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Perspectives
Public health and economic perspectives on acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
With the care costs for the thousands of new cases predicted to occur by 2031, can we afford “business as usual”?
Jeffrey Cannon · Dawn C Bessarab · Rosemary Wyber · Judith M Katzenellenbogen
Regulating voluntary assisted dying in Australia: some insights from the Netherlands
Over two decades of Dutch experience can inform deliberations about the nature of a regulatory framework in Australian jurisdictions
Bregje Onwuteaka‐Philipsen · Lindy Willmott · Ben P White
Concussion risk and suicide prevention: balancing the risks and benefits of youth sport
Young people who play sport are exposed to a range of neurological, emotional and developmental benefits but are also at risk of injuries that can threaten these
Amanda Clacy · Daniel F Hermens · Kathryn Broadhouse · Jim Lagopoulos
Adolescent immunisation in young people with disabilities in Australia
More research is needed to understand the barriers to optimal adolescent immunisation for students with disabilities
Jenny O'Neill · Fiona Newall · Giuliana Antolovich · Sally Lima · Margie H Danchin
Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into responses to humanitarian crises
The medical and moral imperative that palliative care be integrated into standard responses to humanitarian crises can be fulfilled through basic training and an essential set of medicines, equipment, social supports and protocols
Eric L Krakauer · Bethany‐Rose Daubman · Tammam Aloudat
Machine learning in clinical practice: prospects and pitfalls
Machine learning has huge potential to enhance clinical decision making, but there are still many limitations
Ian A Scott · David Cook · Enrico W Coiera · Brent Richards
The future of academic publishing: disruption, opportunity and a new ecosystem
Academic publishing is on an irreversible path to change
Virginia Barbour
Primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators in non‐ischaemic cardiomyopathy: challenging the Australian heart failure guidelines
The 2018 Australian guidelines’ recommendations require further clarifications to ensure eligible patients will receive appropriate ICD therapy
Dennis H Lau · Jonathan M Kalman · Prashanthan Sanders
Controversies in medicine: redefining the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes
Diagnosis of autoimmune ?-cell disorder before end-stage clinical type 1 diabetes is a key step towards the prevention of this disease
Jennifer J Couper · Leonard C Harrison
Antibiotic use in animals and humans in Australia
Developing strategies to reduce both the transmission of important pathogens and antimicrobial resistance is of paramount importance
Freya Langham · Allen C Cheng
Poliomyelitis outbreak in Papua New Guinea: health system and health security implications for PNG and Australia
To help PNG prevent and respond to infectious disease outbreaks of domestic and international concern, Australia must continue to provide high level technical and financial support
John J Hall · Tabian Ambang · Augustine Asante · Pili Mapira · Adam Craig · Elisabeth Schuele · Maha Pervaz Iqbal
Advancing women in medical leadership
Unconscious gender bias still contributes to unspoken barriers to career progression, which prevail despite increased qualifications and work performance among women; yet emerging evidence is paving the way for effective change
Helena J Teede
The WHO resolution on sepsis: what action is needed in Australia?
Australia needs a coordinated nationwide plan to reduce preventable deaths and disability from sepsis
Luregn J Schlapbach · Kelly Thompson · Simon R Finfer
The risk of resistance: what are the major antimicrobial resistance threats facing Australia?
Collaborative systems are required to combat the rising challenge of antimicrobial resistance in health care facilities and the community
Deborah A Williamson · Benjamin P Howden · David L Paterson
Australia's response to the global threat of antimicrobial resistance: past, present and future
Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem that needs long term solutions and major resource investments
Joshua S Davis · Cheryl A Jones · Allen C Cheng · Benjamin P Howden
The false dichotomy of viral versus bacterial aetiology in upper respiratory tract infections
It' s time to move away from the viral versus bacterial dichotomy and embrace an evidencebased syndromic approach
Joshua S Davis · Parker J Magin · Mieke L Driel
Australia's National Medicines Policy is outdated and in need of review
Australia was one of the first countries to drive the development of national medicines policies globally, but is now lagging behind
Brendan Shaw · Orin Chisholm
Improving the delivery of primary care for older people
The strengths of primary care should be harnessed to address complexities of the ageing population
C Dimity Pond · Catherine Regan
From locum‐led outposts to locally led continuous rural training networks: the National Rural Generalist Pathway
Training doctors through regional teaching health service networks may help deliver sustainable high quality health care closer to home for rural Australians
Paul S Worley · Belinda O'Sullivan · Rose Ellis
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme restrictions on anti‐epileptic drug prescribing promote unsafe and outdated practice
The PBS urgently needs to update anti-epileptic drug prescribing restrictions that put patients and prescribers at risk
Christian A Gericke · Terence J O'Brien
Re‐framing the Indigenous kidney health workforce
A new taskforce of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clinicians will address the needs of an Indigenous-led kidney health workforce in Northern Australia
Jaquelyne T Hughes · Gwendoline Lowah · Janet Kelly
Inclusion of Indigenous Australians in biobanks: a step to reducing inequity in health care
Without improved practices and policy to guide the engagement and inclusion of Indigenous Australians in biobanks, the full health benefits provided by the genomic era will not be shared equitably
Imogen Elsum · Callum McEwan · Emma E Kowal · Yvonne Cadet‐James · Margaret Kelaher · Lynn Woodward
An urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous rural and remote primary health care
Infectious disease burden, antimicrobial use and resistance highlight the need for antimicrobial stewardship in Indigenous communities
Asha C Bowen · Kathryn Daveson · Lorraine Anderson · Steven YC Tong
Ending preventable stillbirths among migrant and refugee populations
There is an urgent need for stronger evidence to inform tailored health care strategies to address perinatal health disparities
Jane Yelland · Elisha Riggs · Josef Szwarc · Stephanie J Brown
A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care
Should doctors fear legal sanction for using opioids at the end of life?
Geoffrey K Mitchell · Lindy Willmott · Ben P White · Donella Piper · David C Currow · Patsy M Yates
