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General medicine
Restructuring primary health care in Australia
When appropriately resourced, medical homes can deliver the system-wide benefits of truly integrated primary care
John M Dwyer · Stephen J Duckett
Clinical quality registries have the potential to drive improvements in the appropriateness of care
The effectiveness of clinical quality registries to monitor and benchmark patient outcomes is well established
Nick Wilcox · John J McNeil
Factors associated with quality of care for patients with pancreatic cancer in Australia
Location of residence may negatively influence the quality of care received by patients with pancreatic cancer
Elizabeth A Burmeister · Dianne L O'Connell · Susan J Jordan · David Goldstein · Neil Merrett · David K Wyld · Vanessa L Beesley · Helen M Gooden · Monika Janda · Rachel E Neale
Bunbury to Bundaberg, Darwin to Dover: establishing a successful Regional Participation Program for the ENDIA type 1 diabetes cohort study
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Megan Ann Sabine Penno · Rebecca Louise Thomson · Jennifer J Couper
Health care homes: lessons from the Diabetes Care Project
Better care coordination, e-health tools and funding systems are essential for chronic disease management
Tim Fountaine · Christine C Bennett
After-hours medical deputising services for older people
Older people need GPs who know them well
C Dimity Pond
After-hours medical deputising services: patterns of use by older people
Bookings of GPs have increased, particularly for people in residential aged care facilities
Angela Joe · Judy A Lowthian · Marianne Shearer · Lyle R Turner · Bianca Brijnath · Christopher Pearce · Colette Browning · Danielle Mazza
Major trauma mortality in rural and metropolitan NSW, 2009–2014: a retrospective analysis of trauma registry data
Changes to trauma systems may be benefiting patients in rural and regional NSW
Michael M Dinh · Kate Curtis · Rebecca J Mitchell · Kendall J Bein · Zsolt J Balogh · Ian Seppelt · Colin Deans · Rebecca Ivers · Saartje Berendsen Russell · Oran Rigby
Central retinal venous pulsations
Diagnosing raised intracranial pressure through ophthalmoscopic examination
Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair · Christine Y Chen · William Browne · Daniel McKay
Barrett’s oesophagus: epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical management
Cancer progression risks are lower than previously reported but pose a challenge for clinical management
David C Whiteman · Bradley J Kendall
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in North Queensland: the paediatric experience
A potentially fatal disease associated with warm, non-chlorinated water in rural areas
Claire L Nicholls · Fiona Parsonson · Lawrence EK Gray · Adele Heyer · Steven Donohue · Greg Wiseman · Robert Norton
Eliciting and responding to patient histories of abuse and trauma: challenges for medical education
Toward trauma-informed medical education
Gabrielle Matta · Robyn E Woodward-Kron · Sandra Petty · Michael R Salzberg
Teaching approaches in medicine made easier
Teaching professional attitudes and basic clinical skills to medical students: a practical guide
Zsuzsoka Kecskes
Richard Nesbit Evans, MB BS, MRCP(UK), FAFOM
MBBS, MRCP(UK), FAFOM
Eric N Evans · Layli J Evans · James B Evans
Rural recruitment and training promotes rural practice by GPs, but is it enough to retain them?
Challenges to keeping general practitioners in the bush remain
Geetha Ranmuthugala
Vocational training of general practitioners in rural locations is critical for the Australian rural medical workforce
There are strong associations between rural GP vocational training location and subsequent rural practice location
Matthew R McGrail · Deborah J Russell · David G Campbell
Progress in the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia: 2016
Significant advances have been made, but optimising models of care remains a major challenge
Damon A Bell · Gerald F Watts
General medicine Indigenous outreach registrar training in rural Queensland
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Paul Jauncey · Scott McKenzie · Rohan Corpus · Kwun M Fong · Darren L Walters
The Paleo diet and diabetes
Studies are inconclusive about the benefits of the Paleo diet in patients with type 2 diabetes
Sofianos Andrikopoulos
Pitting and non-pitting oedema
The distinction is essential to determine aetiology and treatment
Elizabeth Whiting · Madeline E McCready
