Basia joined the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in 2006.
She holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Hons) from Monash University and is in the final stages of completing her Ph D, which aims at improving the care and management of community-based patients being treated with warfarin by indentifying risk factors that contribute to warfarin instability. Basia has a particular interest in medication safety through the identification of adverse events both at an individual and system level.
Basia is also a passionate lecturer and enjoys her teaching role. She is currently a unit coordinator within the Bachelor of Health Sciences and Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Monash University. Basia has helped develop and run her 3 units and now teaches anatomy, disease and epidemiology.
Research: warfarin project, fluoride project
Lowthian, J., Joyce, C.M., Diug, B., Dooley, M., 2011, Patient safety in primary care: Are general practice nurses the answer to improving warfarin safety? An Australian perspective, Worldviews On Evidence-Based Nursing [P], vol 8, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., United States, pp. 25-29.
Diug, B., Evans, S., Lowthian, J., Maxwell, E., Dooley, M., Street, A., Wolfe, R., Cameron, P., McNeil, J.J., 2011, The unrecognized psychosocial factors contributing to bleeding risk in warfarin therapy, Stroke [P], vol 42, issue 10, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, United States, pp. 2866-2871.
Lowthian, J., Diug, B.O., Evans, S.M., Maxwell, E., Street, A., Piterman, L., McNeil, J.J., 2009, Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?, Medical Journal Of Australia [P], vol 190, issue 12, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., Australia, pp. 674-677.
Lowthian, J., Diug, B.O., 2008, Lessons from the TAPS study - warfarin: a major cause of threats to patient safety, Australian Family Physician, vol 37, issue 12, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australia, p. 983.
Diug, B.O., Lowthian, J., Evans, S.M., 2007, Warfarin versus aspririn for stroke prevention (BAFTA), The Lancet, vol 370, issue 9599, The Lancet Publishing Group, United Kingdom, p. 1606.
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