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Volume 177 Issue 5

2 September 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue, 2 September 2002

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Editorials

Children with type 1 diabetes: where are we at?

Jennifer J Couper

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Potential pitfalls of healthcare performance indicators

Neil W Boyce

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 229-230

Malaria vaccines

Graham V Brown and John C Reeder

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 230-231

Conference report

Hepatitis C-related discrimination in healthcare

Carla J Treloar, Max N Hopwood and Stuart K Loveday

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 233-234

Research

Predictors of glycaemic control and hypoglycaemia in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes from NSW and the ACT

Maria E Craig, Penny Handelsman, Kim C Donaghue, Albert Chan, Barbara Blades, Rosetta Laina, Darna Bradford, Angela Middlehurst, Geoffrey Ambler, Martin Silink, Charles F Verge, Patricia Crock and Patrick Moore, for the NSW/ACT HbA1c Study Group

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 235-238 Free

Factors associated with severity of hepatic fibrosis in people with chronic hepatitis C infection

Mark Danta, Gregory J Dore, Yueming Li, John M Kaldor, Chris R Vickers, Lisa Hennessy, Robert G Batey, Hugh Harley, Meng Ngu, William Reed, Paul V Desmond, William Sievert and Geoff C Farrell

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 240-245 Free

Increase in presentations and procedure rates for hyperparathyroidism in Northern Sydney and New South Wales

Tom S Reeve, Bruce H Barraclough, Leigh W Delbridge, Bruce G Robinson, Phillip Clifton-Bligh, Mark S Sywak and Gordon H Fick

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Healthcare

Quality of care provided by general practitioners using or not using Division-based diabetes registers

Mark F Harris, Fernando A Infante, Brian I O'Toole, Debbie Priddin and Warwick Ruscoe

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 250-252 Free

Surgery dot.com: the quality of information disseminated by Web-based waiting time information services

David A Cromwell, David A Griffiths and Irene A Kreis

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 253-255 Free

EBM: Trials on trial

Determining the sample size in a clinical trial

Adrienne Kirby, Val Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 256-257

Should we debrief and counsel people who have had psychological shock?

Christopher B Del Mar

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Clinical update

Cocaine use and cardiovascular complications

Gabriella Vasica and Christopher C Tennant

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 260-262 Free

The profession

Medical professionalism in the new millennium: a physicians' charter

Medical Professionalism Project

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 263-265

EBM in action

Treatment for hot flushes in women receiving tamoxifen

Sean A Bydder and Nigel A Spry

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 266-266

MJA Practice Essentials — Infectious Diseases

10: Herpes simplex and varicella–zoster virus infections

Dominic E Dwyer and Anthony L Cunningham

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Obituaries

Henry Edward HudsonAM MD FRACS

Paul Hudson

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Letters

Postoperative serious adverse events in a teaching hospital

Thomas B Hugh, G Douglas Tracy, Rinaldo Bellomo, Donna Goldsmith, Sarah Russell and Shigehiko Uchino

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Postoperative serious adverse events in a teaching hospital

Thomas B Hugh, G Douglas Tracy, Rinaldo Bellomo, Donna Goldsmith, Sarah Russell and Shigehiko Uchino

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 276-277

Postoperative serious adverse events in a teaching hospital

Thomas B Hugh

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 276-277

Acute community-acquired meningitis and encephalitis

Deborah C Saltman, Miles H Beaman and Steven L Wesselingh

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 277-277

Acute community-acquired meningitis and encephalitis

Deborah C Saltman, Miles H Beaman and Steven L Wesselingh

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 277-277

Short-term effectiveness of bupropion for assisting smoking cessation in general practice

Nicholas A Zwar, Alia Nasser, Elizabeth J Comino and Robyn L Richmond

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 277-278

Surgeons' views about colorectal cancer screening before and after national guidelines

Annie Cooney, Neil J Donnelly, Melina Gattellari and Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (5): 278-279

Low rate of compliance with ergocalciferol therapy in vitamin-D-deficient patients with hip fracture

Jane M Noble, Marjory McGuiness and Paul Glendenning

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Correction

Guidelines for the management of gestational diabetes mellitus revisited

David S Simmons, Barry N J Walters, Peter Wein and N Wah Cheung

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Book reviews

A handy guide to coronary care

Peter L Thompson

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Surgical snapshots

Christopher J O’Donnell

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Statistical gem

Sue Inglis

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