Dr Rory Miller
Position | Senior Lecturer and Director Rural Postgraduate Programme |
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Department | Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin) |
Qualifications | MB ChB FRNZCGP FDRHMNZ |
Research summary | Exploring rural health inequities especially in cardiovascular health |
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Clinical | Rural hospital medicine, rural general practice |
Additional details
Editor of Leaning on Fenceposts
Publications
Miller, R., Nixon, G., Stokes, T., Smith, M., Pickering, J. W., Liepins, T., & Than, M. (2022). The cost-savings of the rural accelerated chest pain pathway for low-risk chest pain in rural general practice: A cost minimisation analysis. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC22117
Blattner, K., Clay, L., Miller, R., Nixon, G., Crengle, S., Richard, L., … Stokes, T. (2022). New Zealand's rural hospitals in 2021: Findings from an exploratory questionnaire survey. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(3), 254-258. doi: 10.1071/HC22072
McGuinness, M. J., Harmston, C., on behalf of STRATA, including Miller, R. (2022). Management and outcomes of rib fractures in patients with isolated blunt thoracic trauma: Results of the Aotearoa New Zealand RiBZ study. Injury. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.058
Norman, T., Young, J., Jones, J. S., Egan, G., Pickering, J., Du Toit, S., … Miller, R., Frampton, C., … George, P., & Than, M. (2022). Implementation and evaluation of a rural general practice assessment pathway for possible cardiac chest pain using point-of-care troponin testing: A pilot study. BMJ Open, 12, e044801. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044801
Blattner, K., Faatoese, A., Smith, M., Maoate, K., Miller, R., & Richards, R. (2022). New Zealand postgraduate medical training by distance for Pacific Island country-based general practitioners: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(1), 74-79. doi: 10.1071/HC21090
Blattner, K., Clay, L., Miller, R., Nixon, G., Crengle, S., Richard, L., … Stokes, T. (2022). New Zealand's rural hospitals in 2021: Findings from an exploratory questionnaire survey. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(3), 254-258. doi: 10.1071/HC22072
Journal - Research Article
Blattner, K., Faatoese, A., Smith, M., Maoate, K., Miller, R., & Richards, R. (2022). New Zealand postgraduate medical training by distance for Pacific Island country-based general practitioners: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(1), 74-79. doi: 10.1071/HC21090
Journal - Research Article
Blattner, K., Miller, R., Smith, M., & Lander, J. (2022). Doing without the residential component of a blended postgraduate rural medical programme during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand: Student perspectives. Education for Primary Care, 33(2), 77-84. doi: 10.1080/14739879.2021.2011626
Journal - Research Article
McGuinness, M. J., Harmston, C., on behalf of STRATA, including Miller, R. (2022). Management and outcomes of rib fractures in patients with isolated blunt thoracic trauma: Results of the Aotearoa New Zealand RiBZ study. Injury. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.058
Journal - Research Article
Miller, R., Nixon, G., Pickering, J. W., Stokes, T., Turner, R. M., Young, J., Gutenstein, M., Smith, M., … Watson, A., George, P., … Than, M. (2022). A prospective multi-centre study assessing the safety and effectiveness following the implementation of an accelerated chest pain pathway using point-of-care troponin for use in New Zealand rural hospital and primary care settings. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ehjacc/zuac037
Journal - Research Article
Miller, R., Nixon, G., Stokes, T., Smith, M., Pickering, J. W., Liepins, T., & Than, M. (2022). The cost-savings of the rural accelerated chest pain pathway for low-risk chest pain in rural general practice: A cost minimisation analysis. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC22117
Journal - Research Article
Norman, T., Young, J., Jones, J. S., Egan, G., Pickering, J., Du Toit, S., … Miller, R., Frampton, C., … George, P., & Than, M. (2022). Implementation and evaluation of a rural general practice assessment pathway for possible cardiac chest pain using point-of-care troponin testing: A pilot study. BMJ Open, 12, e044801. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044801
Journal - Research Article
Blattner, K., Miller, R. M., Lawrence-Lodge, R., Nixon, G., McHugh, P., & Pirini, J. (2021). New Zealand's vocational Rural Hospital Medicine Training Programme: The first ten years. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1529), 57-68. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Miller, R., Bell, S., TenEyck, L., & Topping, M. (2021). A retrospective observational study of critically unwell patients retrieved from Thames Hospital between April 2018 and December 2020. Journal of Primary Health Care, 13(3), 231-237. doi: 10.1071/hc21058
Journal - Research Article
Nixon, G., Blattner, K., Withington, S., Miller, R., & Stokes, T. (2021). Exploring the response to the Covid-19 pandemic at the rural hospital-base hospital interface: Experiences of New Zealand rural hospital doctors. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1545), 11-21. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Lee, S., Miller, R., Lee, M., White, H., & Kerr, A. J. (2020). Outcomes after ST-elevation myocardial infarction presentation to hospitals with or without a routine primary percutaneous coronary intervention service (ANZACS-QA 46). New Zealand Medical Journal, 133(1524), 64-81. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Miller, R., Stokes, T., & Nixon, G. (2019). Point-of-care troponin use in New Zealand rural hospital: A national survey. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1493), 25-37. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Blattner, K., Lawrence-Lodge, R., Miller, R., Nixon, G., McHugh, P., & Pirini, J. (2020). New Zealand's Rural Hospital Medicine training program at 10 years: Locality and career choice of the first graduate cohort [Short report]. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 28, 623-625. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12678
Journal - Research Other
Hansen, S., Liu, S., D'Souza, R., & Miller, R. (2020). Time to surgery for fractured neck of femur in the Waikato District Health Board: Comparison between rural and metropolitan hospitals between 2017 and 2019 [Short report]. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 28, 506-508. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12664
Journal - Research Other
Miller, R., Young, J., Nixon, G., Pickering, J. W., Stokes, T., Turner, R., … Gutenstein, M., … George, P. M., … Than, M. (2020). Study protocol for an observational study to evaluate an accelerated chest pain pathway using point-of-care troponin in New Zealand rural and primary care populations. Journal of Primary Health Care, 12(2), 129-138. doi: 10.1071/HC19059
Journal - Research Other
Nixon, G., Blattner, K., Miller, R., Bolden, F., Jelley, G., & Keys, J. (2019). Few New Zealand medical students intend to work in rural areas. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1498), 105-106. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Other
Miller, R., & Nixon, G. (2018). The assessment of acute chest pain in New Zealand rural hospitals utilising point-of-care troponin. Journal of Primary Health Care, 10(1), 90-92. doi: 10.1071/HC18007
Journal - Research Other
Stevenson, A.-M., Bradshaw, R., Cook, J., Cunningham, R., Riddick, L., Miller, R., Edwards, R., Wilson, N., & Thomson, G. (2008). Majority of smokers and non-smokers in favour of smokefree parks in New Zealand [Letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal, 121(1274). Retrieved from http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/121-1274/3083/content.pdf
Journal - Research Other