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Volume 180 Issue 1

5 January 2004

From the editor’s desk

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): Free

Editorials

New Zealand’s Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act

Tricia A Briscoe

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 4-5

Antivenom efficacy, safety and availability: measuring smoke

Allen C Cheng and Ken D Winkel

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 5-6

Conference report

Designing the health workforce for the 21st century

Jennifer A Alexander, Sue M Thomson and John A Ramsay

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 7-9

Research

Prevalence of skin screening by general practitioners in regional Queensland

Monika Janda, Philippa H Youl, Joanne F Aitken, Mark Elwood, Ian T Ring, David W Firman and John B Lowe

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 10-15 Free

Factors influencing the number needed to excise: excision rates of pigmented lesions by general practitioners

Dallas R English, Chris Del Mar and Robert C Burton

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 16-19 Free

Parallel infusion of hydrocortisone ± chlorpheniramine bolus injection to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom for snakebites

Indika Bandara Gawarammana, S Abeysingha M Kularatne, Ranjith P V Kumarasiri, Nimal Senanayake, Wasantha P Dissanayake and H Ariyasena

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 20-23 Free

Public health

An outbreak of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Far North Queensland, 2002

Jeffrey N Hanna, Scott A Ritchie, Dianne L Brookes, Brian L Montgomery, Damon P Eisen and Robert D Cooper

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 24-28 Free

Notable cases

Fatal leptospirosis presenting as musculoskeletal chest pain

Fenton M O’Leary, Jaspal S Hunjan, Ross Bradbury and Govindasamy Thanakrishnan

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 29-31 Free

Travel Medicine

Travel insurance and medical evacuation: view from the far side

Robert F Grace and Darren Penny

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 32-35 Free

For debate

“SunSmart Plus”: the more informed use of sunscreens

Stephen R D Taylor

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 36-37 Free

Diagnostic dilemma

An unusual cause of an epidural abscess

Sebastiaan J van Hal and Jeffrey J Post

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 40-41

Correction

Lowering blood pressure in 2003

John P Chalmers and Leonard F Arnolda

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47

Letters

Mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers: a preventable exposure to injury risk

Suzanne P McEvoy and Mark R Stevenson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 43-45

Mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers: a preventable exposure to injury risk

Ric Bouvier

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 43-45

Mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers: a preventable exposure to injury risk

Graham J Chalker, Kenneth H Joyner and Kelly S Parkinson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 43-45

Mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers: a preventable exposure to injury risk

David McD Taylor

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 43-45

Control of genital chlamydial infection in the Kimberley region of Western Australia

Donna B Mak, Graeme H Johnson, Lewis J Marshall and Jacqueline K Mein

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 45

Positive Q fever skin test after vaccination

Neil R Parker

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 45-46

Reuse of single-use medical devices: how often does this still occur in Australia?

Sandy J Berenger and John K Ferguson

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 46-47

Reuse of single-use medical devices: how often does this still occur in Australia?

Clifford F Hughes

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 46-47

The public hospital of the future

Bryan G Walpole

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47

The public hospital of the future

Jeffrey D Zajac

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Ron J Lord

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47-48

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Robert A Jones

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47-48

Australian healthcare reform: in need of political courage and champions

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 47-48

Snapshots

The 2 GHz mind of a computer

Biji T Kurien

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 19 Free

Embolisation to the fingers of both hands from aortic atheroma

Yasuhiro Oki and Farooq A Chaudhry

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1): 31 Free

Book reviews

EBM — a moral imperative

Wendy A Rogers

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1):

World of exotic diseases

Philip Weinstein

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1):

Children’s health: the big picture

Christopher J Morgan

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1):

Engaging transplantation ethics

Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2004; 180 (1):

Columns

In Other Journals

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