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Beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic: increasing the uptake of influenza vaccination by health and aged care workers
Very high influenza vaccination rates among health and aged care staff will be crucial if influenza activity increases this winter
Lyn‐li Lim · Noleen J Bennett · Sheena G Sullivan · Ann L Bull · Leon J Worth
Endoscopy volumes and outcomes at a tertiary Melbourne centre during the 2020 COVID‐19 lockdowns
The overall cancer detection rate increased and colonoscopy detection indicators were maintained during the 2020 lockdowns
Daniel Schneider · Michael Swan · Simon Hew
Selective personality‐targeted prevention of suicidal ideation in young adolescents: post hoc analysis of data collected in a cluster randomised controlled trial
Selective personality-targeted interventions offer an efficacious approach to targeting suicidal ideation in Australian school students
Lucinda R Grummitt · Jennifer Debenham · Erin Kelly · Emma L Barrett · Katrina Champion · Patricia Conrod · Maree Teesson · Nicola Newton
High prevalence of hearing loss in urban Aboriginal infants: the Djaalinj Waakinj cohort study
About two in three of participating urban Aboriginal infants had mild or moderate hearing loss at twelve months of age
Tamara Veselinović · Sharon A Weeks · Valerie M Swift · Deborah Lehmann · Christopher G Brennan‐Jones
The clinical and genetic features of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia
The estimated prevalence of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia is higher than in Europe, particularly among Indigenous young people
Denghao Wu · Tristan J Bampton · Hamish S Scott · Alex Brown · Karin Kassahn · Christopher Drogemuller · Sunita MC De Sousa · David Moore · Thuong Ha · John WC Chen · Sanjeev Khurana · David J Torpy · Toni Radford · Richard Couper · Lyle Palmer · P Toby Coates
Cholecystectomy for people aged 50 years or more with mild gallstone pancreatitis: predictors and outcomes of index and interval procedures
Index cholecystectomy should be routinely provided to people over 50 with mild gallstone pancreatitis unless clinically contraindicated
Jian D Blundell · Robert C Gandy · Jacqueline Close · Lara Harvey
Doctors with borders: the impact of international border closures on Timorese people who need cardiac procedures
The COVID-19 border closures delayed cardiac interventions for young patients by at least 18 months
Elizabeth Paratz · Joaquina Maurays · Ricardo Flavio · Alan Appelbe · Noel Bayley
A general practice intervention for people at risk of poor health outcomes: the Flinders QUEST cluster randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation
Our multicomponent intervention did not improve self-rated health, health service use, or health literacy
Richard L Reed · Leigh Roeger · Yuen H Kwok · Billingsley Kaambwa · Stephen Allison · Richard H Osborne
Adherence by orthopaedic surgeons to AHPRA and Australian Orthopaedic Association advertising guidelines
Surgeons should take care with the information they publish online, and professional advertising guidelines should be more strictly enforced
Hannah Y Ryan · Geoffrey Y Sun · Masiath Monuja · Michael Gillespie · Alexander Burns · Michael Solomon · Sam Adie
Anaphylaxis in Victoria: presentations to emergency departments, with a focus on drug‐ and antimicrobial‐related cases
Understanding drug-related anaphylaxis could improve prescribing practice in Australia
George P Drewett · Jess Encena · Joy Gregory · Lucinda Franklin · Jason A Trubiano
Influence of rural clinical school experience and rural origin on practising in rural communities five and eight years after graduation
Recruitment to and retention in rural practice were higher among graduates with extended RCS experience
Alexa N Seal · Denese Playford · Matthew R McGrail · Lara Fuller · Penny L Allen · Julie M Burrows · Julian R Wright · Suzanne Bain‐Donohue · David Garne · Laura G Major · Georgina M Luscombe
Long‐acting reversible contraception use after medical abortion is associated with reduced likelihood of a second medical abortion
Understanding of the benefits of early, reliable contraception after an abortion needs improving among health care practitioners and women
