Volume 164 Issue 11

Editorials

• Communication in hospitals: a quality management issue Lionel L Wilson (MJA 1996; 164: 645)
• Prevention of postoperative venous thromboembolism Beng H Chong (MJA 1996; 164: 646)
• Postsplenectomy overwhelming sepsis: reducing the risks Denis W Spelman (MJA 1996; 164: 648)
• When medical research is beholden to politics Alex D Wodak (MJA 1996; 164: 649)

Research

• The incidence of deep venous thrombosis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy Manish I Patel, David T A Hardman, Delwyn Nicholls, Charles M Fisher, Michael Appleberg (MJA 1996; 164: 652)
• Hepatitis C virus infection in health care workers referred to a hepatitis clinic W Graham E Cooksley, Lesley A Butterworth (MJA 1996; 164: 656)
• Hospitalisation for adverse events related to drug therapy: incidence, avoidability and costs Jonathan G A Dartnell, Robert P Anderson, Veronica Chohan, Kirsten J Galbraith, Moira E H Lyon, Peter J Nestor, Robert F W Moulds (MJA 1996; 164: 659)

Notable Cases

• Communication breakdown: a preventable cause of acute renal failure in a newborn infant Jonathan C Craig, John F Knight, Grahame H Smith (MJA 1996; 164: 663)

Managing HIV

• Men and HIV Andrew M Pethebridge, David C Plummer (MJA 1996; 164: 666)
• Women with HIV Anne M Mijch, Kate Clezy, Virginia Furner (MJA 1996; 164: 669)
• Children with HIV John B Ziegler, Stephane Blanche, Richard Loh (MJA 1996; 164: 672)

MJA Practice Essentials - Dermatology

• Update on lasers in dermatology Greg J Goodman, Philip S Bekhor, Shawn W Richards (MJA 1996; 164: 681)

For Debate

• The ACT heroin trial proposal: an overview Gabriele Bammer, Robert M Douglas (MJA 1996; 164: 690)
• "Acculturating" heroin use Matt D Gaughwin (MJA 1996; 164: 692)
• The heroin trial we had to have Nick Crofts (MJA 1996; 164: 694)