thorac Oncol. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2021.07.023

Pham J, Conron M, Wright G, Mitchell P, Ball D, Philip J, et al. Excess mortality and undertreatment in elderly lung cancer patients: treatment nihilism in the modern era? ERJ Open Res. 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00393-2020

Largey G, Briggs P, Davies H, Underhill C, R. C, Harvey K, et al. The Victorian lung cancer service redesign project: Impacts of a quality improvement collaborative on timeliness and management in lung cancer. Intern Med J. 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.15043

Stirling R, Stenger M, Zalcberg J. Comment on: ‘Hospital lung surgery volume and patient outcomes’. Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2020;142:138-9.

Wah W, Stirling RG, Ahern S, Earnest A. Association between receipt of guideline-concordant lung cancer treatment and individual- and area-level factors: A spatio-temporal analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0709

Wah W, Stirling RG, Ahern S, Earnest A. Influence of timeliness and receipt of first treatment on geographic variation in non-small cell lung cancer mortality. International J Cancer. 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33343

Stirling R, Zalcberg J. Peeling the onion of health care disparity in lung cancer. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. 2019;14(8):e167-e8.

Stirling RG, Zalcberg J. FDG-PET follow up of non-small cell lung cancer: Not dead yet. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.05.042

Stirling RG, Rischin A, Earnest A, Brand M, Gooi J, Ruben J, Moore M, Ellis S, Cherk M, Li C, Mansfield L, Mott H, McLean C, Evans S and Zalcberg J. Impact of lung cancer multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) on presentation of quality of life and survival: An Australian retrospective cohort study. World Lung Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 2017

Stirling RG, Wasiak J, Earnest A, Brand M, Holt N, Mansfield L, Mott H, Gooi J, Ruben J, Moore M, McInerney M, Li C and Evans S. Screening for psychological distress in lung cancer: Defining the unmet gaps. World Lung Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 2017

Alexander M, Ball D, Stirling RG, Officer A, MacManus M, Solomon B, Burbury K, Wolfe R, Evans SM. The influence of comorbidity and the Simplified Comorbidity Score (SCS) on overall survival in lung cancer – a prospective cohort study. J Thorac Oncol. 2016. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2016.01.016

Evans SM, Earnest A, Bower W, Senthuran M, McLaughlin P, Stirling R. Timeliness of lung cancer care in Victoria: a retrospective cohort study. Med J Aust. 2016. doi: https://doi.org/10.5694/mja15.01026

Stirling RG, Evans SM, McNeil JJ. Emerging evidence of a clinical quality registry as a driver of improvement in lung cancer outcomes. J Thorac Oncol. 2014. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0000000000000101

Stirling RG, Evans SM, McLaughlin P, Senthuren M, Millar J, Gooi J, Irving L, Mitchell P, Haydon P, Ruben J, Conron M, Leong T, Watkins N, McNeil JJ. The Victorian Lung Cancer Registry Pilot: Improving the quality of lung cancer care through the use of a disease quality registry lung cancer. Lung. 2014. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-014-9603-8