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6 March 2006

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From the Editor's desk: Save the stethoscope   Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 201.

 

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 202.

Editorials

 

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Hospital overcrowding: a threat to patient safety?
Peter A Cameron — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 203-204.

 

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New ideas about medical professionalism
Donald H Irvine — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 204-205.

 

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How can we best detect hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer?
Judy A Kirk — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 206-207.

Research

 

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The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments
Peter C Sprivulis, Julie-Ann Da Silva, Ian G Jacobs, Amanda R L Frazer and George A Jelinek — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 208-212.

 

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Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding
Drew B Richardson — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 213-216.

 

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Injury profiles of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in New South Wales
Kathleen F Clapham, Mark R Stevenson and Sing Kai Lo — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 217-220.

 

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Clinical islet transplantation in type 1 diabetes mellitus: results of Australia’s first trial
Philip J O’Connell, Wayne J Hawthorne, D Jane Holmes-Walker, Brian J Nankivell, Jenny E Gunton, Anita T Patel, Stacey N Walters, Henry C C Pleass, Richard D M Allen and Jeremy R Chapman — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 221-225.

Medicine and the Community

 

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Trends in asthma prevalence and population changes in South Australia, 1990–2003
David H Wilson, Robert J Adams, Graeme Tucker, Sarah Appleton, Anne W Taylor and Richard E Ruffin — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 226-229.

Clinical Update

 

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The prevention, detection, and management of breast cancer
Nehmat Houssami, Jack Cuzick and J Michael Dixon — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 230-234.

Viewpoint

 

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Addicted to the good life: harm reduction in chronic disease management
Bradleigh D Hayhow and Michael P Lowe — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 235-237.

Teaching on the Run

 

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Teaching on the run tips 12: planning for learning during clinical attachments
Fiona R Lake and Gerard Ryan — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 238-239.

Lessons from Practice

 

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A pox on the heart: five cases of cardiovascular syphilis
Steven Y C Tong, Haris Haqqani and Alan C Street — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 240-242.

MJA Practice Essentials — Sports Medicine

 

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6. Doctor on the sidelines
Geoffrey M Verrall, Peter D Brukner and Hugh G Seward — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 244-248.

Letters

 

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Cefotetan-induced life-threatening haemolysis
Heather E Robinson, Ellen L Maxwell, H Miles Prince, Mary A O'Reilly and Andrew Jakobovits — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 251.

 

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Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes
Russell Stitz, Michael R Kidd, Liz M Kenny and Anne M Howard — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 251.

 

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Changing patterns of tuberculosis in Far North Queensland
Graham Simpson, Paul Clark and Trevor Knight — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 252.

 

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What exactly is society getting for its research dollars?
Roslyn G Poulos and Anthony B Zwi — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 252-253.

 

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Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection
Keith V Woollard || R Michael Whitby and Mary-Louise McLaws || Paul D R Johnson and M Lindsay Grayson — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 253-254.

 

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Ethics and access to teaching materials in the medical library: the case of the Pernkopf atlas
C Raina MacIntyre, Catherine L King and David Isaacs — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 254-255.

 

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The MP3 surgeon and the opera fan
Richard H Riley || Charles Teo — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 255-256.

 

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Little Boy Blue
Ivan Cher — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 256.

Obituary

 

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Alan Norman Jennings
Millie Mills — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 237.

Corrections

 

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Challenges, conflict and change
David G Pennington — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 237.

 

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Hospital in the home: what next?
Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins — Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 237.

Book Review

 

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The placebo effect and health. Combining science and compassionate care.
reviewed by Edzard Ernst Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 249.

Columns

 

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 250.

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