Research

Socio-economic disadvantage and health needs must be tackled together if further gains are to be made

Nick Georges · Steven L Guthridge · Shu Qin Li · John R Condon · Tony Barnes · Yuejen Zhao

Different approaches may be required to prevent and treat fall-related injuries to older Aboriginal people

Caroline Lukaszyk · Lara A Harvey · Catherine Sherrington · Jacqueline CT Close · Julieann Coombes · Rebecca J Mitchell · Robyn Moore · Rebecca Ivers

The increasing costs and disability associated with mental ill-health are not correlated with any increase in its prevalence

Samuel B Harvey · Mark Deady · Min-Jung Wang · Arnstein Mykletun · Peter Butterworth · Helen Christensen · Philip B Mitchell

Acupuncture is accepted by patients, and its analgesic effect in some conditions is comparable with that of pharmacotherapy

Marc M Cohen · De Villiers Smit · Nick Andrianopoulos · Michael Ben-Meir · David McD Taylor · Shefton J Parker · Chalie C Xue · Peter A Cameron

A national policy framework is needed to reduce the number of premature deaths in nursing homes

Joseph E Ibrahim · Lyndal Bugeja · Melissa Willoughby · Marde Bevan · Chebiwot Kipsaina · Carmel Young · Tony Pham · David L Ranson

Further strategies are needed to close evidence–practice gaps

Santhi Chalasani · David P Peiris · Tim Usherwood · Julie Redfern · Bruce C Neal · David R Sullivan · Stephen Colagiuri · Nicholas A Zwar · Qiang Li · Anushka Patel

Medical education should focus on moving graduates from feeling merely prepared to being well or extremely well prepared

Jenny Barr · Kathryn J Ogden · Kim Rooney · Iain Robertson

Rates of burn injuries are higher for Indigenous children than for non-Indigenous Australian children

Holger Möller · Lara Harvey · Kathleen Falster · Rebecca Ivers · Kathleen F Clapham · Louisa Jorm

Focus on glycaemic control from diagnosis onwards is needed to reduce the risk of severe retinopathy

Mary White · Matthew A Sabin · Costan G Magnussen · Michele A O'Connell · Peter G Colman · Fergus Cameron

A carefully integrated diabetic retinopathy screening service is needed, particularly in remote areas, to improve adherence rates

Joshua Foreman · Stuart Keel · Jing Xie · Peter Van Wijngaarden · Hugh R Taylor · Mohamed Dirani

Comparisons of hospital mortality rates for stroke are critically affected by the statistical approach employed

Dominique A Cadilhac · Monique F Kilkenny · Christopher R Levi · Natasha A Lannin · Amanda G Thrift · Joosup Kim · Brenda Grabsch · Leonid Churilov · Helen M Dewey · Kelvin Hill · Steven G Faux · Rohan Grimley · Helen Castley · Peter J Hand · Andrew Wong · Geoffrey K Herkes · Melissa Gill · Douglas Crompton · Sandy Middleton · Geoffrey A Donnan · Craig S Anderson

Measuring changes in prevalence is important given the possibility of future Zika virus-related disease

Michele Hansen · Paul K Armstrong · Carol Bower · Gareth S Baynam

As travel to Asia increases, it is vital that clinicians can recognise and manage dengue

Alex YC Tai · Sarah L McGuinness · Roselle Robosa · David Turner · G Khai Lin Huang · Karin Leder · Tony M Korman · Irani Thevarajan · Andrew J Stewardson · Alexander A Padiglione · Douglas F Johnson

HBV prevalence is still higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous women, despite a successful vaccination program

Lucy Deng · Joanne Reekie · James S Ward · Andrew Hayen · John M Kaldor · Marlene Kong · Jennifer M Hunt · Bette Liu

A comprehensive approach to the health care of veterans with PTSD is needed

Sarah C McLeay · Wendy M Harvey · Madeline NM Romaniuk · Darrell HG Crawford · David M Colquhoun · Ross McD Young · Miriam Dwyer · John M Gibson · Robyn A O'Sullivan · Graham Cooksley · Christopher R Strakosch · Rachel M Thomson · Joanne Voisey · Bruce R Lawford

Icepacks remain the treatment of choice

Geoffrey K Isbister · Didier J Palmer · Rebecca L Weir · Bart J Currie

If high vaccine coverage is sustained, the higher rates of HPV-related cancer rates in Indigenous women should also decline

Hammad Ali · Hamish McManus · Catherine C O'Connor · Denton Callander · Marlene Kong · Simon Graham · Dina Saulo · Christopher K Fairley · David G Regan · Andrew Grulich · Nicola Low · Rebecca J Guy · Basil Donovan

Delaying retirement may be related to the primacy of work for doctors

Chanaka Wijeratne · Joanne K Earl · Carmelle Peisah · Georgina M Luscombe · Johanna Tibbertsma

The risk of a fatal outcome is low when patients are treated in specialist toxicology units

Peter I Pillans · Colin B Page · Sivarajah Ilango · Anna Kashchuk · Geoffrey K Isbister

Targeted follow-up during the initial 14 days after discharge may reduce re-admission rates

Gillian E Caughey · Nicole L Pratt · John D Barratt · Sepehr Shakib · Anna R Kemp-Casey · Elizabeth E Roughead

Without data on quality of care, the justifiability of differences in fees cannot be determined

Gary L Freed · Amy R Allen

Most Australian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes are not meeting the HbA1c target

Helen Phelan · Helen Clapin · Loren Bruns · Fergus J Cameron · Andrew M Cotterill · Jennifer J Couper · Elizabeth A Davis · Kim C Donaghue · Craig A Jefferies · Bruce R King · Richard O Sinnott · Elaine B Tham · Jerry K Wales · Timothy W Jones · Maria E Craig

An extra 4300 steps each day would save older people one day in hospital for each 3 years of life

Ben D Ewald · Christopher Oldmeadow · John R Attia

Improved screening rates and follow-up could reduce the burden of cervical cancer among Indigenous women

Lisa J Whop · Peter D Baade · Julia ML Brotherton · Karen Canfell · Joan Cunningham · Dorota Gertig · Kamalini Lokuge · Gail Garvey · Suzanne P Moore · Abbey Diaz · Dianne L O'Connell · Patricia Valery · David M Roder · John R Condon

Population-based mortality is more than twice as high for Indigenous as for non-Indigenous Australian children

Justyna A Ostrowski · Graeme MacLaren · Janet Alexander · Penny Stewart · Sheena Gune · Joshua R Francis · Subodh Ganu · Marino Festa · Simon J Erickson · Lahn Straney · Luregn J Schlapbach