A/Professor Michael Coory

contact details

  A/Professor Michael Coory
  Health Services
  Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
  Royal Children's Hospital
  Flemington Road
  Parkville Victoria 3052

  T  0432 712 154
  E michael.coory@mcri.edu.au

biography

Michael Coory is a public-health physician (MBBS, FAFPHM) and bio-statistician (BSc, PhD, AStat). Before commencing at Murdoch Childrens Reserach Institute in 2011, he worked in both the government and university sectors.  He teaches statistics, statistical reasoning, and evidence-based medicine to medical students and clinicians. 

He has also taught and developed statistics subjects in Masters of Public Health programs; and has taught in the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia. He provides statistical advice to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the Therapeutic Goods Administration; and continues to serve on several quality committees for government.

research focus & interest

Michael Coory concentrates on health services research, including quality-of-care; assess-to-care and cost-of-care.  Specific research interests include statistical methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of new technologies, diffusion of new technologies, and paediatric drug use.

publications

Koh GT, Butow PN, Coory M, Budge D, James L, Whitehall J, Tattersall MH. Providing parents in a neonatal intensive care unit with audiorecordings of their conversation with neonatologists: a randomised trial. BMJ 2007;334:28-32.

Coory M, Roselli T, Carroll H. Antenatal-care implications of population-based trends in Down-syndrome birth rates by rurality and antenatal-care provider, Queensland, 1990-2004 Med J Aust 2007; 186: 230-234.

Coory M, Scott I. Analysing low-risk patient populations allows better discrimination between high and low performing hospitals.  A case study using in-hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction. Qual Saf Health Care 2007;16:324-328

Duckett S, Coory M, Sketcher-Baker K. Identifying variations in quality of care  in Queensland hospitals. Med J Aust 2007;187:571-575

Johnston T, Coory M, Scott I, Duckett S. Should we add clinical variables to administrative data? The case of risk-adjusted case fatality rates following admission for acute myocardial infarction. Med Care 2007;45:1180-1185

Coory M, Sketcher-Baker K, Duckett S. Using control charts to monitor quality of hospital care with administrative data. Int J Qual Health Care 2008;20:31-39.

Thompson B, Baade P, Coory M, Carrière P, Fritschi L. Patterns of surgical treatment for women diagnosed with early breast cancer in Queensland. Ann Surg Oncol; 2008; 15, 443-51.

McCaul KA, Fritchi L, Baade P, Coory M. The incidence of secondary primary melanoma in Queensland, 1982-2003. Cancer Causes Control 2008;19:451-458.
Coory M. Statistical inference is over-emphasised in cluster investigations: The case of the cluster of breast cancers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation studios in Brisbane, Australia. Int Med J 2008;38:288-291.

Coory M, Panagiota G, Kwun F, Yang I, Bowman R. Systematic review of multidisciplinary teams in the management of lung cancer. Lung Cancer 2008;60:14-21.

Coory M, Green A, Stirling J, Valery P. Matched cohort study comparing survival of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Queenslanders after a diagnosis of lung cancer. Med J Aust 2008;188:562-566.

Eckermann S, Coory M, Willan AR. Consistently estimating risk difference in a jurisdiction of interest: odds solution to relative risk fallacies. Value in Health. 2008; 11(6): A577-A578.

Wills RA, Coory M. Effect of smoking on preterm birth and full-term low birthweight among Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers. Med J Aust 2008;189(9):490-494.

Coory M, Gill D. Decreasing mortality from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Australia. Internal Medicine Journal 2008;38 (12):921-4.

Martin J, Coory M, Valery P, Green A. Association of diabetes with survival among cohorts of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians with cancer. Cancer Causes and Control. 2009; 20(3): 355-360.

Thompson B, Austin R, Coory M, Aitken J, Walpole E, Francis G, Fritschi L. Completeness of histopathology reporting of melanoma in a high-incidence geographical region Dermatology. 2009;218(1): 7-14.

Coory M, Kelly H, Tippett V. Assessment of ambulance dispatch data for surveillance of influenza-like-illness in Melbourne, Australia. Public Health 2009;123(2):163-168.

Austin R, Thompson B, Coory M, Francis G, Walpole E, Fritchi L. Histopathology reporting of breast cancer in Queensland: the effect of implementation of guidelines. Pathology 2009;41:361-365.

