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Dying of heart failure: how do we improve the experience?
Cardiologists require competency and confidence in managing not only deteriorating but also end of life, heart failure
Dominica Zentner · Vithoosharan Sivanathan · Jennifer Philip · Natasha Smallwood
The role of omega‐3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the prevention of preterm birth
Affordable and accessible testing to measure omega-3 levels is paramount to reduce preterm births
Joanna YX Fu · Carol A Wang · Elyse C Mead · Jason Phung · Maria Makrides · Craig E Pennell
Time to set a standard for the standards: health libraries provide crucial support for Australian medical training programs
Accreditation by medical colleges should ensure equity of access to library services, facilities and expertise for Australian medical trainees.
Gemma Siemensma · Anna Griffith · Alice Anderson · Angela Smith
Exploring opportunities to reduce scope 3 emissions in renewably powered health services
Health services are transitioning to become renewably powered: could this also help reduce health care supply chain emissions?
Urvi D Thanekar · Martin Hensher · Rebecca Patrick · George Keel · Michael Forrester
Beyond the planned and expected: the unintended consequences of telehealth in rural and remote Australia through a complexity lens
The unique health and social challenges of rural and remote Australians suggest that using telehealth to improve health care access is a complex and multifaceted problem
Sagda Osman · Kate Churruca · Louise A Ellis · Jeffrey Braithwaite
Ethics of artificial intelligence in supportive care in cancer
Addressing the ethical implications helps physician and patient engagement with AI in supportive cancer care
Ian N Olver
Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice: a critical perspective of current guidelines and risk assessment tools
Enhancing symptomatic cancer diagnosis requires GP-appropriate guidelines and tools that reflect a generalist approach to diagnosis
Brent Venning · Jon D Emery
The mental health crisis needs more than increased investment in the mental health system
Tackling the mental health crisis requires addressing the social determinants of mental health and a whole-of-system approach to this problem
Shuichi Suetani · Neeraj Gill · Luis Salvador‐Carulla
Should voluntary assisted dying in Victoria be extended to encompass people with dementia?
Voluntary assisted dying for people with dementia would require a new framework, presenting social, ethical and clinical challenges
Paul A Komesaroff · Michael Chapman · Geetanjali Lamba · Ian H Kerridge · Cameron L Stewart · Alex Holmes · Sophie Lewis · Jennifer Philip
Psychological safety in medicine: what is it, and who cares?
Psychological safety has remained on the periphery of the health care world
Mina Sarofim
Towards national paediatric clinical practice guidelines
We are almost at the point of having truly national paediatric guidelines in Australia
Mike Starr
Medicare‐funded reproductive genetic carrier screening in Australia has arrived: are we ready?
Reproductive genetic carrier screening publicly available for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome
Alice P Rogers · Lara Fitzgerald · Jan Liebelt · Christopher Barnett
Response to the ASHM 2023 statement on the use of doxy‐PEP in Australia: considerations and recommendations
Use of prophylactic doxycycline for STI prevention requires urgent implementation of comprehensive monitoring systems
Sara FE Bell · Emma L Sweeney · Fabian YS Kong · David M Whiley · Catriona S Bradshaw · Jacob A Tickner
The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector
There are signs of progress, but a greater sense of urgency is still required
Paul J Beggs · Stefan Trueck · Martina K Linnenluecke · Hilary Bambrick · Anthony G Capon · Ivan C Hanigan · Nicolas Borchers Arriagada · Troy J Cross · Sharon Friel · Donna Green · Maddie Heenan · Ollie Jay · Harry Kennard · Arunima Malik · Celia McMichael · Mark Stevenson · Sotiris Vardoulakis · Tran N Dang · Gail Garvey · Raymond Lovett · Veronica Matthews · Dung Phung · Alistair J Woodward · Marina B Romanello · Ying Zhang
Australia's mental health commissions: evaluating a natural experiment
Australia’s experiment with commissions requires urgent overhaul to prevent waste and to ensure the key challenge of improving accountability is fulfilled
Sebastian P Rosenberg
Call to end shackling of hospitalised palliative prisoner patients
It is essential that the practice of restraining dying prisoner patients is reviewed and overhauled so that prisoners can be granted the fundamental human right of a dignified death
Lara Pemberton · Stacey Panozzo · Jennifer Philip
Women in medical leadership: has the COVID‐19 crisis heightened the glass cliff?
Organisation level interventions are needed to better support prospective women medical leaders
Melissa A Wheeler · Laksmi S Govindasamy
The role of medical colleges and member organisations in advancing women in health care leadership
Member organisations, such as medical colleges, can influence organisational and system change to advance women in medical leadership
Jenny Proimos · Jacqueline A Boyle · Belinda Garth · Erwin Loh · Helena J Teede
Artificial intelligence for surgical services in Australia and New Zealand: opportunities, challenges and recommendations
Artificial intelligence is being rapidly taken up by health care services, presenting opportunities and challenges for its use in the surgical services of Australia and New Zealand
Joshua G Kovoor · Stephen Bacchi · Prakriti Sharma · Srishti Sharma · Medhir Kumawat · Brandon Stretton · Aashray K Gupta · WengOnn Chan · Amal Abou‐Hamden · Guy J Maddern
Prosthetic joint infection diagnosis in an age of changing clinical patterns of infection and new technologies
Prosthetic joint infection diagnostic criteria have been progressively refined in recent decades, and novel approaches are emerging
Joshua S Davis · David Dewar · Laurens Manning
Enhanced recovery after surgery: an update for the generalist
ERAS peri-operative care protocols have been as impactful as minimal access techniques in improving outcomes following major surgery
Andrew G Hill · James Jin
Who should get the last TAVI valve? Public versus private access to disruptive technologies in the Australian health care system
The failure of health technology assessments to bridge the federal–state divide contributes to public–private access gaps
Jonathon B Ryan
Medical students: a potentially sustainable solution for our workforce crisis and future reforms in health care
An agile and dynamic workforce of medical students can address critical workforce shortages in the health care system and facilitate future reforms
Rebecca Goodall · Emily Matejin · Sean Fabri · Paul Eleftheriou
Australia's rheumatic fever strategy three years on
The strategy represents a powerful shift to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled policy and practice
Dawn Casey · Patricia Turner
Inflammation: the next target for secondary prevention in coronary artery disease
Anti-inflammatory drugs can reduce cardiovascular events, but risks, benefits and mediating mechanisms are still uncertain
Samia Kazi · James J H Chong · Clara K Chow
