Magnolia Cardona

Academic, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
Academic, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6499-2705

Phone+61 7 5595 0170
Emailmcardona@bond.edu.au

Bond University, Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
4229 Gold Coast
Australia

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Systematic Review of Overtreatment in Australia at population level

995 Citations
17 h-Index

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Personal profile

Research interests

Associate Professor Magnolia Cardona is a health services researcher with a passion for ensuring high quality care of disadvantaged populations. Her work over the past few years has focused on the identification and reduction of overtreatment of older patients near the end of life.

Since 2014 she has led a program of research to improve end-of-life care for patients, families and health professionals (https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sense-ending). Central to this was the development, implementation and validation of a checklist for identifying terminal patients and facilitating doctor's conversations with patients and families about end-of-life care preferences. See CriSTAL project page, available at:

https://swscs.med.unsw.edu.au/project/validation-cristal-criteria-screening-and-triaging-appropriate-alternative-care

Another research initiative which recently attracted international media attention was a review of unnecesary treatments in hospitals at the end of life. The global publicity indicated that these sensitive topics apply across cultures and highlighted the willingness of clinicians and service managers to address them in several health systems.

http://theconversation.com/doctors-still-provide-too-many-dying-patients-with-needless-treatment-61091

https://croakey.org/please-dont-let-this-happen-to-me-too-much-medicine-at-the-end-of-life/

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/global-analysis-finds-unnecessary-end-life-treatment-widespread

Her research program supports Dying to Know Day, a time to bring conversations on the importance of stating your last wishes before it is too late.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/day-voice-your-dying-preferences

The Palliative Medicine journal awarded her team a Paper of the Year Award in 2016 for a systematic review on the perceived and actual benefits of advance care documentation

https://eapcnet.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/palliative-medicine-paper-of-the-year-award-helping-clinicians-engage-in-end-of-life-discussions-with-older-dying-patients/

A/Prof Cardona has a background in Medicine from Latin America with Australian postgraduate qualifications in Public Health (MPH) and Applied Epidemiology (PhD and Grad Dipl Appl Epidemiology).

She has worked with international aid agencies in Europe and Africa, at State Health Departments and Universities in Australia, and has eight years experience teaching at the Master's level. Her research interests are health services research, health program evaluation, patient safety, end-of-life care, chronic disease prevention (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer), international health, pharmacoepidemiology and evidence-based health policy.

Education/Academic qualification

Research Translation in General Practice, PhD, University of Sydney

2008 → 2011

Health Economics, Certificate, Monash University

1996

Epidemiology, Grad Diploma of Applied Epidemiology, NSW Vocational Education & Accreditation Board (VETAB)

1993 → 1996

Public Health, Master of Public Health, University of Sydney

1991 → 1993

Medicine, Bachelor or Medicine and Surgery, Universidad del Valle

1978 → 1984

External positions

Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales

Oct 2013 → Jun 2018

Epidemiologist, R&D Branch, NPS MedicineWise

2011 → 2013

Statistician/Data Manager, Prevention Research Collaboration, University of Sydney

2008 → 2011

Research Associate, Sydney Health Projects Group, University of Sydney

2006 → 2008

Program Manager, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney

2003 → 2006

Coordinating Epidemiologist, Public Health Services Division, Queensland Health

1999 → 2003

Emergency Preparedness Epidemiologist, Médecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

1996 → 1999

Public Health Officer Trainee, NSW Health

1993 → 1996

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Projects

3 Finished

Optimising early end-of-life conversations and advance care planning in general practice: (Stage 1)

Cardona, M., Williamson, M., Gullotta, J., Lindner, R., Ni Chroinin, D., Hillman, K., Jones, M., Lewis, E. T. & Morgan, M.

1/02/18 → 31/07/19

Project: Research

Identifying older adults at risk of poor outcomes to promote advance care planning among aged care residents

Cardona, M., Lewis, E. T., Brisbane, J., Ni Chroinin, D., Lovell, N., Achat, H. & Hillman, K.

1/11/17 → 30/06/19

Project: Research

Electronic tool to facilitate decision-making and advance care planning at the end of life in Emergency Departments

Cardona, M., Lewis, E. T., Alkhouri, H., Lovell, N., Asha, S. E. & Turner, R. M.

1/05/17 → 30/06/19

Project: Research

Research Output

Non-beneficial treatments in hospital at the end of life: A systematic review on extent of the problem

Cardona-Morrell, M., Kim, J. C. H., Turner, R. M., Anstey, M., Mitchell, I. A. & Hillman, K., 1 Sep 2016, In : International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 28, 4, p. 456-469 14 p., mzw060.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

83 Citations (Scopus)

Are We Making Progress on Communication with People Who Are Near the End of Life in the Australian Health System? A Thematic Analysis

Trankle, S. A., Shanmugam, S., Lewis, E., Nicholson, M., Hillman, K. & Cardona, M., 28 Jan 2020, In : Health Communication. 35, 2, p. 158-167 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Strategies for improving end-of-life discussions

Cardona, M., Wee, I. J. Y., Lewis, E. T., Hunt, J., Hillman, K., Greenaway, S. & Ní Chróinín, D., Feb 2020, In : Australian Ageing Agenda. JAN-FEB, p. 16-17 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Magazine Article › Professional

Open Access