Health services administration

Regular consultant-led ward rounds can improve safety and outcomes

E Leslie Bokey MS, FRACS, FRCS(Hon) · Pierre H Chapuis DS, FRACS · Owen F Dent MA, PhD

Legislation and policy support step change for public services in tackling societal challenges sustainably

Ruth Hussey MB ChB, MSc, MD · Cathy Weatherup BA, CIM, MSc

About one in five young people did not submit a specimen for testing despite a GP request

Andrew Lau MSc · Simone Spark BSc(Hons), MPH, PhD · Jane Tomnay PhD, MHSc, RN · Meredith Temple-Smith BSc, MPH, DHSc · Christopher K Fairley PhD, FAFPHM, MB BS · Rebecca J Guy PhD, MAppEpid · Basil Donovan MB BS, MD, FAFPHM · Jane S Hocking PhD, MPH, BAppSc

The snapshot will inform the development of strategies that improve the outcomes for heart failure patients

Phillip J Newton RN, PhD · Patricia M Davidson RN, PhD · Christopher M Reid PhD · Henry Krum* MB BS, PhD, FRACP · Christopher Hayward MD · David W Sibbritt PhD · Emily Banks MB BS, PhD, FAFPHM · Peter S MacDonald MB BS, FRACP, PhD

Genetics and genomics in everyday clinical practice

Andrew Mallett MB BS, MMed, FRACP · Lindsay F Fowles BSc, MSc, PhD · Julie McGaughran MD, FRCP, FRACP · Helen Healy MB BS, FRACP, PhD · Chirag Patel BSc, MD, FRACP

Non-clinicians have based their claims of inappropriate care in hyperbaric medicine on flawed methods

Susannah Sherlock BSc, MB BS, FANZCA

Vertebroplasty has been controversial but remains clinically useful and new evidence awaits publication

William A Clark MB BS, FRANZCR, EBIR

Measuring inappropriate care should rely on available evidence, with anomalous practices evaluated by clinical panels

Stephen J Duckett DSc, FASSA, FAHMS · Peter Breadon MPA, MPP, BA · Danielle Romanes BA(Hons), GradDipAppEc

Early administration of antibiotics and aggressive fluid resuscitation improves outcomes for patients

Anthony R Burrell MB BS, FANZCA, FCICM · Mary-Louise McLaws DipTropPubHlth, MPH, PhD · Mary Fullick RN, BHlthSci(Nurs) · Rosemary B Sullivan RN, BHlthSci(Admin), MBus(HRM) · Doungkamol Sindhusake PhD, MPH, MA

If GPs are to play a role in managing this disease, they need specialist support

Zeina Najjar BSc(Med)/BMed/BSurg, MPH, FAFPHM · Leena Gupta MB BS, MPH, FAFPHM · Janice Pritchard-Jones RN, MPH · Simone I Strasser MB BS, MD, FRACP · Miriam T Levy MB BS, PhD · Siaw-Teng Liaw PhD, FRACGP, FACMI · Benjamin C Cowie MB BS, PhD, FRACP

Interventions that improve timeliness and appropriateness of care have produced impressive results

Sue M Evans PhD, MClinEpi · Arul Earnest PhD, MSc, BSocSc(Hons) · Wendy Bower PhD, BAppSc(Physio), PgDEpiBiost · Meera Senthuren BSc(Hons) · Peta McLaughlin BApplSci · Rob Stirling BSc(Hons), MB BCh(Hons), FRACP

The challenge facing Australia is the translation of international results on lung cancer screening into sustainable, cost-effective clinical practice

Fraser Brims MD, MRCP, FRACP · Annette McWilliams MB BS, FRACP, FRCPC · Kwun Fong MB BS, PhD, FRACP

We must ensure that people of refugee background have the confidence, support and resources to manage their health

Elisha Riggs BAppSc(Hons), PhD · Jane Yelland BAppSc, PhD · Philippa Duell-Piening BOccTher, BErgonomics, MIntCommunityDev · Stephanie J Brown BA(Hons), PhD

Increased treatment costs of bowel cancer are a stimulus for considerable effort in the areas of prevention and early detection

Terry D Bolin MD, FRACP, FRCP · Melvyn G Korman MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP · Fiona Nicholson MB BS, FRACP, PhD · Lynne Pezzullo BEc(Hons) · Jeffrey Engelman MB BS(Hons), MD, FRACP · Katherine Collings BScNutr(Hons), MScDiet · David Gilchrist Creelman BEc, BCom

Although a large proportion of Australians are estimated to have vitamin D deficiency … moderate to severe deficiency is only present in about 4% of people

Steven C Boyages PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM

Shifting cultural and financial reliance away from pharmaceutical company sponsorship

Jessica Dean BMedSci(Hons) · Erwin Loh MB BS, PhD, FRACMA · Justin J Coleman MB BS, FRACGP, MPH

Most reports occur when there is an impediment to mutually managing the risks posed by the reported practitioner

Marie M Bismark MD, LLB, FAFPHM · Matthew J Spittal PhD, MBio · Jennifer M Morris BA, BSci, GDSciComm · David M Studdert LLB, ScD, MPH

GPs in more remote areas must often also care for people with oral health problems

Tony Barnett PhD · Ha Hoang PhD · Jackie Stuart BDSc · Leonard Crocombe BDSc, MBA, PhD

A wide-ranging national debate in Australia is needed regarding the ethics and law of paid surrogacy across international borders

Ainsley J Newson PhD(Bioethics), LLB(Hons), BSc(Hons)

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (1926–2015) was a towering figure in Australian and international medicine

Judith Whitworth AC, FTSE, FRACP

A rapid response system may be an appropriate model for meeting the urgent need for more suitable care for patients at the end of life

Kenneth M Hillman MD, FRCA, FCICM · Gordon D Rubenfeld MD · Jeffrey Braithwaite PhD, FAIM, FCHSM

The OECD warns about Australia’s low psychiatric bed numbers

Stephen Allison MB BS, FRANZCP · Tarun Bastiampillai MB BS, BMedSci, FRANZCP

Many professional bodies have policies on alcohol consumption, but we could find none — including the RACP, RACS and RACGP — with policies on giving alcohol as gifts

R John H Massie MB BS, FRACP, PhD · A Rob Moodie MB BS, MPH

Medical television dramas exercise a growing influence on the practice of junior doctors

Hasan N Haboubi MB BS, BSc(Hons), MRCP · Holly Morgan MB BCh · Omar Aldalati MD, MRCP

Climate change has negative health impacts: urgent mitigation is needed, and this will benefit our health

Linda A Selvey MB BS(Hon), PhD, FAFPHM