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Research

Development and calibration of the 2023 Australian cardiovascular disease risk prediction equations: a model updating study

Ellie Paige, Emily Banks AM, Yuehan Zhang, Anushka Patel, Mark Woodward, Natalie Raffoul, Garry Jennings and Rodney T Jackson

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 197-204 Open Access

The Telephysiotherapy for Older People (TOP‐UP) program for improving mobility in people receiving aged care: a hybrid type 1 effectiveness–implementation randomised controlled trial

Rik Dawson, Marina Pinheiro, Juliana Oliveira, Abby Haynes, Vasikaran Naganathan, Morag E Taylor, Nina Bowes, Karn Nelson, Jenny Rayner and Catherine Sherrington

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 205-213 Open Access

Estimated carbon emissions for PBS‐subsidised prescription respiratory inhalers, Australia, 2019–2023: a descriptive analysis

Luise Kazda, Alexandra L Barratt, Sean Docking, Kristen Pickles, Darlene Cox, Ross S Bailie, Kate Wylie and Katy JL Bell

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 214-217 Open Access

The prevalence of and variation in indicators of the quality and safety of long term aged care in Australia, 2019: a cross‐sectional population‐based study

Tesfahun C Eshetie, Gillian E Caughey, Catherine Lang, Olivia Ryan, Renuka Visvanathan, Craig Whitehead, Keith Evans, Janet K Sluggett, Jyoti Khadka, Carolyn Dawkins, Helena Williams, Miranda Starke, Sara Blunt, Anne Liddell, Megan Corlis, Anna Sheppeard, Penelope Lello, Marilyn Thien, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 189-196 Open Access

Prescription opioid supply‐restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis

Suzanne Nielsen, Louisa Picco, Bosco Rowland, Nadine E Andrew, Taya A Collyer, Samanta Lalic, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher Pearce, J Simon Bell, Dan I Lubman and Ting Xia

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 134-140 Open Access

Health and economic benefits of improving pre‐hospital identification of stroke in Australian women: a modelling study

Thomas Gadsden, Lei Si, Emily R Atkins, Cheryl Carcel, Xia Wang, Stephen Jan, Mark Woodward and Laura E Downey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 141-148 Open Access

Trends in adolescent smoking prevalence before and after the emergence of vaping in Australia: an interrupted time series analysis, 1999–2023

Sam J Egger, Michael David, Marianne F Weber, Qingwei Luo, Anita Dessaix and Becky Freeman

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (10): n/a-n/a Open Access

Promoting resilience to weather‐related and seasonal provocations to health in people with multimorbid heart disease: a prospective pragmatic, randomised trial

Simon Stewart, Sheila K Patel, Terase F Lancefield, Thalys Sampaio Rodrigues, Nicholas Doumtsis, Nasreen Moini, Ashleigh Harley, Emily‐Rose Vaughan‐Fowler, Yih‐Kai Chan, Alexander Chen, David Chye, David FL Liew, Christopher McMaster, Jay Ramchand, Paul A Yates, Jason C Kwong, Christine F McDonald and Louise M Burrell

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 77-84 Open Access

Motivations, barriers and enablers for medical and forensic examiners in New South Wales sexual assault services: a qualitative interview study

Natalie Edmiston, Sam Sperring, Rosalie Power, Samantha Ryan, Kathryn Evans, Jane Ussher and Ellie Freedman

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 85-91 Open Access

Symptom burden, quality of life, and diagnostic journey of people with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Australia, 2021–24: a descriptive patient registry data study

Marie‐Claire Seeley, Gemma Wilson, Eric Ong, Amy Langdon, Jonathan Chieng, Danielle Bailey, Kristina Comacchio, Amanda Page, Dennis H Lau and Celine Gallagher

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 159-160 Open Access

The incidence of and risk factors for hospitalisations and amputations for people with diabetes‐related foot ulcers in Queensland, 2011–19: an observational cohort study

Yuqi Zhang, Susanna M Cramb, Steven M McPhail, Rosana Pacella, Jaap J Netten, Ewan M Kinnear and Peter A Lazzarini

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 149-158 Open Access

What do Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory value during the operation journey? A qualitative study

Edith B Waugh, Marita Hefler, Sophie Pascoe, Mark Mayo, Matthew JL Hare, David A Story, Neil Wilkshire, Peter Henwood, David Croker and Jampijinpa Ross

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 30-37 Open Access

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices on the National Lung Cancer Screening Program: a qualitative study from Worimi and Awabakal country

Tanika L Ridgeway (Worimi), Kayden Roberts‐Barker (Wiradjuri), Kade Booth and Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 38-45 Open Access

Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study

Stephen P McDonald AM, Katie Cundale, Christopher E Davies, Kelli Karrikarringka Owen (Kaurna, Nharangga, and Ngarrindjeri), Kerry Dole, Feruza Kholmurodova, Matilda D’Antoine (Paakantyi) and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 46-53 Open Access

Bone health perspectives among Indigenous people: a qualitative study

Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta), Karan P Singh, Vanessa Gan, Brooke Conley (Ngiyampaa), Jessica Bravo, Nigel Smith (Weilwan), April Clarke (Eastern Maar, Kirrae Whurrung, Djap Wurrung), Jackson Baker, Louise J Maple‐Brown, Robin M Daly, Jennifer Browne, Jesse Zanker, Cat Shore‐Lorenti, David Scott, Peter R Ebeling and Ayse Zengin

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 92-100 Open Access

Factors that affect the provision of medical abortion services in Australian primary care: a mixed methods systematic review

Greta Skahill and Mridula Shankar

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 101-110 Open Access

Remote patient monitoring for managing acute COVID‐19, and mortality and hospital use in Sydney, New South Wales, 2021–22: a retrospective observational cohort study

Myong Gyu Kim, Phuong Thao Phan, Cambell McMaster, Praveen Indraratna, Jennifer Yu, Allison Martin, Rebecca Pinheiro, Lisa Altman, Guenter Schreier, Benjamin Kwan, Pamela Konecny, Jeffrey J Post, Nigel Lovell, Sze‐Yuan Ooi and Kristen Overton

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 550-557 Open Access

Smartphone‐activated volunteer responders and survival to discharge after out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2018–23: an observational cohort study

Belinda Delardes, Mads Christian Tofte Gregers, Emily Nehme, Michael Ray, Dylan Hall, Tony Walker, David Anderson, Daniel Okyere, Ashanti Dantanarayana and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 504-509 Open Access

The intersection of rurality and dementia prevalence in Australia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non‐Indigenous peoples

Antonia J Clarke, Marwan Ahmed, Judith M Katzenellenbogen, John Towney (Wiradjuri), Anna H Balabanski, Adrienne Withall (Dharawal Yuin), Kylie Radford and Amy Brodtmann

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 510-516 Open Access

Improved cancer survival in the Northern Territory: identifying progress and disparities for Aboriginal peoples, 1991–2020

Rowena Boyd, Michail Charakidis, C Paul Burgess, Sarah Dugdale, Craig Castillon (Jawoyn, Katherine Region, NT), Dzulfikaar Sutandar and Alyson Wright

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 517-523 Free

Evaluating the impact of COVID‐19 vaccination strategies on infections and hospitalisations in Victoria with non‐seasonal epidemic wave patterns: a modelling study

Fenella McAndrew, Romesh Abeysuriya and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 558-566 Open Access

Nirsevimab immunisation of infants and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)‐associated hospitalisations, Western Australia, 2024: a population‐based analysis

Lauren E Bloomfield, Nevada V Pingault, Rachel E Foong, Sarah French, Jo‐Anne Morgan, Ushma Wadia, Hannah C Moore, Christopher C Blyth, Peter C Richmond, Paul K Armstrong and Paul V Effler

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 568-570 Open Access

The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey

Ben Mathews, Kelsey L Hegarty, Harriet L MacMillan, Monica Madzoska, Holly E Erskine, Rosana Pacella, James G Scott, Hannah Thomas, Franziska Meinck, Daryl Higgins, David M Lawrence, Divna Haslam, Sara Roetman, Eva Malacova and Timothy Cubitt

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 440-448 Open Access

Incidental findings during lung low‐dose computed tomography cancer screening in Australia and Canada, 2016–21: a prospective observational study

Asha Bonney, Diane M Pascoe, Mark W McCusker, Daniel Steinfort, Henry Marshall, Annette McWilliams, Fraser J Brims, Emily Stone, Paul Fogarty, Jeremy D Silver, Brad Milner, Elizabeth Silverstone, Eugene Hsu, Duy Nguyen, Christopher Rofe, Cameron White, XinXin Hu, John Mayo, Renelle Myers, Kwun M Fong, Renee Manser and Stephen Lam

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 403-411 Open Access

Social determinants of health and intensive care unit admission rates and outcomes for children, Australia, 2013–2020: analysis of national registry data

Katie M Moynihan, Vanessa Russ, Darren Clinch, Lahn Straney, Johnny Millar, Marino Festa, Natasha Nassar, Shreerupa Basu, Thavani Thavarajasingam, Debbie Long, Paul J Secombe and Anthony J Slater, for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group and Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 412-421 Open Access