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Ethics and law

Doctors’ criminal law duty to report consensual sexual activity between adolescents: legal and clinical issues

Ben Mathews and Lena A Sanci

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 109-113.e1

Perspectives

Low value care is a health hazard that calls for patient empowerment

Ian A Scott, Adam G Elshaug and Melissa Fox

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 101-103.e1

Research

Psychotropic medicine prescribing and polypharmacy for people with dementia entering residential aged care: the influence of changing general practitioners

Heidi J Welberry, Louisa R Jorm, Andrea L Schaffer, Sebastiano Barbieri, Benjumin Hsu, Mark F Harris, John Hall and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 130-136 Free

Research letter

Prostate‐specific antigen testing of asymptomatic men in Australia: an observational study based on electronic general practice data

Guilherme S Franco, Rae‐Anne Hardie, Ling Li, Chisato Imai, Gorkem Sezgin, Julie Li, Adam McLeod, Christopher Pearce and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 228-229 Free

Perspectives

Communicating with patients and the public about COVID‐19 vaccine safety: recommendations from the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation

Julie Leask, Samantha J Carlson, Katie Attwell, Katrina K Clark, Jessica Kaufman, Catherine Hughes, Jane Frawley, Patrick Cashman, Holly Seal, Kerrie Wiley, Katarzyna Bolsewicz, Maryke Steffens and Margie H Danchin

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 9-12.e1 Free

Perspectives

Increasing health assessments for people living with an intellectual disability: lessons from experience of Indigenous‐specific health assessments

Jodie Bailie, Alison Laycock, Veronica Matthews and Ross S Bailie

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 16-18.e1 Free

Editorials

Improving access to community care for people with intellectual disability is needed to avert unnecessary hospitalisations

David I Ben‐Tovim and Kim Vien

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 25-26

Editorials

The road less travelled: supporting physicians to practice rurally

Jennifer A May and Anthony Scott

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 29-30 Free

Research letter

Limited clinical value of early repeat RT‐PCR testing for SARS‐CoV‐2

Eloise Williams, Katherine Bond and Deborah A Williamson

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 42-43 Free

Perspectives

When will opioid agonist therapy become a normal part of comprehensive health care?

Pallavi Prathivadi and Elizabeth A Sturgiss

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 504-505.e1

Perspectives

Time for universal hepatitis B screening for Australian adults

Nicole L Allard, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Lien Tran, Nafisa Yussf and Benjamin C Cowie

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 103-105.e1 Free

Research

Potentially preventable hospitalisations of people with intellectual disability in New South Wales

Janelle C Weise, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul and Julian N Trollor

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 31-36 Free

Editorials

The challenges of managing both chronic pain and opioid use in general practice

Hester Wilson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 416-417

Position statement

National Heart Foundation of Australia: position statement on coronary artery calcium scoring for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Australia

Garry LR Jennings, Ralph Audehm, Warrick Bishop, Clara K Chow, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Danny Liew and Sara M Linton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 434-439 Free

Perspectives

Introducing general practice enrolment in Australia: the devil is in the detail

Michael Wright and Roald Versteeg

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 400-402.e1

Perspectives

The impact of practice size and ownership on general practice care in Australia

Caroline Moel-Mandel and Vijaya Sundararajan

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 408-410.e1

Perspectives

Electronic alerts for early detection of acute kidney injury: considering their implementation in Australian hospitals

Anna C Bendall, Sven‐Jean Tan, Emily J See and Nigel D Toussaint

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 347-349.e1

Research

An electronic decision support‐based complex intervention to improve management of cardiovascular risk in primary health care: a cluster randomised trial (INTEGRATE)

Ruth Webster, Tim Usherwood, Rohina Joshi, Bandana Saini, Carol Armour, Sue Critchley, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Shane Galgey, Charlotte M Hespe, Stephen Jan, Ajay Karia, Baldeep Kaur, Ines Krass, Tracey‐Lea Laba, Qiang Li, Serigne Lo, David P Peiris, Christopher Reid, Anthony Rodgers, Louise Shiel, Jessica Strathdee, Nuria Zamora and Anushka Patel

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 420-427 Free

Perspectives

Should we be routinely co‐prescribing naloxone for patients on long term opioids?

Pallavi Prathivadi and Suzanne Nielsen

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 403-404.e1

Letters

Managing bereavement when a family member dies in an aged care home: the impact of COVID‐19

Margaret O’Connor and Bronwyn Wilson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 333-333.e1 Free

Letters

A surveillance clinic for children and adolescents with, or at risk of, hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes

Nicholas Leedman, Murray Princehorn, Nicholas Gottardo, Claire Franklin, Rebecca D'Souza and Catherine E Kiraly‐Borri

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 335-335.e1

Meta‐analysis

Surgical outcomes for people with serious mental illness are poorer than for other patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Kate E McBride, Michael J Solomon, Paul G Bannon, Nicholas Glozier and Daniel Steffens

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 379-385 Free

Perspectives

Screening for hydroxychloroquine retinopathy in Australia

Marisse T Sonido, Kristopher Rallah-Baker and Monisha Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 301-302.e1

Research

Absolute risk assessment for guiding cardiovascular risk management in a chest pain clinic

J Andrew Black, Julie A Campbell, Serena Parker, James E Sharman, Mark R Nelson, Petr Otahal, Garry Hamilton and Thomas H Marwick

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 266-271 Free

Guideline summary

Otitis media guidelines for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: summary of recommendations

Amanda J Leach, Peter S Morris, Harvey LC Coates, Sandra Nelson, Stephen J O'Leary, Peter C Richmond, Hasantha Gunasekera, Samantha Harkus, Kelvin Kong, Christopher G Brennan‐Jones, Sam Brophy‐Williams, Kathy Currie, Sumon K Das, David Isaacs, Katherine Jarosz, Deborah Lehmann, Jarod Pak, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Jennifer S Reath, Jessica Sommer and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 228-233 Free