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General medicine
Symptomatic cancer diagnosis in general practice: a critical perspective of current guidelines and risk assessment tools
Enhancing symptomatic cancer diagnosis requires GP-appropriate guidelines and tools that reflect a generalist approach to diagnosis
Brent Venning · Jon D Emery
The Health4Life e‐health intervention for modifying lifestyle risk behaviours of adolescents: secondary outcomes of a cluster randomised controlled trial
School-based e-health multiple health behaviour change interventions need effective engagement strategies to maximise their effectiveness
Siobhan O'Dean · Matthew Sunderland · Nicola Newton · Lauren Gardner · Maree Teesson · Cath Chapman · Louise Thornton · Tim Slade · Leanne Hides · Nyanda McBride · Frances J Kay‐Lambkin · Steve J Allsop · David Lubans · Belinda Parmenter · Katherine Mills · Bonnie Spring · Bridie Osman · Rhiannon Ellem · Scarlett Smout · Karrah McCann · Emily Hunter · Amra Catakovic · Katrina Champion
Lifestyle advice from general practitioners and changes in health‐related behaviour in Australia: secondary analysis of 2020–21 National Health Survey data
Interventions that prioritise effective lifestyle advice from general practitioners are needed to combat major risk factors for chronic medical conditions
Loai Albarqouni · Hannah Greenwood · Caroline Dowsett · Paul P Glasziou
2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk
The 2023 Australian CVD guideline provides a pathway for early detection, clinical assessment and management of CVD risk
Mark R Nelson · Emily Banks · Alex Brown · Clara K Chow · David P Peiris · Nigel P Stocks · Rebecca Davies AO · Natalie Raffoul · Lisa Kalman · Emily Bradburn · Garry Jennings
Towards national paediatric clinical practice guidelines
We are almost at the point of having truly national paediatric guidelines in Australia
Mike Starr
Minimising harm: avoiding intubation for psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures
A 25-year-old man presented to the emergency department of a tertiary hospital following a seizure
Stephen Bacchi · Santosh Verghese · Mark Slee
Mainstreaming genomic testing: pre‐test counselling and informed consent
Genomic tests present additional challenges compared with other pathological investigations
Michaela Cormack · Kathryn B Irving · Fiona Cunningham · Andrew P Fennell
Artificial intelligence for surgical services in Australia and New Zealand: opportunities, challenges and recommendations
Artificial intelligence is being rapidly taken up by health care services, presenting opportunities and challenges for its use in the surgical services of Australia and New Zealand
Joshua G Kovoor · Stephen Bacchi · Prakriti Sharma · Srishti Sharma · Medhir Kumawat · Brandon Stretton · Aashray K Gupta · WengOnn Chan · Amal Abou‐Hamden · Guy J Maddern
Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative
Amith Shetty · Jean‐Frederic Levesque · Walid Jammal
Screening and prevention of ovarian cancer
Despite advances in treatment, ovarian cancer remains a lethal disease which lacks an established screening program, and surgical prevention remains the gold standard for women at increased risk
Michail Sideris · Usha Menon · Ranjit Manchanda
Equitable access to abortion care is still not a reality in Australia
Despite significant strides in improving access to this essential service, more is needed
Asvini K Subasinghe · Seema Deb
The views of parents and carers on managing acute otitis media in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: a qualitative study
Shared decision making informed by the experience of parents and carers could reduce antibiotic use for managing acute otitis media
Jennifer S Reath · Sarah O'Brien · Letitia Campbell · Hasantha Gunasekera · Claudette A Tyson · Deborah A Askew · Wendy Hu · Tim Usherwood · Kelvin Kong · Peter Morris · Amanda J Leach · Robyn Walsh · Penelope A Abbott
Why clinical artificial intelligence is (almost) non‐existent in Australian hospitals and how to fix it
Why is the clinical AI uptake in Australian hospitals very low compared with overseas and how do we fix it?
Anton van der Vegt · Victoria Campbell · Guido Zuccon
Too much versus too little: looking for the “sweet spot” in optimal use of diagnostic investigations
A balance must be found between underuse and overuse of pathology and radiology investigations
Ian A Scott · Carmel Crock · Matthew Twining
Bronchiectasis among Indigenous adults in the Top End of the Northern Territory, 2011–2020: a retrospective cohort study
Characterising the epidemiology of bronchiectasis in Indigenous Australia is crucial for its accurate diagnosis and effective management
Claire Gibbs · Timothy Howarth · Adriana Ticoalu · Winnie Chen · Payi L Ford · Asanga Abeyaratne · Lata Jayaram · Gabrielle McCallum · Subash S Heraganahally
Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in Australia: a retrospective real world cohort study
ICI therapy could benefit a broader range of people with advanced CSCC than are eligible for clinical trials
Luke S McLean · Annette M Lim · Mathias Bressel · Jenny Lee · Rahul Ladwa · Alexander D Guminski · Brett Hughes · Samantha Bowyer · Karen Briscoe · Samuel Harris · Craig Kukard · Rob Zielinski · Muhammad Alamgeer · Matteo Carlino · Jeremy Mo · John J Park · Muhammad A Khattak · Fiona Day · Danny Rischin
The Alfred Health post‐COVID‐19 service, Melbourne, 2020–2022: an observational cohort study
Our outpatient triage model can efficiently facilitate care for people with persistent symptoms after COVID-19
Anne E Holland · Daniel Fineberg · Tunya Marceau · Melissa Chong · Jessica Beaman · Lisa Wilson · Jo‐Anne Buchanan · Jacqueline Uren · Simone Dal Corso · Natasha A Lannin · Mariana Hoffman · Christie R Mellerick · Kathya Fernando · Janet Bondarenko
Clinical outcomes and health care costs of transferring rural Western Australians for invasive coronary angiography, and a cost‐effective alternative care model
Nick S R Lan · Mikhail Alexander · Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid
The NDIS at ten years: designing an equitable scheme for the next decade
Jodie Bailie · George Disney · Claire Quilliam · Anne M Kavanagh
Back pain in an Australian farmer: an unusual case of cryptococcal osteomyelitis
A 53-year-old Indigenous male farmer presented with several weeks of fluctuating lumbar back pain while physically supporting an older family member
Michael D Riceman · Caitlyn Sun · John Pierides · Jennifer Catford · Renjy Nelson · Anushia Ashokan
COVID‐19 rapid antigen tests approved for self‐testing in Australia: published diagnostic test accuracy studies and manufacturer‐supplied information. A systematic review
The sensitivity of RATs used for self-testing was lower than reported by manufacturers, increasing the risk of false negative results
Katy JL Bell · Yuyang Li · Ellie Medcalf · Deonna Ackermann
