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Volume 191 Issue 5

7 September 2009

From the editor’s desk

Confronting conflict of interest

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 241 Free

In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 242 Free

Editorials

From medical school to medical practice: a national tracking system to underpin planning for a sustainable medical workforce in Australasia

John S Humphreys, David Prideaux, Justin J Beilby and Nicholas J Glasgow

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 244-245

Child protection and the health professional: mandatory responding is our duty

Peter M Winterton

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 246-247

Translational research and rational therapy: structural barriers in Australia

Richard M Fox

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 247-248

Research

An expert-supported monitoring system for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in general practice: results of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Lisette van den Bemt, Tjard R J Schermer, Ivo J M Smeele, Leandra J M Boonman-de Winter, Ton van Boxem, Joke Denis, Joke G Grootens-Stekelenburg, Richard P T M Grol and Chris van Weel

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 249-254 Free

Is uptake of genetic testing for colorectal cancer influenced by knowledge of insurance implications?

Louise A Keogh, Christine M van Vliet, David M Studdert, Judith A Maskiell, Finlay A Macrae, D James St John, Clara L Gaff, Mary Anne Young, Melissa C Southey, Graham G Giles, Doreen A Rosenthal, John L Hopper and Mark A Jenkins

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 255-258 Free

Adequacy of consent documentation in a specialty surgical unit: time for community debate?

Mark T Siddins, Elizabeth M Klinken and Lee R Vocale

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 259-262 Free

Systematic review

Is reflexology an effective intervention? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Edzard Ernst

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 263-266 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The community’s attitude towards swine flu and pandemic influenza

Holly Seale, Mary-Louise McLaws, Anita E Heywood, Kirsten F Ward, Chris P Lowbridge, Debbie Van, Jan Gralton and C Raina MacIntyre

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 267-269 Free

Health care reform

Why health reform?

Steven J Lewis and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 270-272 Free

Viewpoint

Winds of change: growing demands for transparency in the relationship between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry

Philip B Mitchell

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 273-275 Free

For debate

A national approach to perinatal mental health in Australia: exercising caution in the roll-out of a public health initiative

Jane S Yelland, Georgina A Sutherland, Jan L Wiebe and Stephanie J Brown

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 276-279 Free

Research enterprise

A case study evaluation of ethics review systems for multicentre clinical trials

Sian C Hicks, Rebecca E James, Nicole Wong, Niall C Tebbutt and Kate Wilson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 280-282 Free

Diagnostic dilemmas

Acute psychiatric illness in a young woman: an unusual form of encephalitis

Kaitlyn L Parratt, Martin Allan, Simon J G Lewis, Josep Dalmau, Gabor M Halmagyi and Judith M Spies

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 284-286

Letters

Australia’s influenza containment plan and the swine flu epidemic in Victoria

Michael G Catton, Julian D Druce and Chris J Birch

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 288

A pandemic problem with public transport

Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 288-289

First clinical case of a locally acquired carbapenem-resistant VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Australia

John Merlino, Harold W Stokes, Elaine Y-L Cheong and Thomas Gottlieb

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 289

Melioidosis in south-eastern Queensland

Roger W Guard, Peter J Morero, Win Yi and Maureen J Mackay

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 290

Severe Queensland tick typhus complicated by diabetes in south-eastern Queensland

Theo F Birch and Michael Muller

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 290-291

Glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes after provision of public hospital-funded insulin pumps

Ken Y Thong, P Gerry Fegan and Bu B Yeap

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 291

Access block: it’s all about available beds

Charles P Denaro

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 292

Interventions to circumvent intensive care access block: a retrospective 2-year study across metropolitan Melbourne

Helen E Stark, Chris N Maxwell and Robert W Gibberd

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 292

Access block can be managed

Antony Nocera

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 292-293

Should the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee extend the range of free nicotine replacement therapies available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

Jan A Robertson, David J MacLaren and Alan R Clough

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 293 Free

Poor outcomes among gastrostomy-fed patients in the community

William H Watt, Kate A Needham, Peter L Talbot, Janet P Bell and Glen J Pang

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 294

Anxiety and depression among long-term survivors of cancer in Australia: results of a population-based survey

Jeremy W Couper, Anthony W Love, Annabel C Pollard and Sidney Bloch

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 294-295

Anxiety and depression among long-term survivors of cancer in Australia: results of a population-based survey

Allison W Boyes, Afaf Girgis, Alison C Zucca and Christophe Lecathelinais

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 294-295

Bicycling injuries and mortality in Victoria, 2001–2006

Malcolm J Wardlaw

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 295-296

Bicycling injuries and mortality in Victoria, 2001–2006

Antonina A Mikocka-Walus, Francis T McDermott and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 295-296

Snapshot

Three synchronous tumours identified by FDG-PET/CT

Paul M Leong, Michael Lin and Allan R Fowler

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 275 Free

Corrections

Retirement intentions of general practitioners aged 45–65 years

Thomas D Brett, Diane Arnold-Reed, Diane A Hince, Ian K Wood and Robert G Moorhead

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 296

Improving general practice consultations for older people with asthma: a cluster randomised control trial

Dianne P Goeman, Lena A Sanci, Simon L Scharf, Michael Bailey, Robyn E O’Hehir, Christine R Jenkins and Jo A Douglass

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 296

Evolution of a house: Darwin’s link to Pambula

George D Repin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 296

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 287