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Letters

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Velandai Srikanth

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 503-503 Free

Letters

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Natasha Reid and Leonard C Gray

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 503-503 Free

Editorials

Re‐imagining health care for an ageing population

Renuka Visvanathan and Donald Campbell

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (3): 105-106

Research

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Natasha Reid, Thakeru Gamage, Stephen J Duckett and Leonard C Gray

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (3): 113-119 Free

Letters

Recognising and supporting the role of enrolled nurses in Australian nursing homes

Micah DJ Peters

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 284-284 Free

Perspectives

Hospital congestion: a market solution to address delayed transfers of care from hospital beds

Benedict Rogers, Juan Paolo Legaspi and Tarun Bastiampillai

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 298-300 Free

Research letter

Different estimates of the prevalence of dementia in Australia, 2021

Annette J Dobson, Leon Flicker, Osvaldo P Almeida, Michael Waller and Kaarin Anstey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 320-321 Free

Editorials

Aged care residents — and everybody else — would benefit from better control of COVID‐19 transmission

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 166-167 Free

Research

Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID‐19 during the Omicron (BA.1) wave in Queensland

Robert J Ellis, Cameron RM Moffatt, Luke T Aaron, Greta Beaverson, Khin Chaw, Corinne Curtis, Rhett Freeman‐Lamb, Deborah Judd, Khadija Khatry, Yee Sum Li, Terry Nash, Bonnie Macfarlane, Karen Slater, Yudish Soonarane, Mark Stickley and Satyamurthy Anuradha

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 174-179 Free

Perspectives

Implementing mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for Australian aged care workers

Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Jane Desborough, Anne Parkinson, Elizabeth A Sturgiss, Paul Kelly and Michael Kidd

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 570-574 Free

Perspectives

More than a fleeting conversation: managing medication communication across transitions of care

Elizabeth Manias, Carmel Hughes, Robyn E Woodward‐Kron, Christine M Jorm, Guncag Ozavci and Tracey K Bucknall

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 176-177 Free

Editorials

Prompt access to cataract surgery is vital for preventing falls in older people

Alexander Foss

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 84-85

Research

The incidence of falls after first and second eye cataract surgery: a longitudinal cohort study

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 and Anna Palagyi

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 94-99 Free

Research letter

Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018

Lara Harvey, Ian A Harris, Rebecca J Mitchell, Adrian Webster, Ian D Cameron, Louisa Jorm, Hannah Seymour, Pooria Sarrami and Jacqueline Close

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 420-421 Free

Letters

The ABCD of the comprehensive geriatric assessment

Alaa Alghamry and Joseph C Lee

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 211-211

Letters

The ABCD of the comprehensive geriatric assessment

Paven Kaur

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 211-211

Letters

A guide for medical practitioners transitioning to an encore career or retirement

Geoffrey Hawson

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 105-105

Letters

A guide for medical practitioners transitioning to an encore career or retirement

Chanaka Wijeratne and Joanne Earl

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 106-106

Letters

We need a model of health and aged care services that adequately supports Australians with dementia

Jo‐Anne Rayner, Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 286-287

Perspectives

What price quality in aged care? Findings from a national survey of more than 6500 income taxpayers

Julie Ratcliffe, Jyoti Khadka, Sheela Kumaran and Billingsley Kaambwa

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 307-310.e1

Research letters

Background rates of hospital transfer and death in Australian aged care facilities: estimates to assist interpretation of rates after COVID‐19 vaccination

Hazel J Clothier, Yonatan M Mesfin, Steven Strange and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 180-181 Free

Editorials

The future of rehabilitation for older Australians

Ian D Cameron, Maria Crotty and Susan E Kurrle

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 169-170

Perspectives

The ABCD of the comprehensive geriatric assessment

Paven Kaur, Jeffrey Rowland and Elizabeth Whiting

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 206-207.e1

Research

Psychotropic medicine prescribing and polypharmacy for people with dementia entering residential aged care: the influence of changing general practitioners

Heidi J Welberry, Louisa R Jorm, Andrea L Schaffer, Sebastiano Barbieri, Benjumin Hsu, Mark F Harris, John Hall and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 130-136 Free

Letters

Is Australia over‐reliant on residential aged care to support our older population?

Diane M Gibson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 45-45.e1