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Research Biography
Dr Rachel Milte is an Matthew Flinders Senior Research Fellow in the Health and Social Care Economics Group, College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She also holds an adjunct Research Fellow position at University of South Australia.
With training in health, research methodology and economics, Dr Milte has established a career in health economics with particular strength and focus on understanding the €˜value' to consumers of health and aged care services. Her contributions to the field so far have included developing a mixed methods approach incorporating qualitative and discrete choice experiments (DCE) to understand the preferences of older adults and their informal carers for aged care and health services.
Additionally, Dr Milte regularly undertake economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, particularly focusing on interventions aiming to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of specialised patient populations such as rehabilitation patients with complex needs, frail older adults, adults living with severe mental illness, and indigenous Australians living with dementia. Her current work includes leading the economic evaluations for multiple NHMRC funded research projects.
Research Interests
Aged care
Nutrition and dietary interventions for older adults
Restorative models of care for older adults (including those with cognitive impairment)
Health care costs and economic evaluation of healthcare interventions
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Improving physical activity and screen time in Outside School Hours Care through evidence-based guidelines: an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial
Milte, R., Maher, C., Lewis, L., Wolfenden, L., Christian, H., Okely, T., Rosenkranz, R., Esterman, A., Cliff, D., Curtis, R., Stanley, R., Bogomolova, S., Richardson, M., Virgara, R. & Nolland, M.
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Are Australians willing to pay more tax to support wage increases for aged care workers? Findings from a national survey
Crocker, M., Milte, R., Duff, G., Lawless, M., Corlis, M. & Ratcliffe, J., 17 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Australasian Journal on Ageing. 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing the construct validity of the Quality-of-Life-Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC): an aged care-specific quality-of-life measure
Khadka, J., Ratcliffe, J., Hutchinson, C., Cleland, J., Mulhern, B., Lancsar, E. & Milte, R., Sep 2022, In: Quality of Life Research. 31, 9, p. 2849-2865 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creating ‘Partnership in iSupport program’ to optimise family carers’ impact on dementia care: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Xiao, L., Yu, Y., Ratcliffe, J., Milte, R., Meyer, C., Chapman, M., Chen, L., Ullah, S., Kitson, A., De Andrade, A. Q., Beattie, E., Brodaty, H., McKechnie, S., Low, L-F., Nguyen, T. A., Whitehead, C., Brijnath, B., Sinclair, R. & Voss, D., 10 Jun 2022, In: BMC Health Services Research. 22, 1, 12 p., 762.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Developing and implementing a new methodology to test the affordability of currently popular weight loss diet meal plans and healthy eating principles
Bracci, E. L., Milte, R., Keogh, J. B. & Murphy, K. J., 6 Jan 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 10 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Do we agree or disagree? A systematic review of the application of preference-based instruments in self and proxy reporting of quality of life in older people
Hutchinson, C., Worley, A., Khadka, J., Milte, R., Cleland, J. & Ratcliffe, J., Jul 2022, In: Social Science and Medicine. 305, 13 p., 115046.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review