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Volume 191 Issue 10

16 November 2009

From the editor’s desk

Daylight saving: a dark side?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 522 Free

Editorials

The role of general practitioners in managing and treating hepatitis C

Margaret E Hellard and Yung-Hsuan J Wang

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 523-524

Building health literacy in Australia

Don Nutbeam

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 525-526

Optimising the therapeutic use of oxygen in Australia

Christine F McDonald and Alan J Crockett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 526-527

Conference report

Grasping the initiative in health policy research and reform

James Gillespie, Beverley Essue, Stephen R Leeder and Anne Marie T Thow

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 528-529

Research

Risks associated with low functional health literacy in an Australian population

Robert J Adams, Sarah L Appleton, Catherine L Hill, Mark Dodd, Christopher Findlay and David H Wilson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 530-534 Free

Screening for hepatitis C virus infection in methadone-maintained mothers and their infants

Anthony J W Liu,*, Ethan I An,* , Henry G Murray, Emma Tetstall, Marcel J Leroi and Ralph K H Nanan

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 535-538 Free

Treatment disparities and effect on late mortality in patients with diabetes presenting with acute myocardial infarction: observations from the ACACIA registry

Joseph Hung, David B Brieger, John V Amerena, Steven G Coverdale, James M Rankin, Carolyn M Astley, Ashish Soman and Derek P Chew

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 539-543 Free

A classification of hospital-acquired diagnoses for use with routine hospital data

Terri J Jackson, Jude L Michel, Rosemary F Roberts, Christine M Jorm and John G Wakefield

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 544-548 Free

Health care

Variability in the rate of prescription and cost of domiciliary oxygen therapy in Australia

John G Serginson, Ian A Yang, John G Armstrong, David M Cooper, Anthony M Matthiesson, Stephen C Morrison, Judy M Gair, Barbara Cooper and Paul V Zimmerman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 549-553 Free

Tobacco use and measuring nicotine dependence among urban Indigenous pregnant women

Kathryn S Panaretto, Melvina R Mitchell, Lynette Anderson, Conor Gilligan, Petra Buettner, Sarah L Larkins and Sandra Eades

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 554-557 Free

Clinical update

Bridging the communication gap between public and private radiology services

Turab Chakera, Yusuf Nagree, Swithin Song and Philip Jones

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 558-560 Free

Viewpoint

Whole-of-hospital response to admission access block: the need for a clinical revolution

E Haydn Walters and David J Dawson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 561-563 Free

Notable cases

“Paradoxical” immune-mediated reactions to Mycobacterium ulcerans during antibiotic treatment: a result of treatment success, not failure

Daniel P O’Brien, Michael E Robson, Peter P Callan and Anthony H McDonald

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 564-566 Free

Lessons from practice

A disastrous sequela of a missed ureteric stent

Peng-Kung Yang, Dinesh Agarwal and Niall Corcoran

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 567-568 Free

Letters

Rates of hospitalisation for acute respiratory illness and the emergence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in the Hunter New England Area Health Service

Fatimah S Dawood, Craig B Dalton, David N Durrheim and Kirsty G Hope

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 573-574

Timing of bronchiolitis hospitalisations and respiratory syncytial virus immunoprophylaxis in non-metropolitan Western Australia

Hannah C Moore, Anthony D Keil, Peter C Richmond and Deborah Lehmann

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 574 Free

Impact of Australian celebrity diagnoses on prostate cancer screening

David P Smith, Mark S Clements, Melanie A Wakefield and Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 574-575

Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?

Luke R E Bereznicki, Leanne Stafford, Ella C Jeffrey, Gregory M Peterson and Shane L Jackson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 575-577

Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?

Judy A Lowthian, Basia O Diug, Sue M Evans, Ellen L Maxwell, Alison M Street, Leon Piterman and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 575-577

Who is responsible for the care of patients treated with warfarin therapy?

John C Roberts

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 575-577

Stop taking warfarin? No way!

James A Fink

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 577-578

Stop taking warfarin? No way!

Amit K Verma and Ajai K Verma

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 577-578

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Michael D Coory, Guan T Koh, Vicki Flenady and Maarten Kamp

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 578-580

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Daniel C Chambers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 578-580

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Nick Evans, Girvan Malcolm and Adrienne Gordon

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 578-580

Adverse outcomes of labour in public and private hospitals in Australia

Sally K Tracy, Alec W Welsh, Hannah G Dahlen and Mark B Tracy

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 578-580

Timing of transfer for pregnant women from Queensland Cape York communities to Cairns for birthing

John W Cox

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 580-581 Free

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003

Emma E Kowal

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 581-582 Free

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003

Yuejen Zhao, Steve Guthridge, Shu Q Li and Christine Connors

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 581-582 Free

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003

Karen Andreasyan and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 581-582 Free

Close the Gap: ask the experts

Siaw-Teng Liaw

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 582-583 Free

Close the Gap: ask the experts

Sophie Couzos and Dea D Thiele

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 582-583 Free

Why health reform?

George Larcos

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 583-584

Corrections

General Practice Super Clinics — how will they meet their educational objectives?

Alistair W Vickery, Jennifer Dodd and Jon D Emery

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 393-395

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 1 Free

Obituary

Charles Ronald Lucas MB BS, FRACP

Ian D Gust, Edwina J Wright and Suzanne M Crowe

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 560 Free

Book reviews

Ethics and law revisited

Bernadette M Tobin

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 572

Preventing cardiovascular disease

Ian R Hamilton-Craig

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 572

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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