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Health services administration
Misperceptions about routine childhood vaccination among parents in Australia, before and after the COVID‐19 pandemic: a cross‐sectional survey study
Monitoring vaccine sentiment and perceived access barriers could identify worrying trends before they lead to reduced vaccination rates
Jessica Kaufman · Monsurul Hoq · Anthea L Rhodes · Mary‐Anne Measey · Margie H Danchin
Time to set a standard for the standards: health libraries provide crucial support for Australian medical training programs
Accreditation by medical colleges should ensure equity of access to library services, facilities and expertise for Australian medical trainees.
Gemma Siemensma · Anna Griffith · Alice Anderson · Angela Smith
Exploring opportunities to reduce scope 3 emissions in renewably powered health services
Health services are transitioning to become renewably powered: could this also help reduce health care supply chain emissions?
Urvi D Thanekar · Martin Hensher · Rebecca Patrick · George Keel · Michael Forrester
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
How should artificial intelligence be used in Australian health care? Recommendations from a citizens’ jury
Australians welcome clinical applications of AI, provided that strong governance is in place
Stacy M Carter · Yves Saint James Aquino · Lucy Carolan · Emma Frost · Chris Degeling · Wendy A Rogers · Ian A Scott · Katy JL Bell · Belinda Fabrianesi · Farah Magrabi
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
The mental health crisis needs more than increased investment in the mental health system
Tackling the mental health crisis requires addressing the social determinants of mental health and a whole-of-system approach to this problem
Shuichi Suetani · Neeraj Gill · Luis Salvador‐Carulla
Psychological safety in medicine: what is it, and who cares?
Psychological safety has remained on the periphery of the health care world
Mina Sarofim
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
Private equity investment in health care delivery, Australia, 2008–2022
Doctors are increasingly likely to interact with private equity firms and assets owned by these firms
Victoria L Berquist
The Australian Health Care Homes trial: quality of care and patient outcomes. A propensity score‐matched cohort study
Improved access to care and processes of care were achieved, but not in diabetes-related outcomes, hospital use, or risk of death
Duong T Tran · Michael O Falster · Jim Pearse · Deniza Mazevska · Patrick McElduff · Sallie Pearson · Kees C Gool · Jane Hall · Louisa Jorm
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
The impact of tightened prescribing restrictions for PBS-subsidised opioid medicines and the introduction of half-pack sizes, Australia, 2020–21: an interrupted time series analysis
The introduction of new PBS rules for subsidised opioid medicines were followed by a decline in subsidised dispensing
Forrest C Koch · Jake Olivier · Jonathan Brett · Nicholas A Buckley · Natasa Gisev · Sallie Pearson · Benjamin Daniels
Long COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey
General practices play a major role in managing the burden of long COVID in Australia
Mulu Woldegiorgis · Gemma Cadby · Sera Ngeh · Rosemary J Korda · Paul K Armstrong · Jelena Maticevic · Paul Knight · Andrew Jardine · Lauren E Bloomfield · Paul V Effler
The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector
There are signs of progress, but a greater sense of urgency is still required
Paul J Beggs · Stefan Trueck · Martina K Linnenluecke · Hilary Bambrick · Anthony G Capon · Ivan C Hanigan · Nicolas Borchers Arriagada · Troy J Cross · Sharon Friel · Donna Green · Maddie Heenan · Ollie Jay · Harry Kennard · Arunima Malik · Celia McMichael · Mark Stevenson · Sotiris Vardoulakis · Tran N Dang · Gail Garvey · Raymond Lovett · Veronica Matthews · Dung Phung · Alistair J Woodward · Marina B Romanello · Ying Zhang
Australia's mental health commissions: evaluating a natural experiment
Australia’s experiment with commissions requires urgent overhaul to prevent waste and to ensure the key challenge of improving accountability is fulfilled
Sebastian P Rosenberg
Expanding access to fracture liaison services in Australia for people with minimal trauma fractures: a system dynamics modelling study
Changing key FLS operational characteristics would only moderately reduce minimal trauma fractures among people aged 50 years or more
Alicia R Jones · Danielle Currie · Cindy Peng · Peter R Ebeling · Jackie R Center · Gustavo Duque · Sean Lybrand · Greg Lyubomirsky · Rebecca J Mitchell · Sallie Pearson · Markus J Seibel · Jo‐An Occhipinti
The role of medical colleges and member organisations in advancing women in health care leadership
Member organisations, such as medical colleges, can influence organisational and system change to advance women in medical leadership
Jenny Proimos · Jacqueline A Boyle · Belinda Garth · Erwin Loh · Helena J Teede
Women in medical leadership: has the COVID‐19 crisis heightened the glass cliff?
Organisation level interventions are needed to better support prospective women medical leaders
Melissa A Wheeler · Laksmi S Govindasamy
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
The provision of general surgery in rural Australia: a narrative review
Improving general surgery in rural areas relies on an increase in workforce numbers, tailored models of care and an improved focus on the wider multidisciplinary team
Jessica Paynter · Kirby R Qin · Janelle Brennan · David J Hunter‐Smith · Warren M Rozen
Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative
Amith Shetty · Jean‐Frederic Levesque · Walid Jammal
Who should get the last TAVI valve? Public versus private access to disruptive technologies in the Australian health care system
The failure of health technology assessments to bridge the federal–state divide contributes to public–private access gaps
Jonathon B Ryan
