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Health services administration

Letter to the Editor

Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in public health research and practice?

Ikram Abdi, Abela Mahimbo and Julie Leask

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 169-169 Free

Research

The prevalence of and variation in indicators of the quality and safety of long term aged care in Australia, 2019: a cross‐sectional population‐based study

Tesfahun C Eshetie, Gillian E Caughey, Catherine Lang, Olivia Ryan, Renuka Visvanathan, Craig Whitehead, Keith Evans, Janet K Sluggett, Jyoti Khadka, Carolyn Dawkins, Helena Williams, Miranda Starke, Sara Blunt, Anne Liddell, Megan Corlis, Anna Sheppeard, Penelope Lello, Marilyn Thien, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 189-196 Free

Research

Prescription opioid supply‐restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis

Suzanne Nielsen, Louisa Picco, Bosco Rowland, Nadine E Andrew, Taya A Collyer, Samanta Lalic, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher Pearce, J Simon Bell, Dan I Lubman and Ting Xia

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 134-140 Free

Research

Health and economic benefits of improving pre‐hospital identification of stroke in Australian women: a modelling study

Thomas Gadsden, Lei Si, Emily R Atkins, Cheryl Carcel, Xia Wang, Stephen Jan, Mark Woodward and Laura E Downey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 141-148 Free

Perspective

A salute to ten years of Australian Clinical Care Standards: celebrations and challenges

Alice L Bhasale, Carolyn Hullick, Maria B Sukkar and Anne Duggan

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (4): 177-179 Free

Research

Motivations, barriers and enablers for medical and forensic examiners in New South Wales sexual assault services: a qualitative interview study

Natalie Edmiston, Sam Sperring, Rosalie Power, Samantha Ryan, Kathryn Evans, Jane Ussher and Ellie Freedman

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 85-91 Free

Ethics and law

Clinicians’ discretion to contact patients’ at‐risk relatives about their genetic risk: new guidance from Australia's privacy regulator provides timely clarification

Jane Tiller and Margaret FA Otlowski

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (3): 123-126 Free

Research

Bone health perspectives among Indigenous people: a qualitative study

Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta), Karan P Singh, Vanessa Gan, Brooke Conley (Ngiyampaa), Jessica Bravo, Nigel Smith (Weilwan), April Clarke (Eastern Maar, Kirrae Whurrung, Djap Wurrung), Jackson Baker, Louise J Maple‐Brown, Robin M Daly, Jennifer Browne, Jesse Zanker, Cat Shore‐Lorenti, David Scott, Peter R Ebeling and Ayse Zengin

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 92-100 Free

Perspective

Decolonising primary health care practice: a definition and its importance

Tamara J Mackean, Kim O'Donnell, Juanita Sherwood, Shane D'Angelo, Madison Shakespeare, Cleone Wellington, Toby Freeman, Anna M Ziersch, Matt Fisher, Deborah A Askew, Judith M Dwyer, Annette J Browne and Fran Baum AO

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 9-12 Free

Perspective

Core components of a best practice First Nations cancer coordinator role

Mollie C Wilson, Marissa Mulcahy, Jennifer Philip, Brian H Le and Gail Garvey

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 19-22 Free

Research

Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study

Stephen P McDonald AM, Katie Cundale, Christopher E Davies, Kelli Karrikarringka Owen (Kaurna, Nharangga, and Ngarrindjeri), Kerry Dole, Feruza Kholmurodova, Matilda D’Antoine (Paakantyi) and Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (1): 46-53 Free

Systematic review

Factors that affect the provision of medical abortion services in Australian primary care: a mixed methods systematic review

Greta Skahill and Mridula Shankar

Med J Aust 2025; 223 (2): 101-110 Free

Editorial

The transformative potential of remote patient monitoring in health care

Tuan Duong, Wenyong Wang and Clair Sullivan

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 546-547 Free

Editorial

Optimising the impact of smartphone‐activated volunteer responder programs on out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest outcomes by increasing responder density

Alan Morrison and Paul Simpson

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 502-503 Free

Letter to the editor

Social inequalities in eligibility rates and use of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme, 2016–22: an administrative data analysis

Claire Quilliam, Robyn McNeil, Luke Wakely and Angela Dew

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 529-530 Free

Letter to the editor

Social inequalities in eligibility rates and use of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme, 2016–22: an administrative data analysis

George Disney, Peter Summers and Yi Yang

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 530-530 Free

Scoping review

Urgent care centres for reducing the demand on emergency departments: a scoping review of published quantitative and qualitative studies

Feby Savira, Madison Frith, Clarissa J Aditya, Sean Randall, Naomi White, Andrew Giddy, Lauren Spark, Jamie Swann and Suzanne Robinson

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 450-461 Free

Scoping review

The impact of patient enrolment in primary care on continuity and quality of care around the world, 2014–2024, and lessons for Australia: a scoping review

Shona M Bates, Jialing Lin, Luke Allen, Michael Wright and Michael Kidd

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 462-471 Free

Perspective

What is needed to improve young people's access to sexual health care through primary care?

Helen Bittleston and Meredith Temple‐Smith

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 426-428 Free

Editorial

Preventing intimate partner violence in Australia: unlocking the primary prevention potential of general practice

Georgina Sutherland and Karen Block

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 438-439 Free

Perspective

Exploring the role of urine drug screening in opioid agonist therapy

Grace FitzGerald, Sione Crawford, Adrian J Dunlop, Jon Cook, Dean Membrey, Paul MacCartney and Thileepan Naren

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 381-383 Free

Research

The prevalence of intimate partner violence in Australia: a national survey

Ben Mathews, Kelsey L Hegarty, Harriet L MacMillan, Monica Madzoska, Holly E Erskine, Rosana Pacella, James G Scott, Hannah Thomas, Franziska Meinck, Daryl Higgins, David M Lawrence, Divna Haslam, Sara Roetman, Eva Malacova and Timothy Cubitt

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 440-448 Free

Research

The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025–30: a modelling study

Farah Houdroge, Samantha Colledge‐Frisby, Nadine Kronfli, Rebecca J Winter, Joanne Carson, Mark Stoove and Nick Scott

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 396-402 Free

Research letter

The oral health care needs of people living in residential aged care, Australia, 2016–20: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Gillian E Caughey, Tracy Air, Miia Rahja and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (6): 318-320 Free

Perspective

The potential of maternal and child health service data in Australia: how lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic can accelerate data‐informed decision making

Ashleigh Shipton, Meredith O'Connor, Melissa Wake, Sharon Goldfeld, Helen Lees, Catina Adams, Kristina Edvardsson, Leesa Hooker, Jatender Mohal, Rhiannon M Pilkington and Fiona K Mensah

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 377-380 Free