"Tasmania" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An island south of Australia and the smallest state of the Commonwealth. Its capital is Hobart. It was discovered and named Van Diemen's Island in 1642 by Abel Tasman, a Dutch navigator, in honor of the Dutch governor-general of the Dutch East Indian colonies. It was renamed for the discoverer in 1853. In 1803 it was taken over by Great Britain and was used as a penal colony. It was granted government in 1856 and federated as a state in 1901. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1190 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, p535)
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D013648
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.639.100.984 Z01.678.100.373.984
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tasmania" by people in Profiles.
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Lessons for Workforce Disaster Planning from the First Nosocomial Outbreak of COVID-19 in Rural Tasmania, Australia: A Case Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 28; 18(15).
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Decommissioning and recommissioning a regional hospital in response to a COVID-19 outbreak. Rural Remote Health. 2021 04; 21(2):6256.
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The Spatial Impacts of COVID-19 Restrictions on LGBTIQ Wellbeing, Visibility, and Belonging in Tasmania, Australia. J Homosex. 2021 Mar 21; 68(4):647-662.
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A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Science. 2020 12 11; 370(6522).
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Epidemiology and clinical features of emergency department patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19: A multisite report from the COVID-19 Emergency Department Quality Improvement Project for July 2020 (COVED-3). Emerg Med Australas. 2021 02; 33(1):114-124.
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Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Predictors of Food Insecurity in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nutrients. 2020 Sep 02; 12(9).
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Intense pressure on the Royal Hobart Hospital after psychiatric bed cuts. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2018 05; 52(5):494-495.
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Air guns used in offshore oil exploration can kill tiny marine life. Nature. 2017 06 22; 546(7660):586-587.
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A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia. Nature. 2016 Oct 13; 538(7624):207-214.
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Introduction to propensity scores. Respirology. 2014 Jul; 19(5):625-35.