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Volume 189 Issue 7

6 October 2008

From the editor’s desk

The training tsunami

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 353 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 354 Free

Editorials

Topical ophthalmic medications: what potential for systemic side effects and interactions with other medications?

Ivan Goldberg, Gregory Moloney and Peter McCluskey

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 356-357

Subspecialisation in surgery and the continuing challenge of providing emergency surgery services

Ian R Gough

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 358-359

Research

Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple comorbid conditions

Agnes I Vitry and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 360-365 Free

Helicobacter pylori eradication: a novel therapeutic option in chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Vanaja Sivapathasingam, Michael P Harvey and Robert B Wilson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 367-370 Free

Medicine and the media

Mixed messages and a missed opportunity: Australian news media coverage of Clare Oliver’s campaign against solaria

Ross MacKenzie, Michelle Imison, Simon Chapman and Simon Holding

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 371-374 Free

What impact would effective solarium regulation have in Australia?

Louisa G Gordon, Nicholas G Hirst, Peter H F Gies and Adèle C Green

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 375-378 Free

Clinical practice

Documentation of clinical review and vital signs after major surgery

Forbes McGain, Michelle A Cretikos, Daryl Jones, Susan Van Dyk, Michael D Buist, Helen Opdam, Vincent Pellegrino, Megan S Robertson and Rinaldo Bellomo

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 380-383 Free

Health care reform

Policy is easy, implementation is hard

John Menadue

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 384-385

Position statement

Management of bronchiectasis and chronic suppurative lung disease in Indigenous children and adults from rural and remote Australian communities

Anne B Chang, Keith Grimwood, Graeme Maguire, Paul T King, Peter S Morris and Paul J Torzillo

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 386-393 Free

Review

Quality and consistency of clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis of the hip and knee: a descriptive overview of published guidelines

Marie L Misso, Veronica J Pitt, Kay M Jones, Hayley N Barnes, Leon Piterman and Sally E Green

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 394-399 Free

Lessons from practice

Misdiagnosis of acute eye diseases by primary health care providers: incidence and implications

Michael O Statham, Anamika Sharma and Anthony R Pane

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 402-404 Free

A case of melancholic depression induced by β-blocker antiglaucoma agents

Isaac Schweitzer, Kay Maguire and Chee H Ng

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 406-407 Free

Snapshot

Severe bilateral papilloedema secondary to a large primary brain tumour

Vivek B Pandya, Neil S Sharma, Peter Khong and John Males

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 413 Free

Book reviews

Palliative care – getting the focus right

Paul A Glare

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 400

Stories of the black dog

Kelsey L Hegarty

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 400

Trachoma through the ages

Jill E Keeffe

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 401

Obituary

Kenneth George Howsam MB BS, DO, FRACS, FRACO, FRACMA, FACO

John R Thomson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 401 Free

Correction

Does practice make perfect? The effect of coaching and re-testing on selection tests used for admission to an Australian medical school

Barbara Griffin, David W Harding, Ian G Wilson and Neville D Yeomans

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 416

Letters

Prevalence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities in the Katherine Region of the Northern Territory in 2007

Katrina Roper, Claude-Edouard C Michel, Paul M Kelly and Hugh R Taylor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 409 Free

A heart-stopping orbital injury

Vivek B Pandya, R Max Conway and Richard Conway

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 410

Devastating outcome after only 6 hours of contact lens wear

Vivek B Pandya, Alessandra Martins and Shanel Sharma

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 410-411

Ocular syphilis: are we seeing all there is to see?

Matthew T Kitson, Michelle K Yong and Jennifer F Hoy

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 411

Wrist guards and wrist and elbow injury in snowboarders

Graham M Slaney, Judith C Finn, Angus Cook and Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 412

Two cases of Streptococcus suis endocarditis in Australian piggery workers

Karina J Kennedy, Assad A Jadeer, Chong W Ong, Sanjaya N Senanayake and Peter J Collignon

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 413

The Safer Patients Initiative: the UK experience of attempting to improve safe clinical care

Peter J Shirley

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414

Changes to the University of Sydney medical curriculum

Thomas K F Taylor

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414-415

Changes to the University of Sydney medical curriculum

Ian R Gough

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414-415

Changes to the University of Sydney medical curriculum

Kerry J Goulston and R Kim Oates

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 414-415

KFC sponsorship of cricket

Stephen Colagiuri and Ian D Caterson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 415-416

KFC sponsorship of cricket

Peter Young

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 415-416

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

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