Volume 177, Issue 2 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue, 15 July 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 58 Free

GP Research

General practice research: in the big league at last?

Mabel Chew and Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 60-61 Free

General practice research networks: gateway to primary care evidence

Chris van Weel

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 62-63 Free

Should Australia develop primary care research networks?

Jane M Gunn

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 63-66 Free

An international taxonomy for errors in general practice: a pilot study

Meredith A B Makeham, Mary County, Michael R Kidd and Susan M Dovey

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 68-72 Free

General practice research: attitudes and involvement of Queensland general practitioners

Deborah A Askew, Alexandra M Clavarino, Paul P Glasziou and Christopher B Del Mar

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 74-77 Free

GP Workforce

The inverse care law is alive and well in general practice

John F O'Dea and Roger J Kilham

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 78-79

The inverse care law revisited: impact of disadvantaged location on accessing longer GP consultation times

John S Furler, Patty Chondros, Doris Y L Young, Elizabeth Harris, P Gawaine Powell Davies and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 80-83 Free

Residential aged care and general practice: workforce demographic trends, 1984–2000

Gregory A Lewis and Robert W Pegram

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 84-86 Free

The balancing act: key issues in the lives of women general practitioners in Australia

Margaret R Kilmartin, Christopher J Newell and Martin A Line

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 87-89 Free

General practice corporatisation: the half-time score

Paul D Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 90-92

Medical workforce data: who do we believe?

Richard B Hays

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 92

GP in Action

Case conferences in general practice: time for a rethink?

Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 93-94

General practitioner attitudes to case conferences: how can we increase participation and effectiveness?

Geoffrey K Mitchell, Christopher B Del Mar, Alexandra M Clavarino, Inge C de Jong and Rosemary Kennedy

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 95-97 Free

A comparison of general practice encounters with patients from English-speaking and non-English-speaking backgrounds

Stephanie A Knox and Helena Britt

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 98-101 Free

Addiction medicine

Alcohol-related problems in Australia: is there a role for general practice?

Chris Holmwood

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 102-103

New pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence

Robert Graham, Alex D Wodak and Greg Whelan

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 103-107

Street GP

Raymond C Seidler

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 108

GP Outback

Surgical services and referrals in rural and remote Australia

Anthony J Green

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 110-111

Where there is no surgeon: the effect of specialist proximity on general practitioners' referral rates

Russell L Gruen, Ross S Bailie, Stephanie Knox and Helena Britt

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 111-115 Free

Reflections on a year in the outback

Susan M Wearne

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 117-118

The Teepokana Paradigm: a future for general practice and primary healthcare?

Edi Albert

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 119-120

Columns

General practice research

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 72

The general practitioner

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 79

The general practitioner and his reading

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (2): 107