Luke E Grzeskowiak · Alice R Rumbold · Asvini Subasinghe · Danielle Mazza · Kirsten I Black · Helen Calabretto · Jenni Ilomäki
The COVID Positive Pathway: a collaboration between public health agencies, primary care, and metropolitan hospitals in Melbourne
About 80% of participants could be adequately supported by primary care and community organisations
Seok Ming Lim · Nicole L Allard · Janelle Devereux · Benjamin C Cowie · Michelle Tydeman · Alistair Miller · Khanh Ho · Brigitte Cleveland · Liz Singleton · Karen Aarons · Paul Eleftheriou · Thomas Chan · George Braitberg · Andrea Maier
Offering mailed nicotine replacement therapy and Quitline support before elective surgery: a randomised controlled trial
Systematically offering cessation support is a low cost means for encouraging elective surgery patients to quit
Ashley R Webb · Lisa Coward · Darshana Meanger · Samuel Leong · Sarah L White · Ron Borland
Detecting primary aldosteronism in Australian primary care: a prospective study
GPs actively screening for primary aldosteronism could facilitate early treatment of this readily managed form of secondary hypertension
Renata Libianto · Grant M Russell · Michael Stowasser · Stella M Gwini · Peta Nuttall · Jimmy Shen · Morag J Young · Peter J Fuller · Jun Yang
Achieving lipid targets within 12 months of an acute coronary syndrome: an observational analysis
Optimising lipid control could include more intensive therapy and combinations of medications, including novel agents
Noor Alsadat · Karice Hyun · Farzaneh Boroumand · Craig Juergens · Leonard Kritharides · David B Brieger
The distribution of ABO RhD blood groups in Australia, based on blood donor and blood sample pathology data
The distribution of blood groups has changed since 1993‒94, reflecting changes in the demographic characteristics of Australia
Rena Hirani · Natalie Weinert · David O Irving
Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018
Adjusted 30-day and 12-month rates declined for patients who underwent surgery
Lara Harvey · Ian A Harris · Rebecca J Mitchell · Adrian Webster · Ian D Cameron · Louisa Jorm · Hannah Seymour · Pooria Sarrami · Jacqueline Close
Area‐level social and economic factors and the local incidence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections in Victoria during 2020
Socio-economic factors may have contributed to the non-homogeneous incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections across Victoria during 2020
Christine Roder · Callum Maggs · Bridgette J McNamara · Daniel O'Brien · Amanda J Wade · Catherine Bennett · Julie A Pasco · Eugene Athan
Changes in five‐year survival for people with acute leukaemia in South Australia, 1980–2016
More effective therapies are needed for acute leukaemia, particularly for people over 50 years of age at diagnosis
Kerri Beckmann · Brendon J Kearney · David Yeung · Devendra Hiwase · Ming Li · David M Roder
Sentinel lymph node biopsy rates in Victoria, 2018 and 2019
The optimal use of online risk tools in practice and barriers to patient access should be investigated
Australian Melanoma Centre of Research Excellence Study Group
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Australia: the first three years of the Australian Sports Brain Bank
Clinicians and policymakers should develop measures that further mitigate the risk of sport-related repetitive head injury
Catherine M Suter · Andrew J Affleck · Maggie Lee · Alan J Pearce · Linda E Iles · Michael E Buckland
Same‐day inguinal hernia repair in Australia, 2000–19
Increasing same-day procedure rates will involve a complex interplay of pre-and post-operative decisions by hospitals, surgeons, and patients
Joanna MZ Mills · Georgina M Luscombe · Thomas J Hugh
The prevalence of tinnitus in the Australian working population
Workers at particular risk of tinnitus need targeted interventions that reduce its impact on their quality of life
Kate Lewkowski · Jane Heyworth · Elinor Ytterstad · Warwick Williams · Helen Goulios · Lin Fritschi
Medication not accounted for in hospital electronic medication administration records: a retrospective observational study
Almost 20% of units supplied to medical and surgical wards and emergency department were not administered to patients
Kimberly Walker · Andrew M Harding · Julina Tran · Paul Wembridge · Kent Garrett · Kent MacMillan · Olivia Rofe · Nicholas Jones · David Taylor
