MJA
MJA

Gerontology

2017

Research

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

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

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (10): 442-447 Free

Editorials

Averting avoidable deaths of nursing home residents

Catherine Yelland

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (10): 434-435 Free

Research

Professional and psychosocial factors affecting the intention to retire of Australian medical practitioners

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

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (5): 209-214 Free

Research

Self-poisoning by older Australians: a cohort study

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

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 164-169 Free

Research

Understanding 30-day re-admission after hospitalisation of older patients for diabetes: identifying those at greatest risk

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

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 170-175 Free

Editorials

Self-poisoning by older Australians

Malcolm J Hopwood

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 161-162 Free

Research

Daily step count and the need for hospital care in subsequent years in a community-based sample of older Australians

Ben D Ewald, Christopher Oldmeadow and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 126-130 Free

2016

Competition / MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize Winner — Medical student category

Ageing and access in the mountains

Rebekah Young

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 512-513 Free

Competition / MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize: Winner medical practitioner category

Of a different age

Mahmood F Bhutta

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 511 Free

Editorials

After-hours medical deputising services for older people

C Dimity Pond

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 395-396 Free

Research

After-hours medical deputising services: patterns of use by older people

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

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (9): 397-402 Free

Narrative review

Sarcopenia: a potential cause and consequence of type 2 diabetes in Australia’s ageing population?

David Scott, Barbora de Courten and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (7): 329-333 Free

Reflection

Voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia: are we really better off dead?

Briony J Murphy

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 254-255

Perspectives

When an elder is the abuser

Chanaka Wijeratne and Sharon Reutens

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 246-247 Free

Research

Old but not forgotten: Antibiotic allergies in General Medicine (the AGM Study)

Jason A Trubiano, Rekha Pai Mangalore, Yi-Wei Baey, Duy Le, Linda V Graudins, Patrick GP Charles, Douglas F Johnson and Ar Kar Aung

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (7): 273 Free

Perspectives

Identifying low-value care: the Royal Australasian College of Physicians’ EVOLVE initiative

Jason Soon, Rachelle Buchbinder, Jacqui Close, Catherine Hill, Simon Allan and Caroline Turnour

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 180-181

Reflections

The acute care conveyor belt: a personal experience

Kimberley D Ivory

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 162-163 Free

Case reports / Snapshot

Massive subdural haematoma and dementia: a “yin and yang” paradigm

Pietro Maggi, Jean Christophe Bier and Sandra De Breucker

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 126

Editorials

Therapeutic advances and risk factor management: our best chance to tackle dementia?

Terence WH Chong, Samantha M Loi, Nicola T Lautenschlager and David Ames

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 91-92 Free

Case reports / Snapshot

Severe ulcerative herpes zoster

Andrew DK Nguyen and Gabriela Strey

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (2): 61

2015

Research

The treatment of nursing home-acquired pneumonia using a medically intensive Hospital in the Home service

Michael Montalto, Man Yee Chu, Irani Ratnam, Tim Spelman and Karin Thursky

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (11): 441-442 Free

News / NPS MedicineWise

Antibiotic resistance changing management of urinary tract infections in aged care

Lynn M Weekes

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 352 Free

Research

The extra resource burden of in-hospital falls: a cost of falls study

Renata T Morello, Anna L Barker, Jennifer J Watts, Terry Haines, Silva S Zavarsek, Keith D Hill, Caroline Brand, Catherine Sherrington, Rory Wolfe, Megan A Bohensky and Johannes U Stoelwinder

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 367 Free

Reflections

Philosophy for ageing

Alexander K Cohen

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 377

Research

Safety of opioid patch initiation in Australian residential aged care

Svetla Gadzhanova, Elizabeth E Roughead and Lisa G Pont

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (7): 298 Free