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Volume 184 Issue 12

19 June 2006

From the editor’s desk

Questioning medical education

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 594 Free

Editorials

Emergency department frequent flyers: unnecessary load or a lifeline?

Gordian W O Fulde and Martin Duffy

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 595

Killing the messenger: should scientific journals be responsible for policing scientific fraud?

Ana Marušić and Matko Marušić

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 596-597

The Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce: an Australian model for clinician governance

Graeme J Stewart, John M Dwyer and Kerry J Goulston

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 597-599

Hospital in the home: a concept under question

Gideon A Caplan

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 599-600

Should clinical software be regulated?

Enrico W Coiera and Johanna I Westbrook

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 600-601

Research

The effect of multidisciplinary case management on selected outcomes for frequent attenders at an emergency department

Georgina Ann Phillips, David S Brophy, Tracey J Weiland, Antony J Chenhall and Andrew W Dent

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 602-606 Free

Epilepsy in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Far North Queensland

John Archer and Ruth Bunby

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 607-610 Free

Postpartum anti-D: can we safely reduce the dose?

Bradley M Augustson, Elizabeth A Fong, Dianne E Grey, Janine I Davies and Wendy N Erber

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 611-613 Free

Ultrasonography in diagnosing colorectal cancers in patients presenting with abdominal distension

Shyr-Chyr Chen, Zui-Shen Yen, Hsiu-Po Wang, Chien-Chang Lee, Chiung-Yuan Hsu, Wen-Jone Chen, Chien-Yao Hsu, Hong-Shiee Lai, Fang-Yue Lin and Wei-Jao Chen

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 614-616 Free

Iodine status in pregnant women and their newborns: are our babies at risk of iodine deficiency?

Cheryl A Travers, Kamala Guttikonda, Carol A Norton, Peter R Lewis, Lyndall J Mollart, Veronica Wiley, Bridget Wilcken, Creswell J Eastman and Steven C Boyages

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 617-620 Free

Research enterprise

Predictors of publication: characteristics of submitted manuscripts associated with acceptance at major biomedical journals

Kirby P Lee, Elizabeth A Boyd, Jayna M Holroyd-Leduc, Peter Bacchetti and Lisa A Bero

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 621-626 Free

Clinical update

Challenges in the diagnosis of Marfan syndrome

Kim M Summers, Jennifer A West, Madelyn M Peterson, Denis Stark, James J McGill and Malcolm J West

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 627-631 Free

For debate

What can we learn from the Hwang and Sudbø affairs?

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 632-635 Free

Viewpoint

The repeating history of objections to the fortification of bread and alcohol: from iron filings to folic acid

Max Kamien

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 638-640 Free

Correction

The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments

Peter C Sprivulis, Julie-Ann Da Silva, Ian G Jacobs, Amanda R L Frazer and George A Jelinek

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 616

Obituary

Edwin Sinclair Young MB BS, FRANZCP

Paul Gerber

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 635 Free

Diagnostic dilemma

Slowly progressive cranial nerve palsies

Giles C Warner, Mitesh Gandhi and Benidict Panizza

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 641-643

Snapshot

Lower-back pain, intervertebral-disc calcification and scleral pigmentation

Aman Sharma, Shefali K Sharma, Ajay Wanchu, Manish Kumar, Surjit Singh and Pradeep Bambery

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 643 Free

Letters

Substance misuse in patients with acute mental illness

Cherrie Ann Galletly and Darryl P Watson

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 645

A call for help. Australia needs a standard emergency phone number in all hospitals

Gerald F Williams

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 645

“Positive” family planning: another personal viewpoint

Jane M Andrews

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 645-646

Adverse drug events: counting is not enough, action is needed

Graeme C Miller, Associate Professor and, Helena C Britt, Lisa Valenti and Stephanie Knox

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 646

Health services research in Hungary

Imre Boncz and Andor Sebestyén

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 646-647

The Research Quality Framework

E Malcolm Symonds

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 647

High-cost users of hospital beds in Western Australia

Chris Holmwood

Med J Aust 2006; 184 (12): 647

Book reviews

The eyes have it

Malcolm J Burvill

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Guide to paediatric trauma

Andrew J A Holland

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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