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Health services administration

Rural and Remote Health

Frequent users of the Royal Flying Doctor Service primary clinic and aeromedical services in remote New South Wales: a quality study

David L Garne, David A Perkins, Frances T Boreland and David M Lyle

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 602-604 Free

Rural and Remote Health

Geriatric ward rounds by video conference: a solution for rural hospitals

Leonard C Gray, Olivia R Wright, Alison J Cutler, Paul A Scuffham and Richard Wootton

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 605-608 Free

Letters

Why health reform?

George Larcos

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 583-584

Editorials

Optimising the therapeutic use of oxygen in Australia

Christine F McDonald and Alan J Crockett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 526-527

Corrections

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

Shu Q Li, Natalie J Gray, Steve L Guthridge and Sabine L M Pircher

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 1 Free

Conference report

Grasping the initiative in health policy research and reform

James Gillespie, Beverley Essue, Stephen R Leeder and Anne Marie T Thow

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 528-529

Research

A classification of hospital-acquired diagnoses for use with routine hospital data

Terri J Jackson, Jude L Michel, Rosemary F Roberts, Christine M Jorm and John G Wakefield

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 544-548 Free

Health care

Variability in the rate of prescription and cost of domiciliary oxygen therapy in Australia

John G Serginson, Ian A Yang, John G Armstrong, David M Cooper, Anthony M Matthiesson, Stephen C Morrison, Judy M Gair, Barbara Cooper and Paul V Zimmerman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 549-553 Free

Viewpoint

Whole-of-hospital response to admission access block: the need for a clinical revolution

E Haydn Walters and David J Dawson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 561-563 Free

Viewpoint

The decline of clinical contact in medicine

Bill Lancashire, Craig T Hore and Robert G Fassett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 508-510 Free

Health care

Outcomes of a cystic fibrosis carrier testing clinic for couples

Louise M Christie, Angela J Ingrey, Gillian M Turner, Anne L Proos and Gloria E Watts

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 499-501 Free

Pandemic (H1N1)2009

Impact of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza on critical care capacity in Victoria

Martin E Lum, Alison J McMillan, Chris W Brook, Rosemary Lester and Leonard S Piers

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (9): 502-506 Free

Health care reform

Does the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission have a real answer for public hospitals?

David G Penington

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 446-447

Supplement

A statewide approach to systematising hand hygiene behaviour in hospitals: Clean hands save lives, Part I

Annette C Pantle, Kimberley R Fitzpatrick, Mary-Louise McLaws and Clifford F Hughes

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): S8 Free

Health care reform

The NHHRC final report: view from the hospital sector

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 450-453 Free

Supplement

Culture change for hand hygiene: Clean hands save lives, Part II

Kimberley R Fitzpatrick, Annette C Pantle, Mary-Louise McLaws and Clifford F Hughes

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): S13 Free

Viewpoint

National registration legislative proposals need more work and more time

Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 464-465 Free

Supplement

Improvements in hand hygiene across New South Wales public hospitals: Clean hands save lives, Part III

Mary-Louise McLaws, Annette C Pantle, Kimberley R Fitzpatrick and Clifford F Hughes

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): S18 Free

Supplement

More than hand hygiene is needed to affect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical indicator rates: Clean hands save lives, Part IV

Mary-Louise McLaws, Annette C Pantle, Kimberley R Fitzpatrick and Clifford F Hughes

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): S26 Free

Editorials

Management of waiting lists needs sound data

Andrea J Curtis, Johannes U Stoelwinder and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 423-424

Doctors’ health

The health and wellbeing of junior doctors: insights from a national survey

Alexandra L Markwell and Zoe Wainer

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): 441-444 Free

Supplement

Statewide hand hygiene improvement: embarking on a crusade

Didier Pittet

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (8): S5-S7 Free

Health care reform

National health reform: it’s time for a decision

Ian B Hickie

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 382-383

Letters

Making cars and making health care: a critical review

Susan Ieraci

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 414-415

Health care reform

A healthier future for all Australians: an overview of the final report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

Christine C Bennett

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 383-387 Free