Howell S, Coory M, Duckett S, Martin J. Using routine-inpatient data to identify patients at risk of readmission. BMC Health Services Research. 2009;9:96.

Coory M, Thompson B, Baade P, Fritchi L. Utility of population-based cancer registries and administrative inpatient data for reporting feedback measures on the quality of cancer care. BMC Health Services Research. 2009;9:84.

Coory M, Wills RA, Barnet A. Frequentist versus Bayesian statistical inference in cancer cluster investigations. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009;9:30

Eckermann S, Coory M, Wellan AR. Indirect comparisons: relative risk fallacies and odds solution. J Clin Epidemiol.2009;62(10):1031-1036.

Lahmann PH, Wills RA, Coory MD. Trends in Birth Size and Macrosomia in Queensland, Australia, from 1988 to 2005 Paediat Perinat Epidemiol 2009;23(6):533-541.

Clarke M, Wills RA, Coory M, Yang I, Fong K. Database study of weekend effect for in-hospital mortality following emergency medical admission to public hospitals in Queensland, Australia. Int Med J Oct 7 2009 [Epub ahead of print]

Coory M, Koh G, Flenady V, Kemp M. Comment on: Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia: a population-based descriptive study. Med J Aust 2009;191:578.

Coory M, Kelly H, Grant K. Influenza-like illness surveillance using a deputising medical service. Eurosurveillance 2009 5;14(44) pii:19387.

Coory M. Commentary: heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be expected and appropriately quantified. Int J Epidemiol 2010;39:932.

Watt K, Tippett V, Raven S, Jamrozik K, Coory M, Archer F, Kelly H. Attitudes to living and working in pandemic conditions amongst emergency prehospital medical care personnel. Prehospital Disaster Med 2010;25:13-19.

Tippett V, Watt K, Raven S, Kelly H, Coory M, Archer F, Jamrozik K. Anticipated behaviours of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an Influenza pandemic. Prehospital Disaster Med 2010;25:20-25

Steiner SH, Riddell M, Grant K, Coory M, Kelly H. Detecting the Start of an Influenza Outbreak using Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Charts. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2010;10:37
 
Fraser C, Coory M, Wills R, Pinkerton R. Survival from haematological malignancy in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood in Australia, 1982-2006, Med J Aust 2010;193: 217-221.

Coory M, Jordan S. Likelihood of treatment-effect modification affecting indirect comparisons. Pharmacoeconomics 2010; 28: 723-732.

Protani M, Coory M, Martin J. Effect of obesity on survival from breast cancer. Systematic review and meta-analysis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2010;123:627-635.

Jordan S, Coory M, Webb P. Predictive value of symptoms of ovarian cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2010;102:1599-1601.

Moore S, Valery P, Coory M, Green A. Cancer incidence and mortality in Indigenous Australians in Queensland, 1997 - 2006. Med J Aust 2010;193:590-593.

Coory M. Use of p-values in investigation of cancer clusters. Med J Aust 2010;193: 620-621.

Module 1 Leadership Group. Cancer survival in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK, 1995-2007: the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership. Lancet 2011;377:127-138.

Cook D, Coory M, Webster R. Risk-adjusted exponentially weighted moving average charts for explicit display and monitoring hospital mortality rates. BMJ Qual Saf 2011;20:469-474.

Scott IA, Wills R-A, Coory MD, Butler F, Waters M. Impact of hospital-wide process redesign on patient outcomes: a comparative study of short term versus long term intervention. BMJ Qual Saf 2011;20:539-548.

Eckermann S, Coory M, Willan AR. Choice of metric is critical for indirect comparisons. Pharmacoeconomics 2011;29:87-96.

Thompson B, Coory M, Lumley J. Uptake of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer, Australia, 1999/2000 to 2007/2008. Med J Aust 194:443-447.

Flenady V, Koopmans L, Middleton P, Coory M. A systematic review of potentially modifiable factors for stillbirth. Lancet 2011;377: 1333-1340.

Baade P, Youlden D, Coory M. Gardiner F. Urban rural differences in prostate cancer outcomes in Australia - what has changed? Med J Aust 2011;194:293-296.