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Volume 189 Issue 4

18 August 2008

From the editor’s desk

Covert colonialism

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 185 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 186 Free

Editorials

Alcohol sales data are essential for good public policies towards alcohol

Wayne D Hall, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Peter H N d’Abbs and Robin G W Room

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 188-189

The Peoples-uni: public health education for all

Richard F Heller

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 189-190

Cancer adds further urgency to prioritising obesity control

Ian N Olver and Paul B Grogan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 191-192

Research

Development and validation of fall risk screening tools for use in residential aged care facilities

Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline C T Close, Hylton B Menz, Robert G Cumming, Ian D Cameron, Philip N Sambrook, Lyn M March and Stephen R Lord

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 193-196 Free

Incidence of bariatric surgery and postoperative outcomes: a population-based analysis in Western Australia

Fiona J Smith, C D’Arcy J Holman, Rachael E Moorin and David R Fletcher

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 198-202 Free

Public health

Strongyloidiasis in personnel of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)

David A Pattison and Richard Speare

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 203-206 Free

Research enterprise

Financial disclosure and clinical research: what is important to participants?

Anastasia Hutchinson and Abe R Rubinfeld

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 207-209 Free

Medicine In the Community

Public perceptions of Australia’s doctors, hospitals and health care systems

Elizabeth A Hardie and Christine R Critchley

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 210-214 Free

How do Australian patients rate their general practitioner? A descriptive study using the General Practice Assessment Questionnaire

Maria Potiriadis, Patty Chondros, Gail Gilchrist, Kelsey Hegarty, Grant Blashki and Jane M Gunn

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 215-219 Free

Health care reform

Fixing the problems that beset the Australian hospital system

John M Dwyer

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 220-221

Primary health care reform: equity is the key

Michael R Kidd, Ian T Watts and Deborah C Saltman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 221-222

For debate

Why we need a national registry in interventional cardiology

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 223-227 Free

Notable cases

Very late stent thrombosis after discontinuation of clopidogrel therapy

Rohit Barthwal and Brian A Herman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 229-230 Free

Book review

In-depth dialysis therapy

Francesco L Ierino

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 206

Obituary

David Norrie Fleming Leake OAM, MB BS, DLO

Peter R C Wakeford and Douglas J Harbison

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 228 Free

Snapshot

Bilateral renal halo sign in acute pancreatitis

Ganesh Athappan, Venkatesh K Ariyamuthu and Virusankulam K Rajamani

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 228 Free

Letters

Effect of community consultation on recruitment of Indigenous women to a human papillomavirus prevalence study

Christine M Read, Deborah J Bateson and Christine J Ohrin

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 233 Free

Colorectal cancer screening: ensuring benefits outweigh the risks

Suzanne Kosmider, Kathryn M Field, Finlay A Macrae and Peter Gibbs

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 233-234

Comparison of crystalline methamphetamine (“ice”) users and other patients with toxicology-related problems presenting to a hospital emergency department

Paul I Dargan and David M Wood

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234

Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance

David W Harding and Ian G Wilson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234-235

Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance

David Wilkinson, Jianzhen Zhang, Gerard J Byrne, Malcolm H Parker and Raymond F Peterson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234-235

Selecting medical students

Nicholas Jefferson-Lenskyj

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 235-236

Selecting medical students

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 235-236

Selecting medical students

David A Powis

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 235-236

Encouraging general practitioners to train medical students

Andrew A Beveridge

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 236

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Niyi Awofeso

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?

Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237

Teenage smoking in pregnancy and birthweight: a population study, 2001–2004

Elizabeth M Peadon, Carol I Bower and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237-238

Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign

Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 238-240

Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign

George Larcos

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 238-240

Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign

Caroline A Brand, Peter A Cameron, Peter B Greenberg and Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 238-240

Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign

Tony J O’Connell, David I Ben-Tovim, Brian C McCaughan, Michael G Szwarcbord and Katherine M McGrath

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 238-240

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 232