Perspectives

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

Programmed medical yarn ups can reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ weight by meeting individual patients’ needs in a supportive group setting

John A Stevens · Garry Egger · Bob Morgan

Despite limited evidence of improvements in cognition, transcranial direct current stimulation devices are being marketed to healthy consumers for performance enhancement.

Anne-Maree Farrell · Adrian Carter · Nigel C Rogasch · Paul B Fitzgerald

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a safe and efficient treatment for resistant major depressive disorders; including it in Medicare would enable a more equitable availability for patients

Saxby Pridmore

Antibiotic allergy testing programs will ensure that vulnerable patients receive appropriate antibiotic therapy

Jason A Trubiano · M Lindsay Grayson · Karin A Thursky · Elizabeth J Phillips · Monica A Slavin

Establishing mentally healthy workplaces will reduce the risk of burnout

Michael Baigent · Ruth Baigent

National guidelines are needed for internet-based research and to provide guidance on acceptable standards for storing evidence of informed consent

Laura Goddard · Fiona J Bruinsma · Graham G Giles

Better biomarkers are needed to ensure early and accurate detection and prognosis of prostate cancer

Doug Brooks · Ian N Olver · Adrian J Esterman

Recent studies are expanding our understanding of the genetic basis of Parkinson disease

Elaine GY Chew · Jia Nee Foo · Eng-King Tan