Volume 170 Issue 9

Editorials

• The human element of adverse events Charles A Vincent (MJA 1999; 170: 404-405)
• Auditing trauma outcomes: Australia needs a national approach Anthony P Joseph, Simon R Finfer, Michael J Parr (MJA 1999; 170: 405-406)
• What's the use of oral vitamin B₁₂? Jack Metz (MJA 1999; 170: 407-408)
• Cardiovascular disease at the turn of the century Andrew M Tonkin, Stan Bennett (MJA 1999; 170: 408-409)

Research

• An analysis of the causes of adverse events from the Quality in Australian Health Care Study Ross McL Wilson, Bernadette T Harrison, Robert W Gibberd, John D Hamilton (MJA 1999; 170: 411-415)
• Management of severe trauma in intensive care units and surgical wards Graeme J Duke, Peter T Morley, D James Cooper, Francis T McDermott, Stephen M Cordner, Ann B Tremayne (MJA 1999; 170: 416-419)
• The extraction of quality-of-care clinical indicators from State health department administrative databases Jennifer W Majoor, Joseph E Ibrahim, Flavia M Cicuttini, Neil W Boyce, John J McNeil (MJA 1999; 170: 420-424)

Indigenous Health

• Sports Medicine Sudden death due to ischaemic heart disease in young Aboriginal sportsmen in the Northern Territory, 1982-1996
• Mark C Young, Peter A Fricker, Neil J Thomson, Kevin A P Lee (MJA 1999; 170: 425-428) Healthcare
• Impact of improved diagnosis and treatment on prevalence of gonorrhoea and chlamydial infection in remote Aboriginal communities on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands Penny J Miller, Paul J Torzillo, Wayne Hateley (MJA 1999; 170: 429-432)
• Ethics The Bibbulung Gnarneep Project: practical implementation of guidelines on ethics in Indigenous health research
• Sandra J Eades, Anne W Read and the Bibbulung Gnarneep Team (MJA 1999; 170: 433-436) Viewpoint
• Aboriginal health: why is reconciliation necessary? Lisa R Jackson, Jeanette E Ward (MJA 1999; 170: 437-440)

MJA Practice Essentials -- Cardiology

• Palpitations: reassurance or more? Jitu K Vohra (MJA 1999; 170: 442-448)