Research

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

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Nicola Creighton · Richard Walton · David M Roder · Sanchia Aranda · Arthur J Richardson · Neil Merrett · David Currow

A well designed campaign can increase the use of emergency medical services

Ziad Nehme · Peter A Cameron · Muhammad Akram · Harry Patsamanis · Janet E Bray · Ian T Meredith · Karen Smith

Involving pharmacists in preparing medication management plans in the discharge summary reduces the likelihood of errors

Erica Y Tong · Cristina P Roman · Biswadev Mitra · Gary S Yip · Harry Gibbs · Harvey H Newnham · De Villiers Smit · Kirsten Galbraith · Michael J Dooley

The excess burden of cancer among Indigenous people will persist until lifestyle risks are mitigated

John R Condon · Xiaohua Zhang · Karen Dempsey · Lindy Garling · Steven Guthridge

Location of residence may negatively influence the quality of care received by patients with pancreatic cancer

Elizabeth A Burmeister · Dianne L O'Connell · Susan J Jordan · David Goldstein · Neil Merrett · David K Wyld · Vanessa L Beesley · Helen M Gooden · Monika Janda · Rachel E Neale

The incidence of CRC in people under 50 in NSW was steady during 2001–2008

Stephen Boyce · Natasha Nassar · Cathy Yuen Yi Lee · Michael KL Suen · Saleh Al Zahrani · Marc A Gladman

Bookings of GPs have increased, particularly for people in residential aged care facilities

Angela Joe · Judy A Lowthian · Marianne Shearer · Lyle R Turner · Bianca Brijnath · Christopher Pearce · Colette Browning · Danielle Mazza

Changes to trauma systems may be benefiting patients in rural and regional NSW

Michael M Dinh · Kate Curtis · Rebecca J Mitchell · Kendall J Bein · Zsolt J Balogh · Ian Seppelt · Colin Deans · Rebecca Ivers · Saartje Berendsen Russell · Oran Rigby

The program has had substantially reduced the overall incidence of cervical cancer in women aged 25 and over

Megan Smith · Karen Canfell