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Working together to ensure health care access for doctors
Physicians share a collective responsibility to support their peers in the help-seeking process
Margaret P Kay · Victoria Dawes
Sex and gender in health research: updating policy to reflect evidence
Australia needs to develop and implement policies to ensure that data are disaggregated, analysed and presented by sex and gender
The Sex and Gender Sensitive Research Call to Action Group
The ethics approval process for multisite research studies in Australia: changes sought by the Australian Genomics initiative
Australian Genomics is calling for a change in research ethics and governance frameworks
on behalf of Australian Genomics
The 2019 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: a turbulent year with mixed progress
The lack of national policy means that Australia remains at significant risk of declines in health due to climate change — substantial and sustained national action is urgently required
Paul J Beggs · Ying Zhang · Hilary Bambrick · Helen L Berry · Martina K Linnenluecke · Stefan Trueck · Peng Bi · Sinead M Boylan · Donna Green · Yuming Guo · Ivan C Hanigan · Fay H Johnston · Diana L Madden · Arunima Malik · Geoffrey G Morgan · Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick · Lucie Rychetnik · Mark Stevenson · Nick Watts · Anthony G Capon
Nationally linked data to improve health services and policy
A well designed National Integrated Health Services Information Analysis Asset will improve services and policy
Tom G Briffa · Louisa Jorm · Rodney T Jackson · Christopher Reid · Derek P Chew
Pill‐testing as a harm reduction strategy: time to have the conversation
Despite harm reduction being a pillar of the Australian National Drug Strategy, current governments are shying away from pill-testing as a viable strategy
Jody Morgan · Alison Jones
Biostatistics: a fundamental discipline at the core of modern health data science
Medical and public health research is dependent on the valid analysis and interpretation of data, which requires investment in biostatistics as a fundamental scientific discipline for health research
Katherine J Lee · Margarita Moreno‐Betancur · Jessica Kasza · Ian C Marschner · Adrian G Barnett · John B Carlin
Device closure for patent foramen ovale in patients with cryptogenic stroke: a paradigm in evidence
Recent randomised trials will alter management of patent foramen ovale in patients with cryptogenic stroke
Francis J Ha · Heath Adams · Sonny Palmer
Including ethnic and cultural diversity in dementia research
Australian dementia research needs increased representation of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
Lee‐Fay Low · Annica L Barcenilla‐Wong · Bianca Brijnath
Ebola virus disease preparedness and response in Central East Africa
The current Ebola outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, and while international risk remains low, we need to remain vigilant for symptomatic travellers
Luke J Vos
Responding to mandatory immigration detention: lessons for the health care community
What should the health care community do when faced with major human rights abuses?
Ryan Essex · David Isaacs
The evolving role of intensive care in health care and society
Despite the evolving needs of patients and changing societal expectations, Australasian intensive care continues to provide a world leading service to patients and the broader society
Stephen Warrillow · Raymond Raper
Equity for Indigenous Australians in intensive care
The similarity in mortality among Indigenous and non-Indigenous critically ill patients hides a complex story
Paul J Secombe · Alex Brown · Michael J Bailey · David Pilcher
Towards gender balance in the Australian intensive care medicine workforce
Achieving gender equity in intensive care medicine requires specific interventions to attract and retain female trainees and support their progress to leadership roles
Lucy J Modra · Sarah A Yong
Evolution not revolution: the future of the randomised controlled trial in intensive care research
Innovative design methodologies may improve the statistical efficiency and success of future randomised trials
Sandra Peake · Anthony Delaney · Craig J French
Difficulties in knowing which critical care trial data warrant change in practice
Why is some strong evidence ignored while some weak evidence is rapidly acted upon?
Benjamin Reddi · Mark Finnis · Sandra Peake
Risks and realities of single vial antivenom recommendations for envenoming by Australian elapid snakes
Antivenom dosage for Australian elapid envenoming should be decided by clinical evaluation of individual patients
Scott A Weinstein · Peter J Mirtschin · Julian White
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
