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Myocarditis after COVID‐19 mRNA vaccination in Australia
The long term consequences of myocardial injury with vaccine-associated myocarditis warrant further investigation
Suraj K Varma · Ari E Horton · Anna L Taylor · Michael R Ditchfield · Sarah A Hope · Srinidhi JV Rao
COVID‐19 in New South Wales children during 2021: severity and clinical spectrum
Community support for children with special care needs could reduce the number of COVID-19-related hospitalisations
Phoebe Williams · Archana Koirala · Gemma L Saravanos · Laura K Lopez · Catherine Glover · Ketaki Sharma · Tracey Williams · Emma Carey · Nadine Shaw · Emma Dickens · Neela Sitaram · Joanne Ging · Paula Bray · Nigel W Crawford · Brendan McMullan · Kristine Macartney · Nicholas Wood · Elizabeth L Fulton · Christine Lau · Philip N Britton
Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales
Refining the assessment of symptoms in women in pre-hospital emergency services care could improve patient outcomes
Xia Wang · Cheryl Carcel · Benjumin Hsu · Sultana Shajahan · Matthew Miller · Sanne Peters · Deborah A Randall · Alys Havard · Julie Redfern · Craig S Anderson · Louisa Jorm · Mark Woodward
Infant feeding patterns before and after changes to food allergy prevention guidelines in Australia
Timely introduction of allergens did not reduce breastfeeding or increase extremely early introduction to solid foods
Jennifer Koplin · Victoria Soriano · Merryn Netting · Rachel Peters
The acceptability and usability of two HIV self‐test kits among men who have sex with men: a randomised crossover trial
It is important to provide options for obtaining both oral fluid- and blood-based HIV self-tests
Dana YL Lee · Jason J Ong · Kirsty Smith · Muhammad S Jamil · Ruthy McIver · Rebecca Wigan · Kate Maddaford · Anna McNulty · John M Kaldor · Christopher K Fairley · Benjamin Bavinton · Marcus Chen · Eric PF Chow · Andrew E Grulich · Martin Holt · Damian P Conway · Mark Stoove · Handan Wand · Rebecca J Guy
The short term safety of COVID‐19 vaccines in Australia: AusVaxSafety active surveillance, February – August 2021
AusVaxSafety active surveillance affirms the short term safety of Comirnaty and Vaxzevria vaccines in a large population sample
Lucy Deng · Catherine Glover · Michael Dymock · Alexis Pillsbury · Julie A Marsh · Helen E Quinn · Alan Leeb · Patrick Cashman · Thomas L Snelling · Nicholas Wood · Kristine Macartney
The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain
Longer ambulance offload times are associated with greater 30-day risks of death and ambulance re-attendance
Luke P Dawson · Emily Andrew · Michael Stephenson · Ziad Nehme · Jason Bloom · Shelley Cox · David Anderson · Jeffrey Lefkovits · Andrew J Taylor · David Kaye · Karen Smith · Dion Stub
Re‐assessing reactions to influenza vaccination initially classified as vaccine allergies
It may be safe to de-label many patients because their reactions do not meet anaphylaxis criteria
Beau Z Carr · Kymble Spriggs · Samar Ojaimi · Elizabeth Leahy · Sara L Barnes
People in intensive care with COVID‐19: demographic and clinical features during the first, second, and third pandemic waves in Australia
Higher in-hospital mortality during the third wave may reflect the virulence of Delta or the higher number of ICU admissions
Husna Begum · Ary S Neto · Patricia Alliegro · Tessa Broadley · Tony Trapani · Lewis T Campbell · Allen C Cheng · Winston Cheung · D James Cooper · Simon J Erickson · Craig J French · Edward Litton · Richard McAllister · Alistair Nichol · Annamaria Palermo · Mark P Plummer · Hannah Rotherham · Mahesh Ramanan · Benjamin Reddi · Claire Reynolds · Steven AR Webb · Andrew A Udy · Aidan Burrell
D-dimer testing for early detection of venom-induced consumption coagulopathy after snakebite in Australia (ASP-29)
Quantitative D-dimer assessment 2‒6 hours after snakebite could aid early diagnosis of envenoming with venom-induced consumption coagulopathy
Geoffrey K Isbister · Tina Noutsos · Shane Jenkins · Katherine Z Isoardi · Jessamine Soderstrom · Nicholas A Buckley
The incidence of falls after first and second eye cataract surgery: a longitudinal cohort study
Timely and equitable access to cataract surgery can prevent fall-related injuries and support healthy ageing
Lisa Keay · Kam Chun Ho · Kris Rogers · Peter McCluskey · Andrew JR White · Nigel Morlet · Jonathon Q Ng · Ecosse Lamoureux · Konrad Pesudovs · Fiona J Stapleton · Soufiane Boufous · Jessie Huang‐Lung · Anna Palagyi
N95 respirators: quantitative fit test pass rates and usability and comfort assessment by health care workers
Fit test results and performance evaluation by health care workers should be incorporated into respirator procurement decision making
Irene Ng · Benjamin Kave · Fiona Begg · Charles R Bodas · Reny Segal · Daryl Williams
Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death
Life expectancy increased more rapidly for Indigenous than non-Indigenous people but the gap remains considerable
Yuejen Zhao · Shu Qin Li · Tom Wilson · C Paul Burgess
Effect of a financial incentive on responses by Australian general practitioners to a postal survey: a randomised controlled trial
General practitioners view health and medical research positively, but their participation in postal surveys is typically low
Alison C Zucca · Mariko Carey · Rob W Sanson‐Fisher · Joel Rhee · Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair · Christopher Oldmeadow · Tiffany‐Jane Evans · Simon Chiu
The seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific antibodies in children, Australia, November 2020 – March 2021
The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in children and adolescents in early 2021 was very low
the PAEDS Serosurvey Group
Value of single troponin values in the emergency department for excluding acute myocardial infarction in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may benefit from culturally appropriate cardiac risk factor management
Jaimi H Greenslade · Sara Berndt · Laura Stephensen · Katrina Starmer · Greg Starmer · William Parsonage · Victor Lau · Tileah Drahm‐Butler · Tania Davis · Virginia Campbell · Richard Stone · Robert Bonnin · Sarah Ashover · Tanya Milburn · Elizabeth Mowatt · Karlie Proctor · Anthony Brazzale · Louise Ann Cullen
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