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Perspectives

COVID‐19 and the Indo–Pacific: implications for resource‐limited emergency departments

Isobelle G Woodruff, Rob D Mitchell, Georgina Phillips, Deepak Sharma, Patrick Toito'ona, Krishantha Jayasekera, Khine Shwe Wah, Megan Cox and Gerard M O'Reilly

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 345-349.e1 Free

Research letters

Hospital policies on complementary medicine: a cross‐sectional survey of Australian cancer services

Jennifer Hunter, Suzanne Grant, Geoff P Delaney, Caroline A Smith, Kate Templeman and Jane Ussher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 474-475 Free

Research

Development and validation of a frailty index based on Australian Aged Care Assessment Program data

Jyoti Khadka, Renuka Visvanathan, Olga Theou, Max Moldovan, Azmeraw T Amare, Catherine Lang, Julie Ratcliffe, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 321-326 Free

Consensus statement

Cardiovascular disease and COVID‐19: Australian and New Zealand consensus statement

Sarah Zaman, Andrew I MacIsaac, Garry LR Jennings, Markus P Schlaich, Sally C Inglis, Ruth Arnold, Saurabh Kumar, Liza Thomas, Sudhir Wahi, Sidney Lo, Carolyn Naismith, Stephen J Duffy, Stephen J Nicholls, Andrew Newcomb, Aubrey A Almeida, Selwyn Wong, Mayanna Lund, Derek P Chew, Leonard Kritharides, Clara K Chow and Ravinay Bhindi

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 182-187 Free

Perspectives

“Now we say Black Lives Matter but … the fact of the matter is, we just Black matter to them”1

Chelsea J Bond, Lisa J Whop, David Singh and Helena Kajlich

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (6): 248-250.e1 Free

Research

The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN‐ACC): a new casemix classification for residential aged care

Kathy Eagar, Rob Gordon, Milena F Snoek, Carol Loggie, Anita Westera, Peter David Samsa and Conrad Kobel

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 359-363 Free

Research

Sexual misconduct by health professionals in Australia, 2011–2016: a retrospective analysis of notifications to health regulators

Marie M Bismark, David M Studdert, Katinka Morton, Ron Paterson, Matthew J Spittal and Yamna Taouk

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (5): 218-224 Free

Letters

The National Disability Insurance Scheme and COVID‐19: a collision course

Gemma Carey

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 141-141.e1 Free

Letters

Unintended consequences of using real time prescription monitoring systems

Sarah Haines, Michael Savic, Louisa Picco, Suzanne Nielsen and Adrian Carter

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 142-142.e1

Research letters

Improving communication with Aboriginal hospital inpatients: a quasi‐experimental interventional study

The Communicate Study group*

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 180-181 Free

Systematic review

Recruiting and retaining general practitioners in rural practice: systematic review and meta‐analysis of rural pipeline effects

Jessica Ogden, Scott Preston, Riitta L Partanen, Remo Ostini and Peter Coxeter

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (5): 228-236 Free

Perspectives

Cancer survivorship care at the time of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Bogda Koczwara

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 107-108.e1 Free

Editorials

The role of cost‐effectiveness analyses in investment decision making by primary health networks

Sally Hall Dykgraaf and Amanda Barnard

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 72-73

Editorials

Critically ill Indigenous Australians and mortality: a complex story

Paul J Secombe, Alex Brown, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 13-14 Free

Perspectives

COVID‐19: planning for the aftermath to manage the aftershocks

Steven G Faux, Kathy Eagar, Ian D Cameron and Christopher J Poulos

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 60-61.e1 Free

Research

A computer‐guided quality improvement tool for primary health care: cost‐effectiveness analysis based on TORPEDO trial data

Bindu Patel, David P Peiris, Anushka Patel, Stephen Jan, Mark F Harris, Tim Usherwood, Kathryn Panaretto and Thomas Lung

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 73-78 Free

Perspectives

Challenges of diabetes management during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Emma S Scott, Alicia J Jenkins and Gregory R Fulcher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 56-57.e1 Free

Perspectives

Location and primary health care reform

Gemma C Ma and Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 111-113.e1

Perspectives

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

Suzanne M Dyer, Madeline Valeri, Nimita Arora, Dominic Tilden and Maria Crotty

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 156-157.e1 Free

Perspectives

Opening the lines of communication: towards shared decision making and improved end‐of‐life care in the Top End

Emma Spencer and Eswaran Waran

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 10-11.e1 Free

Letters

The impact of Victoria's real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs

Dagnachew M Fetene, Peter Higgs, Suzanne Nielsen, Filip Djordjevic and Paul Dietze

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 141-141.e1

Perspectives

Reducing stillbirth safely in Australia

Roshan Selvaratnam, Mary‐Ann Davey and Euan M Wallace

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 9-9.e1

Editorial

Will online symptom checkers improve health care in Australia?

Adam G Dunn

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 512-513

Research

Long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians after hospital intensive care

William G Mitchell, Adam Deane, Alex Brown, Shailesh Bihari, Hao Wong, Rajaram Ramadoss and Mark Finnis

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 16-21 Free

Perspectives

The vitamin D testing rate is again rising, despite new MBS testing criteria

Louisa Gordon, Mary Waterhouse, Ian R Reid and Rachel E Neale

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 155-155.e1