Yonas Tefera, PhD

Academic | Pharmacist | Pharmacoepidemiology | Public Health | Vigilant Observer. RT≠Endorsement.

[The Australian @australian]

Thousands of employees being treated for back and neck injuries are receiving high-risk opioid ­prescriptions funded by workers’ compensation systems. Details: https://t.co/TsAMiu96V8

[Healthy Working Lives Research Group @HealthyWLRG]

Thank you to @EwinHannan for the coverage of a new HWL study on early High-Risk Opioid Prescribing and Persistent Opioid Use in WC https://t.co/QNPJBNbBCy

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@zephab2 Thank you @zephab2.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

I had the honour of having two oral presentations from my PhD work at @IntPharmacoEpi 16th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, held at the University of Tokyo, Japan. It was a great privilege to learn from the leading experts in the field of Pharmacoepidemiology.

[Abebe B Mekuria @AbebeBasazn]

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED!!
Researchers from the University of South Australia are seeking adults over the age of 18 who are currently taking medicines to share their experiences through online surveys.
Take the survey👉https://t.co/B8m1dB1jcC.

[Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes @AG_Eyob]

Participants needed!

You can help make new medicines safer!

💊We, researchers from the University of South Australia, want to know what you know about reporting unwanted medicine effects, especially with the Therapeutic Goods Administration's Black Triangle Scheme.

We are interested in both consumers & healthcare professionals.

You can take our survey and win a $50 gift voucher! 🎁

💡Take our survey👉 https://t.co/Yarx1ArkNI

@DrRenly

[UoM Equity & Merit Scholarships @EandM_UoM]

WE ARE OPEN❗

📢We are pleased to announce that applications for 2025/26 entry are now open!

We accept applicants from #Ethiopia , #Malawi, #Rwanda, #Tanzania, #Uganda & #Zimbabwe.

For details on how to apply https://t.co/AYxT79dF5Y

We look forward to your applications!

[Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes @AG_Eyob]

📢 My latest publication! 📚✨

Anticholinergic burden (ACB) and HRQoL in Ethiopia

📊 828 participants
📈 High ACB ➡️ reduced #HRQoL
⬇️ Significant decline in EQ5D index (-0.174) & EQ5D-VAS scores (-9.4)
🌍#Ethiopia

https://t.co/60I6DE1CGa

#QualityOfLife #MedicationSafety

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@yaredbeleteb2 Congrats Yaredo. Well done!

[JOEMOnline @JrnlEnvirOccMed]

Capture, Coding, and Reporting of Health Care and Medicine Information in Australian Workers’ Compensation Systems
Tefera, Yonas Getaye et. al.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 66(5):p e213-e221, May 2024
https://t.co/ZpWaobHiZH
#JOEM

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@yeayalew @drJoKy @profjallain Congrats John! Well done.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

Harmonisation of data collection, data coding and reporting approaches in these schemes will advance understanding of whether the funded healthcare delivery is value-based care or not.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

📢 Our paper is published that characterise the data capture, existing coding schemas and reporting approaches of healthcare and medicine data in Australian workers' compensation schemes.

https://t.co/oP7jQITGL8

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

Variations exist in capture, coding and reporting approaches of healthcare and medicine data in Australian workers' compensation jurisdictions.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@BelacAdmasu @AusAntibiotics @garvey_gail @AbbeyDiaz_says Congrats Sewe, well done!

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

Moderate certainty evidence showed preoperative opioid use is associated with a reduction in odds of postoperative return-to-work by half in patients with spinal surgery

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

Pleased to share our systematic review and meta-analysis on preoperative opioid use and postoperative return to work following spinal surgery in workers’ compensation settings is published ahead of print @ International Journal of Surgery.
https://t.co/KSQMHtoquE

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@ErkuDaniel @cahe_griffith @Griffith_Health @MenziesHealth Congrats Dani for your well deserved recognition. Proud of you as usual.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@DrSuziNielsen @nhmrc @MonashAddiction @AiliLangford @CentMedUseSafet @Josephsdoyle @BurnetInstitute Congratulations, Suzi. Well deserved.

[Yonas Tefera, PhD @yonas1get]

@BelacAdmasu @lisadrepi Congratulations Sewe. Best of luck in your next journey.