Article Types
Letters
Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?
The benefits and challenges of shared decision making
Debora Picone
Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?
The benefits and challenges of shared decision making
Michele Levinson
Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?
In reply: The benefits and challenges of shared decision making
Tammy C Hoffmann · Christopher B Del Mar
Self-regulation of autologous cell therapies
An effective code of practice must require medical treatment by specialist practitioners in the condition being treated
Graham Vesey
Self-regulation of autologous cell therapies
In reply: It is in the interest of all to limit the risks of this unregulated industry
Bernard E Tuch · Dominic Wall
The NSW Safe Sedation Project
Training for non-anaesthetists who care for sedated patients
Joanna R Sutherland · Ellen Rawstron · Christopher Ball
Do death certificates accurately record deaths due to bloodstream infection?
The contribution of bloodstream infections to deaths in Australia may be underestimated
Christopher S Heather · Hong Foo · Iain B Gosbell
Survival, mortality and morbidity outcomes after oesophagogastric cancer surgery in New South Wales, 2001–2008
Does institutional volume matter?
Margaret Lee · Peter Gibbs
Survival, mortality and morbidity outcomes after oesophagogastric cancer surgery in New South Wales, 2001–2008
In reply: Does institutional volume matter?
Nicola Creighton · Ross C Smith · David C Currow
Evaluating the costs and benefits of using combination therapies
Combination therapies can help overcome treatment inertia and poor adherence in chronic disease management
Anthony Rodgers · Tracey-Lea Laba · Stephen Jan
The cost-effectiveness of primary care for Indigenous Australians with diabetes living in remote Northern Territory communities
For a realistic analysis, all primary care use and all known associations must be taken into account
David J Whyatt · Alistair Vickery · Matthew Yap
The cost-effectiveness of primary care for Indigenous Australians with diabetes living in remote Northern Territory communities
In reply: Social factors may, in part, explain the outcomes
Susan L Thomas
The hidden issues of anticipatory medications in community palliative care
Keeping the doctor’s bag relevant to needs
Gerard F Gill
Abortion and breast cancer risk for Australian women
Research consistently finds there is no association between abortion and risk of breast cancer
Kelly-Anne Phillips · Fiona J Bruinsma · Roger L Milne
New TGA warning label for use of NSAIDs in fluid-depleted children
The recent TGA warning that NSAIDs can cause harm in fluid-depleted kids should also apply to adults at risk
Ronald P Batagol
Will current health reforms in south and east Asia improve equity?
Dietary changes that follow economic development will increase the risks of non-communicable disease among the poor
Rohan Jayasuriya
Will current health reforms in south and east Asia improve equity?
In reply: Attention to non-communicable diseases is only one part of improving health equity
David B Hipgrave · Krishna P Hort
Inappropriate use of dual energy absorptiometry body composition estimation
DXA body composition estimation is being inappropriately used in weight loss and exercise programs
Nicholas A Pocock · Weiwen Chen
Multiple mini interview performance of repeat applicants to medical school admission
Practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect on multiple mini interview performance
Malathi Raghavan · Bruce D Martin
Time to end the ban on HIV-positive proceduralists and dentists
A lack of demonstrable harms means HIV professionals should be allowed to practise
Sean R Atkinson
Professor Bruce Hall and the ABC
An expression of support for Bruce Hall and his significant contributions to the field of transplantation
Jeremy R Chapman · Geoffrey W McCaughan · Philip J O’Connell
Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government
Was mental health reform ever really “on track”?
Paul Dignam
Getting mental health reform back on track: a leadership challenge for the new Australian Government
In reply: More work is needed, but there is sufficient evidence for action now
Ian B Hickie · Patrick D McGorry · Helen Christensen
A land half won: pain and the modern world
Underfunding of pain research limits evidence for effective therapies
Michael J Cousins · Lesley Brydon
A land half won: pain and the modern world
In reply: Patients need help confronting reality after treatment “failures”
Michael A Ashby
