Volume 183, Issue 10 | The Medical Journal of Australia

From the editor’s desk

Health and happiness

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 497 Free

Surgical accountability: a framework for trust and change

Alastair Thompson, Peter A Stonebridge and Allan D Spigelman

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 500

Screening couples for cystic fibrosis carrier status: why are we waiting?

R John Massie, Martin B Delatycki and Agnes Bankier

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 501-502

A national sexually transmissible infections strategy: the need for an all-embracing approach

Adrian Mindel and Susan Kippax

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 502-503

Research

The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality: advancing surgical accountability

James B Semmens, Frank M Sanfilippo, S Aqif Mukhtar, Natasha S Haynes, Jenny A Mountain and R James Aitken

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 504-508 Free

Efficacy of an alcohol/chlorhexidine hand hygiene program in a hospital with high rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection

Paul D R Johnson, Rhea Martin, Laurelle J Burrell, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Susan W Kirsa, Jason O’Keeffe, Barrie C Mayall, Deidre Edmonds, Wendy Barr, Christopher Bolger, Humsha Naidoo and M Lindsay Grayson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 509-514 Free

Risk of complications in a second pregnancy following caesarean section in the first pregnancy: a population-based study

Lee K Taylor, Judy M Simpson, Christine L Roberts, Emily C Olive and David J Henderson-Smart

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 515-519 Free

Empiric management of community-acquired pneumonia in Australian emergency departments

David J Maxwell, Kylie A McIntosh, Lisa K Pulver and Kylie L Easton, for the CAPTION Study Group*

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 520-524 Free

Clinical update

Management of unprotected sexual encounters

Deborah L Couldwell

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 525-528 Free

For debate

Health care safety: what needs to be done?

George L Rubin and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 529-531 Free

Lessons from practice

Erythema induratum: a case of mistaken identity

Gary Y J Chew, John W Quin and Christopher Henderson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 534 Free

A potentially fatal prescribing error in the treatment of paracetamol poisoning

Mark Little, Lindsay Murray, David McCoubrie and Frank F S Daly

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 535-536 Free

Snapshot

Bezoar causing small bowel obstruction after repeated activated charcoal administration

Justin C Y Chan, Chaminda Saranasuriya and Bruce P Waxman

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 537 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Sports Medicine

3. Is exercise good for you?

Peter D Brukner and Wendy J Brown

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 538-541 Free

Matters arising

Public reporting of individual surgeon performance

Stephen Clarke, Justin G Oakley, David A Neil and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 543

Measurement, monitoring and clinical governance

Sue M Evans, Peter A Cameron, Paul Myles, Johannes Stoelwinder and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 543

Optimising hospital systems comes first

Anthony P Morton

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 544

Dramatic changes for the better are already occurring

Bruce H Barraclough

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 544

It’s time to plan our future health system

Peter M Brooks

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 545

A half-day each month for quality and safety activities

R James Aitken

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 545-546

Re-inventing the wheel?

Megan A Bohensky, Joseph E Ibrahim and David L Ranson

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 546

1928 Royal Commission “The fatalities at Bundaberg”

William Coote

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 546-547

Moving forward

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 547

Letters

Community and health-care associated non-multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Victoria

Benjamin P Howden, Elizabeth A Grabsch, Helen King, Maryza Graham, Paul D R Johnson, Tony M Korman, M Lindsay Grayson and Barrie C Mayall

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 548

No barriers to chlamydia testing in sexually active young women

Christopher K Fairley, Jane Hocking, Jane Gunn and Marcus Y Chen

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 548-549

Bisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw requires early detection and intervention

Simon D J Gibbs, John O'Grady, John F Seymour and H Miles Prince

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 549-550

Spinal cord injury register for football: already tackled?

Jesia G Berry, James E Harrison, Raymond A Cripps and Ruth Marshall

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 550

Spinal cord injury register for football: already tackled?

Thomas K F Taylor, David J Carmody, David A Parker, Myles R J Coolican and Robert G Cumming

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 550

Cancellation of operations on the day of intended surgery at a major Australian referral hospital

Roxanne L Wu

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 551

Cancellation of operations on the day of intended surgery at a major Australian referral hospital

John P Royle

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 551

Detection of diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclides by US homeland security: a new travel hazard

Jim R Stockigt, Zita E Ballok and Victor Kalff

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 552

Supplement

The Sustainability Of Primary Health Care Innovation

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): Open Access

Book review

Physicians’ values versus patients’ needs

Jill Gordon

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10):

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2005; 183 (10): 542

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