Belinda Fazekas
- Bachelor of Nursing
- Graduate Diploma in Community Health
Position
Research Manager, Southern Adelaide Palliative Services
Research Areas
- Clinical Trials
- Dyspnoea research
- Population studies
- Trials management
Other Projects
Carers' Experience of Relinquishment and 'Role Transition' Following the Admission of their Care Recipients to an Acute Care Setting and Subsequent Referral to Southern Palliative Care Service
Granting agency: FMC Foundation
Principle investigator: Ann Harrington
Co-investigators: D Currow, J Jones, K Swetenham,
B Fazekas
Pulling Together – Neighbourhood Palliative Care Project
Granting agency: Australian Government,
Department of Health and Ageing
Principle investigator: D Currow
Co-investigators: Un-named team, including
B Fazekas
Competitive Grants
A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness if Academic Detailing in Dyspnoea in Cancer Patients in aPalliative Care Setting.
Granting agency: The Cancer Council –
South Australia
Principle investigator: D Currow
Co-investigators: A Abernethy, D Rowett,
T Shelby-James, B Fazekas, P Allcroft
A Double-Blind, Dose-Ranging Study to Determine the Optimal Dose of Oral Morphine or Oxycodone Needed to Treat Breakthrough Pain for People on Regular Morphine In The Palliative Care Setting.
Granting agency: Foundation Daw Park
Principle investigator: D Currow
Co-investigators: D Cherry, G Gourlay, J
Plummer, C Sanderson, B Fazekas.
Evidence-Based Review of Case Conferencing.
Granting agency: Australian Primary Health
Care Research Initiatives
Principle investigator: D Currow
Co-investigators: G Mitchell, T Shelby-James,
J Tieman.
A Multi-Centre Randomised Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Oxygen versus Air for the Relief of Breathlessness in Terminally-Ill Patients with Intractable Dyspnoea and Pao2>55mmhg
Granting Agency: National Health and Medical
Research Council (ID; 324 770)
Principal Investigator: Currow DC
Co-investigators: Abernethy AP, Frith PA,
Fazekas BS, Woods D, McDonald C, Clark K.
A Multi-Centre Randomised Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Oxygen versus Air for the Relief of Breathlessness in Terminally-Ill Patients with Intractable Dyspnoea And Pao2>55mmhg
Granting Agency: Cancer Council of Tasmania
Principal Investigator: Currow DC
Co-investigators: Abernethy AP, Crockett
AJ, Frith PA, Fazekas BS,
The Role of Oxygen in Patients with Pao2>55mmhg and Intractable Dyspnea Nearing the End of Life.
Granting Agency: Perth Collins Grant Fund
of Foundation Daw Park
Principal Investigator: Currow DC
Co-investigators: Crockett AJ, Abernethy
AP, Fazekas BS, McHugh A, and Frith PA
Improving Pain Management in Palliative Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Academic Detailing for GPs vs. Patients.
Granting Agency: Anti-Cancer Council of
South Australia
Principal Investigator: Abernethy AP
Co-investigators: Phillips P, Esterman A,
Fazekas B.
Publications
- Abernethy A, Shelby-James T, Fazekas B, Woods D, Currow D. The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice [ISRCTN 81117481] BMC Palliative Care 2005, 4:7
- Jennifer J Tieman, Amy P Abernethy, Belinda S Fazekas and David C Currow. CareSearch: Finding and evaluating Australia's missing palliative care literature. BMC Palliative Care, 2005; 4:4.
- Abernethy AP, Currow DC, Frith P, and Fazekas BS. Prescribing palliative oxygen: a clinician survey of expected benefit and patterns of use. Palliative Medicine. 2005; 19:1-2
- Currow DC, Abernethy AP, and Fazekas BS. Specialist palliative care needs of whole populations: a feasibility study using a novel approach. Palliative Medicine. 2004;18:239-247.
- Currow D, Clare J, Cooper J, Fazekas B, Glaetzer K, Hegarty M, Parker D, Roe P & Tieman J Palliative Care in Aged Care Settings: A Structured Review of the Literature, 2003, Department of Palliative and Supportive Services
- Abernethy AP, Currow DC, Frith PA, Fazekas BS, McHugh A, and Bui C. A prospective randomised double-blind placebo controlled cross-over trial of sustained release morphine in opioid naïve patients with refractory dyspnoea. British Medical Journal 2003; 327: 523-526.
- Currow DC, Abernethy AP, Frith PA, Fazekas BS, McHugh A, and Bui C. A prospective randomised double-blind placebo controlled cross-over trial of sustained release morphine in opioid naïve patients with refractory dyspnoea. Supportive Care in Cancer 2002; 10: 350-381. (abstract)
- Silagy CA, Weller DP, Lapsley H , Shelby-James T, Fazekas B.. The effectiveness of local adaptations of nationally produced clinical practice guidelines. Family Practice 2002: 19;3; 223-230
- Hunt R, Fazekas B, Luke C, Priest K, Roder D. Equity in the coverage of cancer patients by designated palliative services? A population-based study, South Australia, 1999. Palliative Medicine 2002. 16: 1-7.
- Abernethy AP, Currow DC, Crawford GB, Fazekas BS, and Phillips PA. Improving pain management in palliative care: a pilot study of academic detailing for general practitioners and patients. Supportive Care in Cancer 2001; 9(4): 285. (abstract)
- Roger W Hunt, Belinda S Fazekas, Colin C Luke, David M Roder. Where patients with cancer die in South Australia, 1990-1999: a population based review. MJA 2001; 175: 526-529.
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