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6 October 2008

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From the Editor’s Desk: The training tsunami   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 353.

 

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 354.

Editorials

 

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Topical ophthalmic medications: what potential for systemic side effects and interactions with other medications?
Ivan Goldberg, Gregory Moloney and Peter McCluskey — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 356-357.

 

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Subspecialisation in surgery and the continuing challenge of providing emergency surgery services
Ian R Gough — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 358-359.

Research

 

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Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple comorbid conditions
Agnes I Vitry and Ying Zhang — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 360-365.

 

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Helicobacter pylori eradication: a novel therapeutic option in chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Vanaja Sivapathasingam, Michael P Harvey and Robert B Wilson — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 367-370.

Medicine and the Media

 

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Mixed messages and a missed opportunity: Australian news media coverage of Clare Oliver’s campaign against solaria
Ross MacKenzie, Michelle Imison, Simon Chapman and Simon Holding — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 371-374.

 

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What impact would effective solarium regulation have in Australia?
Louisa G Gordon, Nicholas G Hirst, Peter H F Gies and Adèle C Green — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 375-378.

Clinical Practice

 

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Documentation of clinical review and vital signs after major surgery
Forbes McGain, Michelle A Cretikos, Daryl Jones, Susan Van Dyk, Michael D Buist, Helen Opdam, Vincent Pellegrino, Megan S Robertson and Rinaldo Bellomo — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 380-383.

Health Care Reform

 

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Policy is easy, implementation is hard
John Menadue — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 384-385.

Position Statement

 

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Management of bronchiectasis and chronic suppurative lung disease in Indigenous children and adults from rural and remote Australian communities
Anne B Chang, Keith Grimwood, Graeme Maguire, Paul T King, Peter S Morris and Paul J Torzillo — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 386-393.

Review

 

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Quality and consistency of clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee: a descriptive overview of published guidelines
Marie L Misso, Veronica J Pitt, Kay M Jones, Hayley N Barnes, Leon Piterman and Sally E Green — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 394-399.

Lessons from Practice

 

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Misdiagnosis of acute eye diseases by primary health care providers: incidence and implications
Michael O Statham, Anamika Sharma and Anthony R Pane — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 402-404.

 

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A case of melancholic depression induced by β-blocker antiglaucoma agents
Isaac Schweitzer, Kay Maguire and Chee H Ng — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 406-407.

Snapshot

 

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Severe bilateral papilloedema secondary to a large primary brain tumour
Vivek B Pandya, Neil S Sharma, Peter Khong, John Males — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 413.

Book Reviews

 

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Palliative care. A patient-centered approach
Reviewed by Paul A Glare — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 400.

 

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Journeys with the black dog. Inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel
Reviewed by Kelsey L Hegarty — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 400.

 

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Trachoma: a blinding scourge from the bronze age to the twenty-first century
Reviewed by Jill E Keeffe — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 401.

Obituary

 

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Kenneth George Howsam
John R Thomson — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 401.

Correction

 

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Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and re-testing on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school
Barbara Griffin, David W Harding, Ian G Wilson and Neville D Yeomans — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 416.

Letters

 

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Prevalence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory in 2007
Katrina Roper, Claude-Edouard C Michel, Paul M Kelly and Hugh R Taylor — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 409.

 

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A heart-stopping orbital injury
Vivek B Pandya, R Max Conway and Richard Conway — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 410.

 

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Devastating outcome after only 6 hours of contact lens wear
Vivek B Pandya, Alessandra Martins and Shanel Sharma — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 410-411.

 

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Ocular syphilis: are we seeing all there is to see?
Matthew T Kitson, Michelle K Yong and Jennifer F Hoy — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 411.

 

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Wrist guards and wrist and elbow injury in snowboarders
Graham M Slaney, Judith C Finn, Angus Cook and Philip Weinstein — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 412.

 

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Two cases of Streptococcus suis endocarditis in Australian piggery workers
Karina J Kennedy, Assad A Jadeer, Chong W Ong, Sanjaya N Senanayake and Peter J Collignon — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 413.

 

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The Safer Patients Initiative: the UK experience of attempting to improve safe clinical care
Peter J Shirley — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414.

 

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Changes to the University of Sydney medical curriculum
Thomas K F Taylor || Ian R Gough || Kerry J Goulston and R Kim Oates — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414-415.

 

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KFC sponsorship of cricket
Stephen Colagiuri and Ian D Caterson || Peter Young — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 415-416.

Columns

 

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 408.

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