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Volume 224 Issue 2

February 2026

Editor's choice

Publishing Clinical Guidance in the MJA: Supporting the Dissemination of Best Practice

Elizabeth Zuccala

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70157

Editorial

Associations Between Hospital Occupancy, Emergency Department Function and Ambulance Delays, With Modelled Mitigation Strategies: Evidence From Acute Queensland Hospitals

David Mountain

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70148

Perspective

Integrating Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring Into Cardiovascular Prevention in Australia

Shaun Khanna, Tej Dugal, Jason Kaplan, Aditya Bhat

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70144

Hearing Justice Through a Stethoscope: Advocacy, Climate Change and Medicine's Upstream Responsibilities

Francis Nona, Nina Lansbury, Rowena Maguire, Britta Wigginton

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70147

National Screening, National Responsibility: Turning Promise Into Progress for Lung Cancer Care

Fraser J. Brims

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70146

Guideline summary

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian Clinical Guideline for Diagnosing and Managing Acute Coronary Syndromes 2025

David B. Brieger, Louise A. Cullen, Tom G. Briffa, Sarah Zaman, Ian A. Scott, Cynthia Papendick, Elaine Ho, Victoria Leitch, Dannii Dougherty, Garry Jennings

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70127

Narrative Review

Population-Based Melanoma Screening Using Integrated Risk Scores in Australia: A Narrative Review to Determine Readiness

Courtney K. Wallingford, Chloe Mighton, Tamara Dawson, Anne Cust, H. Peter Soyer, Yvonne Bombard, Tatiane Yanes, Aideen McInerney-Leo

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70133

Research

The Association Between Access Block And Ambulance Ramping, And The Impact of COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study of 25 Queensland Hospitals

Hwan-Jin Yoon, Justin Boyle, Ibrahima Diouf, Emma Bosley, Andrew Staib, Vahid Riahi, Hamed Hassanzadeh, Mahnaz Samadbeik, Clair Sullivan, Sankalp Khanna, James F. Lind

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70141

The Impact of Hospital Bed Occupancy on Patient Flow and Emergency Department Access: A 25-Hospital Cohort Study

Vahid Riahi, Justin Boyle, Hwan-Jin Yoon, Hamed Hassanzadeh, Ibrahima Diouf, Sankalp Khanna, Andrew Staib, Mahnaz Samadbeik, Clair Sullivan, Emma Bosley, James F. Lind

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70143

Strategies for Reducing Access Block and Waiting Time for Patients Seeking Emergency Hospital Care: Results of a Ward-Level Discrete Event Simulation at Queensland's Largest Public Hospitals

Hamed Hassanzadeh, Justin Boyle, Vahid Riahi, Hwan-Jin Yoon, Ibrahima Diouf, Sankalp Khanna, Clair Sullivan, Andrew Staib, Emma Bosley, Mahnaz Samadbeik, James F. Lind

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70142

Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Childhood and Adolescent Asthma Hospitalisations in Queensland, Australia: A 20-Year Ecological Study Across Climate Zones

Jialu Wang, Javier Cortes-Ramirez, Janet Davies, Wenbiao Hu

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70145

Interval Cancer Characteristics, Staging and Survival Among National Bowel Cancer Screening Program Participants, Western Australia, 2018: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study

Shantelle J. Smith, Rachael Moorin, Dagmawi Tadesse, Kathleen O'Connor, Thi Ninh Ha

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70138

Scoping review

The Extent and Nature of Lived Experience Engagement in the Development of Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines, 2014–2025: A Scoping Review

Anneliese Synnot, Naomi MacPherson, Thomas Benning, Bernard Tso, Chuyue Wang, Antonia Arfaras, Brian A. Beh, Vanessa Cullen, Jessica D'Lima, Tony Finneran, David C. Fry, Michelle King, Alexander Meredith, Adrian O'Malley, Joanne Muller, Tari Turner, Samantha P. Chakraborty

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70132

Letter to the editor

In the Wake of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy 2025–2035: Suicide Prevention in Type 1 Diabetes

Rigel Paciente, Keely Bebbington, Alix Woolard, Helen Milroy

doi: 10.5694/mja2.70156