Volume 202 Issue 1

Student background and clinical education act synergistically

Judith N Hudson BM BS, MSc, PhD · Jennifer A May BMed(Hons), FRACGP, FACRRM

Meeting the challenge of increasing allergy rates through improved models of care and education

Raymond J Mullins PhD, FRACP, FRCPA · Richard K S Loh FRACP

Most Australian clinical guidelines lack reliance on evidence and transparency about authors and any conflicts of interest

Davina Ghersi · Warwick P Anderson

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Planning and community-based palliative care can make it possible for more people to die at home

Hal Swerissen BAppSc, BA(Hons), MAppPsych · Stephen J Duckett PhD, DSc, FASSA

Despite inherent challenges, high-quality antenatal health care is provided in immigration detention centres

Mark Parrish FRACGP, MHA, FRACMA · Anthony Renshaw MRCS(Ed), MFMLM, MD(Res) · Gregory J Duncombe CSCT(FMP), FRANZCOG, CMFM · Paul J Bretz MB BS, FRANZCOG · William J Milford MB BS(Hon), FRANZCOG

How to ensure evidence-based and efficient use of pathology services

Denis Spelman FRACP, FRCPA, MPH

An example of how boycotting the system can achieve result

Robert J Davies MB BS, FRACS

Steps the government can take to achieve a “robust, independent and transparent monitoring” system

Michael H Levy MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM · Corinne Dobson BA(Hons), BSc · Helen Watchirs BA LLB, MPubLaw, PhD · Emily Howie BA LLB(Hons), LLM

The case against immigration detention is irrefutable

on behalf of the J'Accuse Coalition and Doctors for Refugees*

In north-west Tasmania, GP-type ED presentations occurred up to three times as often as in Perth

Penny L Allen BA(Hons), MPH, PhD · Colleen Cheek RN, BSc, MIS · Marielle Ruigrok MB BS, B(Med)Sc, FACEM

Two key performance outcome indicators for measuring rural workforce contribution

Scott J Kitchener MClinEd, MD, FAFPHM

Surgeons who teach anatomy are a valuable, rare resource, providing an essential clinical context to students

Annette W Burgess PhD, MMEd, MEd · George Ramsey-Stewart MD, FRACS

Evidence for the need for advanced care planning and end-of-life treatment goals

Michele Levinson MD, FRACP, FCICM · Amber Mills PhD, BA(Hons)

An increase in admissions suggests a major change in hospital health care delivery

Christopher J O’Callaghan MB BS, FRACP, MD

Increased admissions reflect the increased severity and complexity of patients’ conditions

Jack Chen MB BS, PhD, MBA(Exec) · Kenneth M Hillman MD, FRCA, FCICM

The risk has not been overemphasised

J Elisabeth Wells BSc(Hons), PhD

An updated guideline relevant for all sections of the community

and the extended voting group*

For decades Australia has led the way in large-scale approaches in key areas of prevention

Greg Johnson BPharm, MBA · Jane E Martin BA(Hons), MPH · Amy Timoshanko BAppSci(Hons), PhD

Rates of wound infection and adverse events were no higher when using non-sterile clean boxed gloves compared with sterile gloves

Clare Heal FRACGP, PhD · Shampavi Sriharan MB BS(Hons), DCH · Petra G Buttner PhD, MSc · Deborah Kimber RN, BN, CDE

A snapshot of an evolving health, social and economic burden

Jocasta Ball BBiomedSci(Hons), PhD · David R Thompson PhD · Chantal F Ski BA(Hons), PhD · Melinda J Carrington PhD, PostgradDip(Psych), BA · Tracey Gerber PhD · Simon Stewart PhD

Fewer in-hospital adverse events with highly sensitive troponin tests, but more non-invasive cardiac investigations

Louise Cullen MB BS, FACEM · John K French MB CHB, PHD, MSc · Tom G Briffa PhD · Julie Redfern BSc, BAppSc, PhD · Christopher J K Hammett BHB, MB ChB, MD · David B Brieger MB BS, PhD, FRACP · William A Parsonage FRACP · Jeffrey Lefkovits MB BS, FRACP, FCSANZ · Chris Ellis BM · Carolyn Astley RN, BN, DrPH · Tegwen Eleanor Howell BEcon, MEcSt · John M Elliott MB ChB, PhD, FRACP · Derek P B Chew FRACP, FCSANZ, FACC

A strong positive interaction between rural background and rural clinical school exposure

Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan MB BS, MPH, FRSPH · Diann S Eley PhD, MSc, BSc · Geetha Ranmuthugala MB BS, PhD · Alan B Chater MB BS, FACRRM, FRACGP · Maree R Toombs PhD · Deepak Darshan MB BS, MASc, PhD · Geoffrey C Nicholson PhD, FRACP, FRCP

Full fee-paying students are more likely to choose urban locations and higher-income specialties

Richard B Hays PhD, MD, FRACGP · Kathleen R Lockhart MB BS · Edward Teo MB BS, DipHSc (ParamedCare) · Janie Smith EdD, MPHC · David Waynforth PhD

A warning about the risks of using contrast media in imaging and cardiac catheterisation

Theresa Ly BSc(Adv), MB BS(Hons), MIPH · Nicholas Stewart MB BS, BSc · Stephen Lee AM, DDM, FACD

Governor John Kitzhaber and the place of doctors in politics

John B Best AO, MD BS, PhD, DSc(Hon)

Oxford handbook of public health practice

Jeremy M McAnulty

Examination medicine. A guide to physician training

Timothy Edward Coughlan

Clinical examination: a systematic guide to physical diagnosis

Zachary P O’Brien

Global health law

Joanna R Pozen

To help my mother's eyes

Sarah Blake

Like most Australians under 50, Dr Bronwyn King didn’t pay much attention to the details of her superannuation fund. When she had reason to investigate, what she found changed her life dramatically.

Cate Swannell

Fifty Indigenous high school students were given a hands-on preview of life in health and medicine last month, with a visit to Canberra hosted by the Australian National University’s Rural Medical Society (ANURMS).

Cate Swannell

This calendar will be updated each month. If you have an event you would like to add, please include relevant details in an email to cswannell@mja.com.au

Cate Swannell