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Medical colleges have an obligation to ensure full participation in Clinical Quality Registries
The cornerstone of a successful CQR is data quality and medical colleges should use their position to ensure high quality data, which requires full participation, high case ascertainment, and data completeness
Robert J Aitken · Julian A Smith · Guy J Maddern
Voluntary assisted dying: challenges in Northern Territory remote Aboriginal communities
Discussion of findings from a public voluntary assisted dying consultation process in the Northern Territory and how to ensure equitable access and cultural safety. Telehealth could improve access but presents clinical and legal challenges
Geetanjali Lamba · Kane Vellar · C Paul Burgess · Camille La Brooy · Paul A Komesaroff
The 2024 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia emerging as a hotspot for litigation
Paul J Beggs · Alistair J Woodward · Kathryn Bowen
Dignity of risk in residential aged care: a call to reframe understandings of risk
Choice and dignity need to be deeply embedded in the daily care of residents, and risk-based decisions should be supported by effective organisational policies
Maria Foundas
The prevalence of and variation in indicators of the quality and safety of long term aged care in Australia, 2019: a cross‐sectional population‐based study
Our findings could be used to identify areas of aged care that could be targeted by quality improvement programs
Tesfahun C Eshetie · Gillian E Caughey · Catherine Lang · Olivia Ryan · Renuka Visvanathan · Craig Whitehead · Keith Evans · Janet K Sluggett · Jyoti Khadka · Carolyn Dawkins · Helena Williams · Miranda Starke · Sara Blunt · Anne Liddell · Megan Corlis · Anna Sheppeard · Penelope Lello · Marilyn Thien · Steven L Wesselingh · Maria C Inacio
Prescription opioid supply‐restricting policies and hospital use by people prescribed opioid medications, Victoria, 2018–22: a controlled interrupted time series analysis
Opioid-related harm can be reduced without increasing long term non-opioid substance- or mental health-related harm
Suzanne Nielsen · Louisa Picco · Bosco Rowland · Nadine E Andrew · Taya A Collyer · Samanta Lalic · Rachelle Buchbinder · Christopher Pearce · J Simon Bell · Dan I Lubman · Ting Xia
Health and economic benefits of improving pre‐hospital identification of stroke in Australian women: a modelling study
Younger women experiencing stroke in Australia stand to gain health and economic benefits from more accurate stroke identification in the pre-hospital setting
Thomas Gadsden · Lei Si · Emily R Atkins · Cheryl Carcel · Xia Wang · Stephen Jan · Mark Woodward · Laura E Downey
Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in public health research and practice?
Ikram Abdi · Abela Mahimbo · Julie Leask
A salute to ten years of Australian Clinical Care Standards: celebrations and challenges
A reflection and celebration marking ten years of the Clinical Care Standards program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Alice L Bhasale · Carolyn Hullick · Maria B Sukkar · Anne Duggan
Motivations, barriers and enablers for medical and forensic examiners in New South Wales sexual assault services: a qualitative interview study
Changing employment conditions and providing additional support beyond information needs of medical and forensic examiners can help improve workforce participation
Natalie Edmiston · Sam Sperring · Rosalie Power · Samantha Ryan · Kathryn Evans · Jane Ussher · Ellie Freedman
Clinicians’ discretion to contact patients’ at‐risk relatives about their genetic risk: new guidance from Australia's privacy regulator provides timely clarification
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s recently updated guidance clarifies clinicians’ discretion to assist patients with notifying their relatives about genetic risk without breaching federal privacy laws
Jane Tiller · Margaret FA Otlowski
Decolonising primary health care practice: a definition and its importance
This perspective reports on a highly collaborative research process through which a clear definition of decolonising primary health care practice in an Australian context has been developed, and how this can be applied
Tamara J Mackean · Kim O'Donnell · Juanita Sherwood · Shane D'Angelo · Madison Shakespeare · Cleone Wellington · Toby Freeman · Anna M Ziersch · Matt Fisher · Deborah A Askew · Judith M Dwyer · Annette J Browne · Fran Baum AO
Core components of a best practice First Nations cancer coordinator role
The core elements of a First Nations cancer care coordination role developed by iterative yarning with First Nations stakeholders, audits of current care, and recommendations from existing patient coordinator programs
Mollie C Wilson · Marissa Mulcahy · Jennifer Philip · Brian H Le · Gail Garvey
Bone health perspectives among Indigenous people: a qualitative study
Increasing bone health awareness by a co-created Community education program was valued by Indigenous people
Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta) · Karan P Singh · Vanessa Gan · Brooke Conley (Ngiyampaa) · Jessica Bravo · Nigel Smith (Weilwan) · April Clarke (Eastern Maar, Kirrae Whurrung, Djap Wurrung) · Jackson Baker · Louise J Maple‐Brown · Robin M Daly · Jennifer Browne · Jesse Zanker · Cat Shore‐Lorenti · David Scott · Peter R Ebeling · Ayse Zengin
Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study
Transplantation equity requires a prioritised investment in system and quality improvements, from enhanced referral and assessment pathways to optimising all elements of care and ongoing accountability measures
Stephen P McDonald AM · Katie Cundale · Christopher E Davies · Kelli Karrikarringka Owen (Kaurna, Nharangga, and Ngarrindjeri) · Kerry Dole · Feruza Kholmurodova · Matilda D’Antoine (Paakantyi) · Jaquelyne T Hughes (Wagadagam)
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
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
Optimising the impact of smartphone‐activated volunteer responder programs on out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest outcomes by increasing responder density
SAVR programs are promising public health initiatives for reducing the role of luck, especially for arrests in private residences
Alan Morrison · Paul Simpson
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
Social inequalities in eligibility rates and use of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme, 2016–22: an administrative data analysis
George Disney · Peter Summers · Yi Yang
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
Preventing intimate partner violence in Australia: unlocking the primary prevention potential of general practice
General practice is uniquely positioned to intervene at multiple points across the life course
Georgina Sutherland · Karen Block
Urgent care centres for reducing the demand on emergency departments: a scoping review of published quantitative and qualitative studies
Walk-in and after-hours clinics can help reduce the number of ED presentations and reduce health care costs
Feby Savira · Madison Frith · Clarissa J Aditya · Sean Randall · Naomi White · Andrew Giddy · Lauren Spark · Jamie Swann · Suzanne Robinson
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
Exploring the role of urine drug screening in opioid agonist therapy
Instructive guidelines for urine drug screening during opioid agonist therapy might minimise unnecessary tension in the therapeutic relationship between prescribers and patients
Grace FitzGerald · Sione Crawford · Adrian J Dunlop · Jon Cook · Dean Membrey · Paul MacCartney · Thileepan Naren