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Factors that affect the provision of medical abortion services in Australian primary care: a mixed methods systematic review
Financial and structural support is needed for the geographic decentralisation of medical abortion training and services
Greta Skahill · Mridula Shankar
Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) 2025 consensus recommendations for the screening, diagnosis and classification of gestational diabetes
Updated recommendations for the screening, diagnosis and classification of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy
Arianne Sweeting · Matthew JL Hare · Susan J Jersey · Alexis L Shub · Julia Zinga · Cecily Foged · Rosemary M Hall · Tang Wong · David Simmons
The transformative potential of remote patient monitoring in health care
Remote patient monitoring is a beacon of resilience and innovation in modern medicine
Tuan Duong · Wenyong Wang · Clair Sullivan
Remote patient monitoring for managing acute COVID‐19, and mortality and hospital use in Sydney, New South Wales, 2021–22: a retrospective observational cohort study
Community remote monitoring is feasible and safe, and could be expanded to managing other medical conditions
Myong Gyu Kim · Phuong Thao Phan · Cambell McMaster · Praveen Indraratna · Jennifer Yu · Allison Martin · Rebecca Pinheiro · Lisa Altman · Guenter Schreier · Benjamin Kwan · Pamela Konecny · Jeffrey J Post · Nigel Lovell · Sze‐Yuan Ooi · Kristen Overton
The intersection of rurality and dementia prevalence in Australia for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non‐Indigenous peoples
Geographic considerations are of crucial significance in dementia epidemiology, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Antonia J Clarke · Marwan Ahmed · Judith M Katzenellenbogen · John Towney (Wiradjuri) · Anna H Balabanski · Adrienne Withall (Dharawal Yuin) · Kylie Radford · Amy Brodtmann
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 · Angela Dew
Shifting focus to adolescent wellbeing and inclusive participation in the digital age
Governance of digital technologies has fallen behind the pace of technological innovation and the evidence base. A holistic approach to digital health that promotes adolescent wellbeing is essential
with the Health Advisory Panel for Youth at the University of Sydney (HAPYUS)
What is needed to improve young people's access to sexual health care through primary care?
Strengthening the primary care system will assist health care practitioners with the time and resources to provide good sexual health care to young people
Helen Bittleston · Meredith Temple‐Smith
Severe hypoglycaemia secondary to chronic opioid‐induced hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis suppression: an under‐recognised phenomenon
A 49-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus was hospitalised with critical hypoglycaemia
Michael Do · Annabelle G Hayes · Malgorzata M Brzozowska
I am a Civil War
This is an article written by a doctor about their experience of navigating seronegative immune-mediated necrotising myositis
Jennifer G Mowbray
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
The Australian voluntary patient enrolment scheme should be continuously evaluated to assess levels of engagement by patients and general practices
Shona M Bates · Jialing Lin · Luke Allen · Michael Wright · Michael Kidd
Antidepressant prescribing in Australian primary care: time to reevaluate
Given limited benefit in mild to moderate mental illness, limited evidence demonstrating benefit and safety with long term antidepressant therapy, and the difficulties that people can experience stopping antidepressants, better decision support and informed consent for starting antidepressants are needed
Katharine A Wallis · Anna King · Joanna Moncrieff
2024 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Healthy Bones Australia guideline for osteoporosis management and fracture prevention in postmenopausal women and men over 50 years of age
Poor bone health is highly treatable with appropriate widely available lifestyle and dietary measures and pharmacological agents; the updated guideline is an evidence-based pragmatic tool to assist general practitioners in the day-to-day care of such patients in partnership with bone specialists
Peter Wong · Weiwen Chen · Dan Ewald · Christian Girgis · Morton Rawlin · John Tsingos · Justine Waters
Geographic remoteness‐based differences in in‐hospital mortality among people admitted to NSW public hospitals with heart failure, 2002–21: a retrospective observational cohort study
Targeted programs could improve outcomes for people in regional and remote Australia with heart failure
Imants Rubenis · Gregory Harvey · Karice Hyun · Vincent Chow · Leonard Kritharides · Andrew P Sindone · David B Brieger · Austin CC Ng
Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave
Mulu Woldegiorgis · Rosemary J Korda · Paul V Effler
Tick tock: the travelling time bomb
A 62-year-old man from Connecticut, USA, presented to the emergency department with a six-day history of a febrile illness featuring headache, fatigue, malaise and anorexia
Matthew AK Martin · Maxwell E Olenski
A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm
Hospital-in-the-home (HITH) models of care provide sustainable, patient-centred, value-based care; but how can we better recognise deteriorating HITH patients?
