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For debate

Health care-associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections: a clinical quality indicator for all hospitals

Peter J Collignon, Irene J Wilkinson, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, M Lindsay Grayson and R Michael Whitby

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (8): 404-406 Free

Research

The psychological health of sole mothers in Australia

Deborah Loxton, Rosemary Mooney and Anne F Young

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 265-268 Free

Health care

The efficacy of a nurse-led preoperative cataract assessment and postoperative care clinic

Bradley J Kirkwood, Konrad Pesudovs, Paul Latimer and Douglas J Coster

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 278-281 Free

Research enterprise

Evaluation of NHMRC funded research completed in 1992, 1997 and 2003: gains in knowledge, health and wealth

Bronwyn A Kingwell, Gary P Anderson, Meg E Morris, Stephen J Duckett, Elizabeth A Hoole, Jan Rothwell-Short, Lisa R Jackson-Pulver, Levon M Khachigian, David M Roder and Andrew J Wilson, for the National Health and Medical Research Council Evaluations and Outcomes Working Committee

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): 282-286 Free

Editorials

Hospital overcrowding: a threat to patient safety?

Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 203-204

Research

Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding

Drew B Richardson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 213-216 Free

Letters

Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes

Russell Stitz, Michael R Kidd, Liz M Kenny and Anne M Howard

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 251

Letters

What exactly is society getting for its research dollars?

Roslyn G Poulos and Anthony B Zwi

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 252-253

Corrections

Hospital in the home: what next?

Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): 237

Health care

Morning report: an Australian experience

Robert G Fassett and Steven J Bollipo

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 159-161 Free

Health care

Skin cancer clinics in Australia: workload profile and performance indicators from an analysis of billing data

David Wilkinson, Deborah A Askew and Anthony Dixon

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 162-164 Free

Letters

The Bundaberg hospital scandal: the need for reform in Queensland and beyond

Paul D Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (4): 199-200

Letters

The price of health care for Medicare-ineligible asylum seekers in the community

Katina Kardamanidis and Bruce Armstrong

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 140-141

Letters

Hospital in the home: what next?

Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 141-142

Letters

Digesting the health sandwich

Stephen F Wilson and Peter McGeorge

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 144

Conference report

Health Workforce Innovation Conference

Peter M Brooks and Niki Ellis

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (3): 105-106

Viewpoint

What do we know about men’s help-seeking and health service use?

James A Smith, Annette Braunack-Mayer and Gary Wittert

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 81-83 Free

Correction

Correction: The use of cusum analysis in the early detection and management of hospital bed occupancy crises

Claire M Burns, Cameron J Bennett, Colin T Myers and Michael Ward

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (2): 67

Research enterprise

Predicting commercial success for Australian medical inventions patented in the United States: a cross sectional survey of Australian inventors

Eugen Mattes, Michael C Stacey and Dora Marinova

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 33-38 Free

Letters

Hospitalisation and costs attributable to tobacco smoking in Australia: 2001–2002

Susan F Hurley

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 45

Editorials

A new EPOC in Australian health research

Russell L Gruen, Heather Buchan, Jan Davies, Alain Mayhew and Jeremy M Grimshaw

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (1): 4-5

History

Royal Newcastle Hospital: the passing of an icon

John M Duggan and Peter I A Hendry

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 642-645 Free

The profession

The medical colleges in Australia: besieged but bearing up

Kerrie A Lawson, Ann T Gregory and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 646-651

Christmas offerings

Effect of ambulance diversion on patient mortality: how access block can save your life

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 672-673

Christmas offerings

Weather patients will come?

Daniel K B Ou, The-Phung To and David McD Taylor

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (11): 675-677 Free