eMJA: Contents - 4 January 2010

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Contents

4 January 2010

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In This Issue . . . Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 2.

Editorials

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Why we need tobacco sales data for good tobacco control
Coral E Gartner, Simon F Chapman, Wayne D Hall and Melanie A Wakefield — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 3-4.

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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction — coming to terms with an oxymoron
Peter S MacDonald — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 4-5.

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Lifelong consequences of poor fetal growth
Susan M Sayers and Gurmeet R Singh — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 5-6.

Postcard from the US

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Health care reform in the United States: an opportunity for primary care?
Nicholas A Zwar — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 8.

Research

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Caveat anicula! Beware of quiet little old ladies: Demographic features, pharmacotherapy, readmissions and survival in a 10-year cohort of patients with heart failure and preserved systolic function
Dennis T Wong, Robyn A Clark, Benjamin K Dundon, Andrew Philpott, Payman Molaee and Sepehr Shakib — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 9-13.

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Birthweight and natural deaths in a remote Australian Aboriginal community
Wendy E Hoy and Jennifer L Nicol — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 14-19.

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Role of general practitioners in managing age-related hearing loss
Julie M Schneider, Bamini Gopinath, Catherine M McMahon, Helena C Britt, Christopher M Harrison, Tim Usherwood, Stephen R Leeder and Paul Mitchell — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 20-23.

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Single-dose azithromycin versus seven days of amoxycillin in the treatment of acute otitis media in Aboriginal children (AATAAC): a double blind, randomised controlled trial
Peter S Morris, Gaudencio Gadil, Gabrielle B McCallum, Cate A Wilson, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Paul Torzillo and Amanda J Leach — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 24-29.

Health Care

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A new model for neurology care in the emergency department
Rebekah M Ahmed, Timothy Green, Gabor M Halmagyi and Simon J G Lewis — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 30-32.

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

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Acceptance of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination by the Australian public
Keith Eastwood, David N Durrheim, Alison Jones and Michelle Butler — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 33-36.

Review

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Evidence-based guidelines for the management of hip fractures in older persons: an update
Jenson C S Mak, Ian D Cameron and Lyn M March — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 37-41.

Viewpoint

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Myths of ideal hospital occupancy
Christopher A Bain, Peter G Taylor, Geoff McDonnell and Andrew Georgiou — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 42-43.

Clinical Update

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High-functioning pervasive developmental disorders in adults
Sarah J Abrahamson, Peter G Enticott and Bruce J Tonge — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 44-48.

Lessons from Practice

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Spleen registry may help reduce the incidence of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in Victoria
Justin T Denholm, Penelope A Jones, Denis W Spelman, Paul U Cameron and Ian J Woolley — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 49-50.

Letters

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Persistent unilateral right diaphragmatic palsy following liver transplantation
H S Subhash, John W C Chen, Libby John, Jeffery J Bowden, Dimitar Sajkov and Peter Frith — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52.

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Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and suicidal ideation: findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Jane E Pirkis, Philip M Burgess, Amy K Johnston and Harvey A Whiteford — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 53.

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The Australian Medical Council draft code of professional conduct: good practice or creeping authoritarianism?
Richard A Smallwood — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 53-54.

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Use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients with osteoporosis in Australia
Jenson C S Mak and Steven Faux — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 54-55.

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“Through a glass, darkly”: the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome
Dawn E DeWitt, Ravi Bhat and Stephanie Ward — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 55.

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Building capacity in medical education research in Australia
Ian G Wilson on behalf of the ANZAME Committee of Management — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 55-56.

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General practice: survival by adaptation
Peter C Arnold — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 56.

Obituary

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Joffre Bartholomew Cowle
James B Roche — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 29.

Book Review

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Medical toxicology of natural substances. Foods, fungi, medicinal herbs, plants and venomous animals.
George A Jelinek — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 43.

Correction

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Correction: Invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australia: emergence of serotype 19A
Carolien M Giele, Anthony D Keil, Deborah Lehmann and Paul G Van Buynder — Med J Aust 2010; 192 (1): 52.

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