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Exceedances of national air quality standards for particulate matter in Western Australia: sources and health‐related impacts

Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Andrew J Palmer, David MJS Bowman and Fay H Johnston

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (6): 280-281 Free

Stereotactic radiosurgery for managing brain metastases in Victoria, 2012–2017

Wee Loon Ong, Therese Ming Jung Kang, Gishan Ratnayake, Morikatsu Wada, Jeremy Ruben, Sashendra Senthi, Roger L Milne, Jeremy L Millar and Farshad Foroudi

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 526-527 Open Access

Decline in new medical graduates registered as general practitioners

Denese Playford, Jennifer A May, Hanh Ngo and Ian B Puddey

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (9): 421-422 Free

Unprecedented smoke‐related health burden associated with the 2019–20 bushfires in eastern Australia

Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Andrew J Palmer, David MJS Bowman, Geoffrey G Morgan, Bin B Jalaludin and Fay H Johnston

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (6): 282-283 Open Access

Antiplatelet therapy within 30 days of percutaneous coronary intervention with stent implantation

Benjumin Hsu, Michael O Falster, Andrea L Schaffer, Sallie Pearson, Louisa Jorm and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 124-125 Free

Comparison of colonic neoplasia detection rates in patients screened inside and outside the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Simon Whitcher, Monique Magnusson, Jon Gani, Christopher Oldmeadow and Peter G Pockney

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 275-276 Free

Survival of patients with ruptured and non‐ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma

Natassia P Tan, Ammar Majeed, Stuart K Roberts, Paul J Gow, Penny Hey, Xianjun Mah, Mark Goodwin, Siddharth Sood, John Lubel, Amanda Nicoll, Anouk Dev, Sally J Bell and William W Kemp

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 277-278 Free

Validating Indigenous status in a regional Queensland hospital emergency department dataset with patient‐linked data

Mary O'Loughlin, Linton Harriss, Jane Mills, Fintan Thompson and Robyn McDermott

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (5): 230-231 Open Access

Changing practice: incidence of non‐reconstructive arthroscopic knee surgery in people over 50 years of age, Australia, 2008–2018

So Mang (Simon) Lee, Wasim Awal and Christopher Vertullo

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (1): 29-30 Free

Essential oil exposures in Australia: analysis of cases reported to the NSW Poisons Information Centre

Kristenbella AYR Lee, Joanna E Harnett and Rose Cairns

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (3): 132-133 Free

The impact of an alcohol floor price on critical care admissions in Central Australia

Paul J Secombe, Penny Stewart, Alex Brown, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (5): 229-230 Free

Should we routinely test for Mycoplasma genitalium when testing for other sexually transmitted infections?

James D Stewart, Brooke Webb, Michelle Francis, Maryza Graham and Tony M Korman

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (1): 30-31 Free

Rescheduling codeine‐containing analgesics reduced codeine‐related hospital presentations

Keith Harris, Andrew Jiang, Robert Knoeckel and Katherine Z Isoardi

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 328-328 Free

International travel by Australians for overseas transplantation

Georgia Smith, Diba Gujari, Oscar Russell, Lyle Palmer, Maeghan Toews, Germaine Wong, Wai Lim, Stephen McDonald, Phillip Clayton, Dominique Martin and Patrick T Coates

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (10): 460-460 Free

Illegal and risky riding of electric scooters in Brisbane

Narelle L Haworth and Amy Schramm

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (9): 412-413 Free

Health care for older people in rural and remote Australia: challenges for service provision

Fergus W Gardiner, Alice M Richardson, Lara Bishop, Abby Harwood, Elli Gardiner, Lauren Gale, Narcissus Teoh, Robyn M Lucas and Martin Laverty

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): 363-364 Free

Clinically important sport‐related traumatic brain injuries in children

Nitaa Eapen, Gavin A Davis, Meredith L Borland, Natalie Phillips, Ed Oakley, Stephen Hearps, Amit Kochar, Sarah Dalton, John Cheek, Jeremy Furyk, Mark D Lyttle, Silvia Bressan, Louise Crowe, Stuart Dalziel, Emma Tavender and Franz E Babl

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): 365-366 Free

The financial cost of intensive care in Australia: a multicentre registry study

Peter Hicks, Sue Huckson, Emma Fenney, Isobel Leggett, David Pilcher and Edward Litton

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): 324-325 Free

Adherence to screen time recommendations for Australian children aged 0–12 years

Leigh Tooth, Katrina Moss, Richard Hockey and Gita D Mishra

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 181-182 Free

Leprosy in Far North Queensland: almost gone, but not to be forgotten

Allison Hempenstall, Simon Smith and Josh Hanson

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 182-183 Free

Reduced VRE and MRSA colonisation and infection following sustained reduction in broad spectrum antibiotic use in a large tertiary hospital

John K Ferguson, Sally A Munnoch, Kristi Kozierowski, Simon Chiu and Christopher Oldmeadow

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 126-127 Free

Diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease: be alert to the possibility of negative initial PCR results

Daniel P O'Brien, Maria Globan, Janet M Fyfe, Caroline J Lavender, Adrian Murrie, Damian Flanagan, Peter Meggyesy, Jonathan T Priestley and David Leslie

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 416-416 Free

Silent but deadly: patients with enterococcal bacteraemia should be assessed for colorectal neoplasia

Eugene Athan, Ivana Cabiltes, Sarah Coghill and Steven J Bowe

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 86 Free

Exposures to e‐cigarettes and their refills: calls to Australian Poisons Information Centres, 2009–2016

Carol Wylie, Aaron Heffernan, Jared A Brown, Rose Cairns, Ann‐Maree Lynch and Jeff Robinson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (3): 126 Free

Increased incidence of community‐associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections in Victoria and Western Australia, 2011–2016

Nabeel Imam, Simone Tempone, Paul K Armstrong, Rebecca McCann, Sandra Johnson, Leon J Worth and Michael J Richards

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (2): 87-88 Free