Perspectives

Despite widespread calls for action, investment and interventions to change unprofessional behaviour in the health system have been ineffective

Johanna Westbrook · Neroli Sunderland · Victoria Atkinson · Catherine Jones · Jeffrey Braithwaite

To provide high quality patient care in rural and remote health settings, it is essential to invest in clinical supervision and explore models that enhance team building and improve recruitment and retention

Priya Martin · Tarun Sen Gupta · John M Douyere

Children need outdoor play but safety standards alone will never prevent all injuries; robust data are required to guide risk minimisation strategies

Ruth A Barker · David Eager · Lisa N Sharwood

It is crucial to facilitate cross-sectoral coordination, collaboration and investment to improve outcomes for adolescents and young adults with rare and low survival cancers

Adam Walczak · Pandora Patterson · David Thomas

Effective responses in policy and practice are essential to manage overdiagnosis and the sustainability of the health system

Ray Moynihan · Alexandra L Barratt · Rachelle Buchbinder · Stacy M Carter · Thomas Dakin · Jan Donovan · Adam G Elshaug · Paul P Glasziou · Christopher G Maher · Kirsten J McCaffery · Ian A Scott

Medical assistance in dying may disrupt therapeutic relationships and will challenge beliefs

Leeroy William

A new Australian strategy should finally reduce the significant national burden of diabetes-related foot disease

Peter A Lazzarini · Jaap J van Netten · Robert A Fitridge · Ian Griffiths · Ewan M Kinnear · Matthew Malone · Byron M Perrin · Jenny Prentice · Paul R Wraight

Worldwide, over 100 organisations are using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation approach; it is thus essential that clinicians using formal guidelines become familiar with the GRADE approach

Waleed Alhazzani · Gordon Guyatt

Australia and New Zealand have all the elements of a continuous quality improvement process for kidney allocation

Jeremy R Chapman · John Kanellis

A national clinical care standard for colonoscopy highlights key components of quality, safety and patient experience

Anne Duggan · Iain J Skinner · Alice L Bhasale

Australia needs a more systematic and nationally coordinated approach to manage the escalating health burden arising from incarcerated older people

Natasha A Ginnivan · Tony G Butler · Adrienne N Withall

It is essential that any clinician who orders breast cancer genetic testing understands the complexities and implications

Judy Kirk · Kristine K Barlow-Stewart · Nicola K Poplawski · Margaret Gleeson · Kathy Tucker · Michael Friedlander

Well designed and accessible electronic health records, national registries of verified drug reactions, and validated medical alerting devices may assist in the effective communication of drug allergy information

Michaela Lucas · Richard KS Loh · William B Smith

Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy may help avoid delays that might threaten the integrity and equity of access to therapy

Hugo Sampaio · Bridget Wilcken · Michelle Farrar

A certification process by an independent organisation will help tackle the threat that predatory journals pose to the intellectual community

Peter L Munk · Tyler M Coupal · Wilfred CG Peh

American experience suggests that public reporting of percutaneous coronary interventions is not associated with improved patient outcomes and is instead associated with possible patient harm through risk aversion

David Enze Wang · Rishi K Wadhera · Deepak L Bhatt

If the American hypertension guidelines were to be adopted, many of the newly diagnosed people with hypertension would be younger and would fall outside the age range for absolute risk assessment by the Australian standard

Garry LR Jennings · Bronwyn A Kingwell · Erin Hoare

We need to establish guidelines and a framework to ensure the development of effective, safe and relevant health apps, with appropriate regulatory oversight

Rahul Barmanray · Esther Briganti

Recent legislative and policy measures aim to raise awareness of the needs of older LGBTI people

Carmelle Peisah · Kim Burns · Samantha Edmonds · Henry Brodaty

Even modest improvements in influenza vaccine effectiveness are predicted to have an impact on preventing severe disease in older people

Sarah L Sheridan · Cyra Patel · Kristine Macartney · Allen C Cheng

Despite progress made in chronic disease management in Australia, there is an ongoing need for better quality of care and services integration, as rates of chronic disease and multimorbidity continue to rise

Mark F Harris · Ben Harris-Roxas · Andrew W Knight

Active screening of patients newly diagnosed with hypertension is the best way to capture patients with primary aldosteronism early to maximise the benefits of treatment and minimise end-organ damage

Jun Yang · Peter J Fuller · Michael Stowasser

As a federal election looms, now is the time for coordinated, strategic and innovative action from a unified, agile collective committed to improving Australia’s health and nutrition

Alessandro Demaio · Alexandra Jones

An accelerated HIV prevention and control strategy is necessary to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people meet local and global suppression targets

James S Ward · Karen Hawke · Rebecca J Guy