Professor Kirsten Vallmuur
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Professor Kirsten Vallmuur is the Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics (funded by the Motor Accident Insurance Commission) in a joint position between the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (www.aushsi.org.au) and the Jamieson Trauma Institute (https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/jamieson-trauma-institute). She leads the Jamieson Trauma Institute's Trauma Data Quality and Analytics theme. Her team is currently undertaking research projects drawing on linked trauma data, available through existing data systems in Queensland. The work of the unit is focused on scoping the breadth and depth of data collected on trauma across the continuum of care, developing best practice methods and tools for using linked trauma data, and analysing these data to better understand the causes, trends, patterns, burden, costs and outcomes of trauma in Queensland. This work is contributing to the broader Queensland Statewide Trauma Data Warehouse development project being run by Queensland Health. She is a previous Australian Research Council Future Fellow where she worked in the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety. She has expertise in the analysis and understanding of morbidity and mortality coded data sets, injury surveillance systems, trauma data linkage, health classifications and injury classifications. She has conducted numerous collaborative health data research projects with internal and external university based researchers, government and non-government agencies in the following areas:- Consumer product safety injury surveillance
- External cause of injury classifications
- Injury surveillance using emergency department hospital and mortality data
- Morbidity and mortality data quality
- Child abuse documentation coding and reporting
- Identification of occupational injury in health databases
- Identification of alcohol-related injury in health databases.
Research interests
- Consumer product safety
- Morbidity and mortality data quality
- Injury surveillance systems
- Trauma data linkage
- Health classifications
- Injury classifications.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor & Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
data quality, health information system, injury surveillance, trauma, data linkage, epidemiology, health classification, injury prevention
Research field
Public health, Library and information studies, Other biomedical and clinical sciences
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
- Vallmuur, K., McCreanor, V., Cameron, C., Watson, A., Shibl, R., Banu, S., McPhail, S. & Warren, J. (2021). Three Es of linked injury data: Episodes, Encounters and Events. Injury Prevention, 27(5), 479–489. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211772
- Andrews, R., Wynn, M., Vallmuur, K., Elcock, M., Rashford, S., Bosley, E. & ter Hofstede, A. (2021). Trauma by-pass guideline: A data-driven conformance analysis for road trauma cases in Queensland. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 33(6), 1059–1065. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210836
- Andrews, R., Wynn, M., Vallmuur, K., Ter Hofstede, A. & Bosley, E. (2020). A comparative process mining analysis of road trauma patient pathways. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(10). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202624
- Curtis, K., Gabbe, B., Vallmuur, K., Martin, K., Nahidi, S., Shaban, R., Pollard, C. & Christey, G. (2020). Challenges to trauma care delivery for Australian and New Zealand trauma clinicians. Injury, 51(5), 1183–1188. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/136991
- Niven, C., Mathews, B., Harrison, J. & Vallmuur, K. (2020). Hazardous children's products on the Australian and US market 2011-2017: an empirical analysis of child-related product safety recalls. Injury Prevention, 26(4), 344–350. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197226
- Curtis, K., Nahidi, S., Gabbe, B., Vallmuur, K., Martin, K., Shaban, R. & Christey, G. (2020). Identifying the priority challenges in trauma care delivery for Australian and New Zealand trauma clinicians. Injury, 51(9), 2053–2058. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205011
- Nanda, G., Vallmuur, K. & Lehto, M. (2020). Intelligent human-machine approaches for assigning groups of injury codes to accident narratives. Safety Science, 125. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197336
- Roberts, K., Thom, O., Eley, R., Cabilan, C. & Vallmuur, K. (2020). Long term impact of ladder-related injuries as measured by the AQoL instrument. PLoS ONE, 15(6). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205012
- Curtis, K., Gabbe, B., Shaban, R., Nahidi, S., Pollard, C., Vallmuur, K., Martin, K. & Christey, G. (2020). Priorities for trauma quality improvement and registry use in Australia and New Zealand. Injury, 51(1), 84–90. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197285
- Vallmuur, K., (2020). Artificial intelligence or manufactured stupidity? The need for injury informaticians in the big data era. Injury Prevention, 26(4), 400–401. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199971
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kirsten, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Evaluating consumer product regulatory responses to improve child safety
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP170103136
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- Evaluating and developing the evidence-base and data mining approaches to strengthen the consumer product safety system in Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- FT120100202
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- consumer products; injury surveillance; data mining; information systems
- Title
- Emergency Health Services: Demand and Service Delivery Models
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0882650
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Emergency Medicine; Ambulance; Prehospital Care; Emergency Medical Systems; Emergency Services
- Title
- Improving the Measurement and Surveillance of Child Abuse in Queensland
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0882093
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Population Health; Health Classifications; Child Abuse and Neglect; Data Linkage; Child Protection
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Pre-hospital trauma triage: Epidemiology, accuracy and economics
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steven McPhail - From roadside to recovery: Long-term burden and cost of transport-related injuries impacting the Queensland healthcare system
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Victoria McCreanor
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Evaluating Australian and US Consumer Product Safety Regulatory Responses to Hazardous Children's Products (2020)
- Quads and Kids: Understanding Parents' Attitudes and Beliefs about Safety and Risks (2020)
- Safety in Supply Chains: Evaluating Sources of Evidence (2020)
- Is Identifying as Indigenous Good for Your Health? Investigating the Relationship between Indigenous Status Identification and Management of Cardiovascular Disease (2017)
- Prescription Opioid Analgesic Drug Misuse: What Can We Learn from Doctor-Shopping Behaviour (2017)
- Developing and Evaluating Approaches for Utilising Injury Data to Support Product Safety Initiatives (2015)
- Growing Demand for Emergency Department Services: Associated Factors and Perspective of Patients (2015)
- Piecing the puzzle together: enhancing the quality of road trauma surveillance through linkage of police and health data (2015)
- Designing A Continuum Of Quality External Cause of Injury Information in Queensland: From Ambulance To Hospital (2013)
- Improving the measurement and surveillance of child abuse in Qld emergency departments (2012)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.