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Overview

Jane M. Hughes is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has an extensive body of research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work encompasses various subfields including General Health Professions, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Education, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Recent publication venues where Jane M. Hughes has contributed include the Journal of Long-Term Care, Research Square, British Journal of Surgery, Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). The Journal of Long-Term Care is the most frequent venue with five publications.

Among the scientist's recent papers are:

  • Association between preadmission frailty and care level at discharge in older adults undergoing emergency laparotomy (2020), published in British Journal of Surgery
  • The Dementia Early Stage Cognitive Aids New Trial (DESCANT) intervention: A goal attainment scaling approach to promote self-management (2020), published in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Components, impacts and costs of dementia home support: a research programme including the DESCANT RCT (2021), published in Programme Grants for Applied Research
  • Protocol for Take-home naloxone In Multicentre Emergency (TIME) settings: feasibility study (2020), published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • The influence of social media on recruitment to surgical trials (2020), published in BMC Medical Research Methodology

Jane M. Hughes has frequent collaborations with several co-authors, including:

  • David Challis
  • Helen Chester
  • Daniel J. Schmidt
  • Paul Clarkson
  • Rosa Pitts

Best Publications

  • Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics

    David M.J.S. Bowman;G.K. Brown;G.K. Brown;Michael Braby;J.R. Brown

  • Genes in Streams: Using DNA to Understand the Movement of Freshwater Fauna and Their Riverine Habitat

    Jane M. Hughes;Daniel J. Schmidt;Debra S. Finn

  • Small but mighty: headwaters are vital to stream network biodiversity at two levels of organization

    Debra S. Finn;Debra S. Finn;Núria Bonada;Cesc Múrria;Cesc Múrria;Jane M. Hughes

  • Constraints on recovery: using molecular methods to study connectivity of aquatic biota in rivers and streams

    Jane M. Hughes

  • Dispersal and recruitment in streams: evidence from genetic studies

    Stuart E. Bunn;Jane M. Hughes

  • Human effects on ecological connectivity in aquatic ecosystems: Integrating scientific approaches to support management and mitigation

    David A. Crook;Winsor H. Lowe;Frederick W. Allendorf;Tibor Erős

  • Ecological roles and threats to aquatic refugia in arid landscapes: dryland river waterholes

    Fran Sheldon;Stuart Bunn;Jane Hughes;Angela Arthington

  • When oceans meet: A teleost shows secondary intergradation at an Indian-Pacific interface.

    S. F. Chenoweth;J. M. Hughes;C. P. Keenan;S. Lavery

  • Mitochondrial DNA evidence for rapid colonisation of the Indo-West Pacific by the mudcrab Scylla serrata

    D. Gopurenko;J. M. Hughes;C. P. Keenan

  • The taxonomic feedback loop: symbiosis of morphology and molecules.

    Timothy J Page;Satish C Choy;Jane M Hughes

  • Gene Flow among Conspecific Populations of Baetis sp. (Ephemeroptera): Adult Flight and Larval Drift

    Sonja K. Schmidt;Jane M. Hughes;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Phylogeography of the freshwater fish, Mogurnda adspersa, in streams of northeastern Queensland, Australia: evidence for altered drainage patterns

    D. A. Hurwood;J. M. Hughes

  • Concordance between dispersal and mitochondrial gene flow: isolation by distance in a tropical teleost, Lates calcarifer (Australian barramundi)

    Stephen F Chenoweth;Jane M Hughes;Clive P Keenan;Shane Lavery

  • Genetic structure of the stonefly, Yoraperla brevis, populations: the extent of gene flow among adjacent montane streams

    Jane M. Hughes;Peter B. Mather;Andrew L. Sheldon;Fred W. Allendorf

  • Regional patterns of genetic structure among Australian populations of the mud crab, Scylla serrata (Crustacea : Decapoda): evidence from mitochondrial DNA

    David Gopurenko;Jane M. Hughes

  • Biogeographic history of an Australian freshwater shrimp, Paratya australiensis (Atyidae): the role life history transition in phylogeographic diversification

    Benjamin Douglas Cook;A.M. Baker;Tim Page;Sharon Carol Grant

  • Effects of super-absorbent polymers on a soil-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) system in the field.

    Xi Li;Ji-Zheng He;Ji-Zheng He;Jane M. Hughes;Yu-Rong Liu

  • Alimentary Tract Bacteria Isolated and Identified with API-20E and Molecular Cloning Techniques from Australian Tropical Fruit Flies, Bactrocera cacuminata and B. tryoni

    N. Thaochan;R. A. I. Drew;J. M. Hughes;S. Vijaysegaran

  • Reconciling patterns of genetic variation with stream structure, earth history and biology in the Australian freshwater fish Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum (Atherinidae)

    Dugald McGlashan;Jane Hughes

  • Analyses of soil fungal communities in adjacent natural forest and hoop pine plantation ecosystems of subtropical Australia using molecular approaches based on 18S rRNA genes

    Jizheng He;Jizheng He;Zhihong Xu;Jane Hughes

  • Human effects on ecological connectivity in aquatic ecosystems: Integrating scientific approaches to support management and mitigation ; Science of the Total Environment

    David A. Crook;Winsor H. Lowe;Frederick W. Allendorf;Tibor Erős

Frequent Co-Authors

David Challis
David Challis University of Nottingham
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
Peter B. Mather
Peter B. Mather Queensland University of Technology
David A. Crook
David A. Crook Charles Darwin University
Ji-Zheng He
Ji-Zheng He University of Melbourne
Alistair Burns
Alistair Burns University of Manchester
Leo Joseph
Leo Joseph Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Chengrong Chen
Chengrong Chen Griffith University
Nick Bond
Nick Bond La Trobe University
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra

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