Dr Amee Morgans

BA (Psych) BAppSci (Hons) (Psychophys), PhD, GCHE

Research Fellow

Profile

Teaching

• Emergency Health Services Research
• Evidence-based practice
• Ambulance demand and patient perspective
• Emergency mental health management
• Research Ethics

Research Interests

• Patient decision making
• Health emergencies
• Patient Perspective
• Bioethics in emergency health
• Qualitative Research

Awards

• Awarded Vice Chancellors Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence in March 2007
• Recipient Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship

Publications

Journal Articles  -  Peer Reviewed

Morgans A., (2010) Waiver of Informed Consent in Prehospital Emergency Health Research in Australia. Monash Bioethics Review, 29 (1).

Morgans, A., Smith, E., Burgess, S., Bielejs, I. (2010) Community-Based Influenza Surveillance: The Role Of Community Based Emergency Health Care Organisations. Prehospital Disaster Medicine (In Press).

Morgans, A., Burgess, S Archer, F (2010) Appropriate and Inappropriate use of Emergency Health Services in Australia: A Review. Australian Health Review (In Press).

Morgans, A., (2009) Theories of Decision Making Used by Patients in Prehospital Health Emergencies. Submitted to the Australian Journal of Psychology December 2009.

Morgans, A., Archer, F., Allen, FCL, (2008) Patient Decision Making in Prehospital Health Emergencies: Determinants and Predictors of Delay Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care Vol 6 Issue 3.

Smith, G., Morgans, A., Boyle, M., (2008) Use of the Valsalva Maneuvre in the prehospital setting: a review of the literature. Emergency Medicine Journal, Vol 26, p8-10.

Smith, E., Morgans, A., Qureshi, C., Archer, F., Burkle Jr, F (2008) Paramedics' perceptions of risk and willingness to work during disasters. The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol 23,No 213-19.

Bielajs, I., Archer, F., Burkle, F., Jr., Kelly, H., Coory, M., Tippett, V., Jamrozik, K., Grant, K. Morgans, A. Watt, K. Raven, S. (2007). (Abstract) Ambulance call taking and dispatch data: new approaches to population based infectious disease surveillance and triage. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, 5(3), 1p

Smith, E., Morgans, E., Biggs, J., and Buchanan, R., (2007) Managing health information during disasters: a survey of current specialized health information systems in Victorian hospitals. Health Information Management Journal, Vol 36 no. 1. pp23-29.

Flynn, J., Archer, F., Morgans, A E., (2006) Sensitivity and Specificity of the Medical Priority Dispatch System in Detecting Cardiac Arrest Emergency Calls in Melbourne. Prehospital Disaster Medicine, 21:2, (73-79).

Morgans, A. E., Archer, F., Walker, T., & Thuma, E. (2005). Barriers to Accessing Ambulance Services in Rural Victoria for Acute Asthma: Patient's and Health professional's Perspectives. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 13 (116-120).

Morgans, A. E., & Allen, F. C. L. (2005). Getting Ethics Committee Approval for Research: A Beginners Guide. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, 3 (3).

Bruck, D., Kennedy, G., Cooper, A., Apel, S. (2004) Diurnal Actigraphy and stimulant efficacy in narcolepsy. Human Psychopharmacology and Clinical Experimentation, 20, pp105-113.

Journal Articles  -  Non-Peer Reviewed

Morgans A. Johanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Qualitative Meta-Analysis course. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care. 2006; 4(1): 4p.

Conference Presentations – Peer Reviewed

Morgans, A E., Archer, F., (2004) Conference Presentation: Rural Community Utilisation of Emergency Health Care for Asthma. 10th National Health Outcomes Conference, Canberra, September 2004

Morgans, A E., Allen F C L., Archer, F. (2004) Conference Presentation: Patient Decision Making Processes That Lead To “Inappropriate” Emergency Department And Ambulance Use. 10th National Health Outcomes Conference, Canberra, September 2004.

Morgans, A E., Archer, F., (2004) Conference Presentation: Rural Emergency Health Care For Asthma: The Role Of Patient Perception And Medical Professionals On Ambulance Utilisation. Australian College of Ambulance Professionals, Alice Springs September 2004

Morgans, A E., Archer, F., Allen, F C L. (2004) Conference Presentation: Patient Decision Making Processes And Their Outcomes When Deciding To Call An Ambulance: What Are Patients Thinking? Australian College of Ambulance Professionals, Alice Springs September 2004

Morgans, A.E, Allen, F C L., (2004) Conference Presentation: Informed Consent and Decision making Capacity in Emergency and Prehospital Research. 7th World Congress on Bioethics, Sydney.

Morgans, A E., Allen F C L., Archer, F. (2004) Conference Presentation: Triangulating Methodology and Data Sources to Increase the Value of Qualitative Research in a Quantitative World. Qual-IT 2004, 24-26th November, Brisbane.