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Volume 218 Issue 1

16 January 2023

Perspectives

Supporting Indigenous health equity strategic planning: a Queensland perspective

Maree R Toombs, Caitlin Curtis and Claire E Brolan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 5-8 Open Access

Access to voluntary assisted dying in Australia requires fair remuneration for medical practitioners

Casey M Haining, Lindy Willmott, Simon Towler and Ben P White

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 8-10 Open Access

Medical education

DANGER: what clinicians need to know about aggressive head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Richard Tjahjono, Hubert TH Low, Jenny Lee, Deshan F Sebaratnam, Ruta Gupta, Michael J Veness, Jonathan Clark and Carsten E Palme

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 11-15

Lessons from practice

An important case of atypical pneumonia

Arvind Yerramilli, Michelle Sam, Aadith Ashok and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 16-17

Clinical skills

Diagnostic and therapeutic abdominal paracentesis

John J Harvey, Ralley Prentice and Jacob George

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 18-21 Open Access

Editorials

Welcoming the new MJA Editor‐in‐Chief, and the top ten original research articles in the MJA in 2022

Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 22-24 Free

Learning from the past to prepare for the future

Douglas Johnson and Megan Anne Rees

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 25-26 Free

Research

Increasing screening for atrial fibrillation in general practice: the Atrial Fibrillation Self‐Screening, Management And guideline‐Recommended Therapy (AF Self‐SMART) study

Katrina Giskes, Nicole Lowres, Jessica Orchard, JiaLin Li, Kirsty McKenzie, Charlotte Mary Hespe and Ben Freedman

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 27-32 Open Access

Associations between COVID‐19 and hospitalisation with respiratory and non‐respiratory conditions: a record linkage study

Stacey L Rowe, Karin Leder, Kylie Dyson, Lalitha Sundaresan, Dennis Wollersheim, Brigid Lynch, Ifrah Abdullahi, Benjamin C Cowie, Nicola Stephens, Terence M Nolan, Sheena G Sullivan, Brett Sutton and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 33-39 Open Access

Narrative review

The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain

Lachlan Evans, Thomas O’Donohoe, Andrew Morokoff and Katharine Drummond

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 40-45 Open Access

Letters

Health care in the metaverse

Caitlin Curtis and Claire E Brolan

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 46-46 Open Access

Smoking cessation on discharge summaries

Freddy Sitas, Ben Harris‐Roxas, Sarah L White, Fiona A Haigh, Margo L Barr and Mark F Harris

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 46-46 Open Access

Voluntary assisted dying: estimating life expectancy to determine eligibility

Christopher J Ryan, Ben P White and Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 47-47 Open Access

Voluntary assisted dying: estimating life expectancy to determine eligibility

Sharon H Nahm, Martin R Stockler and Belinda E Kiely

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 48-48 Open Access