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Barriers, facilitators and next steps for sustaining and scaling virtual hospital services in Australia: a qualitative descriptive study
As virtual hospital services become more mainstream, gaps in evidence and practice must be addressed by future research and policy changes to maximise the benefits
Nicki Newton · Kavisha Shah · Miranda Shaw · Emma Charlston · Melissa T Baysari · Angus Ritchie · Chenyao Yu · Adam Johnston · Jagdev Singh · Meredith Makeham · Sarah Norris · Liliana Laranjo · Clara K Chow · Tim Shaw
A Northern Territory‐trained health workforce is required to meet its context‐specific disease burden and health care needs
One solution would be to locally educate, recruit, and retain a health workforce suitable for the unique needs of this region
Dominic Upton · Varunika Ruwanpura
Defining a core set of research and development priorities for virtual care in the post‐pandemic environment: a call to action
Demonstrating the value of virtual care models while also highlighting improvements in health outcomes will future-proof virtual care, enabling it to continue to address broader challenges of health care delivery
Kavisha Shah · Nicki Newton · Emma Charlston · Miranda Shaw · Jagdev Singh · Adam Johnston · Owen Hutchings · Chenyao Yu · Pearl Wang · Aaron Jones · Angus Ritchie · Rebecca Davis · Fiona Robinson · Jennifer A Alison · Melissa T Baysari · Meredith Makeham · Sarah Norris · Liliana Laranjo · Emma Nicholls · Clara K Chow · Tim Shaw
The New South Wales Pharmacy Trial for herpes zoster: on the nose?
Christian P Pappas · Timothy R Holmes · Minas T Coroneo
Participation of Indigenous children and young people to improve health and wellbeing
Society must not only uphold Indigenous children and young people’s rights, but also value their strengths and the expertise they hold about their own lives
Jordan Cory (Kamilaroi) · Hope Kuchel (Barkindji) · Bonnie Dukakis (Gunditjmara) · Rhian Dicker (Palawa) · Sandra Eades (Noongar)
Scabies: a clinical update
Updated epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of scabies, including emerging treatments
Laxmi Iyengar · Alvin H Chong · Andrew C Steer
An allied health model of care for long COVID rehabilitation
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation is the most effective solution to improve quality of life for patients with long COVID
Joanne M Wrench · Leigh R Seidel Marks
Custodial dermatology for First Nations peoples: a niche service caring for incarcerated communities
To address skin health of First Nations children and adults in prison, a First Nations-led dermatology clinic is addressing the right to equitable health care.
Dana RML Slape (Larrakia) · Penelope A Abbott · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi)
General practitioners’ views and experiences of postpartum contraception counselling and provision: a qualitative–descriptive study
General practitioners are well placed to facilitate discussions about contraception with women who have recently given birth
Jenna K Perkins · Sharon James · Danielle Mazza · Jessica R Botfield
The rise of direct‐to‐consumer telemedicine services in Australia: implications for primary care and future research
Vishnu Khanal · Deborah J Russell · John Wakerman
Hidden danger: maize starch excipient allergy
Wala Hamid Haj Ali · Corey Borg · Catherine Leggett
Severe tetanus infections across New South Wales in 2023
An 85-year-old woman presented with three days of dysphagia, headache, lower abdominal discomfort, and trismus
Romeo Torres · Ernest Tee · Sophie Harper · Leemin Chan · John Ng · Andie Lee
Treatment‐resistant tinea caused by Trichophyton indotineae in Australia
An otherwise well 25-year-old man presented with an itchy rash of 15 months duration on his groin and thighs, with no systemic symptoms
Kyra YL Chua · Catriona L Halliday · Sharon C‐A Chen · Sonia Koning · Jedrzej Pawlikowski · Philipp du Cros · Tony M Korman
Phrynoderma: an under‐recognised condition reflecting nutritional deficiency
A 65-year-old man was referred to a private dermatologist for diagnosis and management of a hyperkeratotic, scaly, pruritic eruption affecting the trunk and extremities, which had been worsening over 12 months
Matthew J Verheyden · Vicki Howard · Monisha Gupta
Dying of heart failure: how do we improve the experience?
Cardiologists require competency and confidence in managing not only deteriorating but also end of life, heart failure
Dominica Zentner · Vithoosharan Sivanathan · Jennifer Philip · Natasha Smallwood
Enhanced recovery after surgery: an update for the generalist
Barbara Depczynski · Brenda Ta · Sue Mei Lau
Paracoccidioidomycosis: an Australian case
A 34-year-old man, born in Brasília, Brazil, who had been living in Australia for three years with no return travel, presented to his dentist with an eight-week history of a painful, progressively enlarging maxillary, gingival ulcerative lesion
Timothy C Badrick · Ella M Meumann · Kathryn Shirley · Peter Simos · Mertya L May · Gary Quagliotto · Evan C Bursle · Nici Leonard · Rodney J McDougall · Jennifer M Robson
Beyond the planned and expected: the unintended consequences of telehealth in rural and remote Australia through a complexity lens
The unique health and social challenges of rural and remote Australians suggest that using telehealth to improve health care access is a complex and multifaceted problem
Sagda Osman · Kate Churruca · Louise A Ellis · Jeffrey Braithwaite
How can we attract more doctors to general practice training?
We must systematically consider how to best recognise, use, and value these critical members of multidisciplinary primary care teams
Belinda G O'Sullivan · Christie Rodda
Ending the neglect of menstrual pain in adolescents is the key to improving outcomes for people with persistent pelvic pain
Understanding trajectories of menstrual health throughout life is critical for effective public health interventions in women’s health
Courtney Munro · Sonia R Grover
Rescuing the profession we love: general practice training sector recommendations for improving the attractiveness of general practice training. A qualitative analysis
General practitioners see substantial challenges, the solutions for which are largely outside the control of their profession
Nancy Sturman · Michael Tran · Sophie Vasiliadis
Menstrual pain in Australian adolescent girls and its impact on regular activities: a population‐based cohort analysis based on Longitudinal Study of Australian Children survey data
Recognising adolescent period pain is also part of early screening for chronic health conditions such as endometriosis
Lauren Cameron · Antonina Mikocka‐Walus · Emma Sciberras · Marilla Druitt · Katherine Stanley · Subhadra Evans
The rise of private equity investment in Australian health care
Our ageing population makes for-profit health care increasingly attractive for private equity investors
Martin Hensher
Medicare‐funded reproductive genetic carrier screening in Australia has arrived: are we ready?
Reproductive genetic carrier screening publicly available for cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome
Alice P Rogers · Lara Fitzgerald · Jan Liebelt · Christopher Barnett
Medical students: a potentially sustainable solution for our workforce crisis and future reforms in health care
An agile and dynamic workforce of medical students can address critical workforce shortages in the health care system and facilitate future reforms
Rebecca Goodall · Emily Matejin · Sean Fabri · Paul Eleftheriou