Mya Cubitt · Seok Lim
Decentralised COVID‐19 molecular point‐of‐care testing: lessons from implementing a primary care‐based network in remote Australian communities
The First Nations COVID-19 molecular point-of-care (POC) testing program was part of the Australian pandemic response, ensuring equitable testing access and minimising diagnosis delays. To inform future pandemic preparedness, we reviewed the POC framework to provide key recommendations.
Belinda Hengel · Rebecca J Guy · Dawn Casey · Lorraine Anderson · Kirsty Smith · Kelly Andrewartha · Tanya D Applegate · Amit Saha · Philip Cunningham · Lucas DeToca · William D Rawlinson · Marianne Martinello · Annie Tangey · Prital Patel · Mark DS Shephard · Susan Matthews · Louise Causer
Consideration of sex and gender: an analysis of Australian clinical guidelines
Guideline developers should consider the role of sex and gender to enable equity and inclusiveness in health care
Maggie Kirkman · Tomoko Honda · Steve J McDonald · Sally Green · Karen Walker‐Bone · Ingrid Winship · Jane R W Fisher
Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model
The Primary Care Spend model provides a more nuanced analysis of expenditure for primary health care than routine health expenditure reports
Michael Wright · Shona Bates · Andrew W Bazemore · Michael R Kidd
Classification of chronic kidney disease in older Australian adults by the CKD‐EPI 2009 and 2021 equations: secondary analysis of ASPREE study data
The new equation would substantially reduce the estimated prevalence of disease in older, generally healthy adults, with implications for treatment planning
Elisa K Bongetti · Rory Wolfe · James B Wetmore · Anne M Murray · Robyn L Woods · Michelle A Fravel · Mark R Nelson · Nigel P Stocks · Suzanne G Orchard · Kevan R Polkinghorne
Is the term bulk‐billing still relevant in today's landscape of health policy reform?
Bulk-billing has been a term associated with the success of Medicare, but no longer provides an agreed or meaningful estimate of access to health services
Michael Wright · May Chin
The Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a hybrid virtual model of care designed to improve health access and outcomes in rural and remote communities
The VRGS has an important role in providing continuous medical coverage to complement the local visiting medical officer workforce in rural and remote hospitals
Shannon Nott · Georgia Wingfield · Amelia Haigh · Georgina M Luscombe · Anna E Thompson · Emily Saurman · Tim Shaw · Amy Von Huben · Kirsten Howard · Andrew Wilson
Health service access and quality of care provided by the Western NSW Local Health District Virtual Rural Generalist Service: a retrospective analysis of linked administrative data
The VRGS can complement and enhance the delivery of medical care in rural and remote communities with limited medical services
Georgina M Luscombe · Andrew Wilson · Amanda J Ampt · Amy Von Huben · Kirsten Howard · Clare Coleman · Georgia Wingfield · Shannon Nott
Clinician experiences of a hybrid virtual medical service supporting rural and remote hospitals: a qualitative study
The Virtual Rural Generalist Service model effectively fills medical service gaps and makes rural medical and nursing positions more attractive and sustainable
Anna E Thompson · Emily Saurman · Shannon Nott · Andrew Wilson · Tim Shaw